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You're reading from Web Services Testing with soapUI Starting with an overview of SOA and web services testing, this guide take you through a number of hands-on exercises and projects to get you familiar with soapUI. A sure way to raise the quality of your web services.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849515665

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

SoapUI

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Charitha Kankanamge

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Web Services Testing with soapUI

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Web Services Testing and soapUI FREE CHAPTER

2. The Sample Project

3. First Steps with soapUI and Projects

4. Working with Your First TestSuite

5. Load and Performance Testing with soapUI

6. Web Service Simulation with soapUI

7. Advanced Functional Testing with soapUI

8. Getting Started with REST Testing

9. Testing Databases with soapUI

10. JMS Testing with soapUI

11. Extending soapUI with Scripting

12. Automated Testing with soapUI

13. Miscellaneous Topics

Index

Introduction to web services extensions

Web services extensions are used to provide additional capabilities to web services. For example, if we want to protect web services from unauthorized access, we can make use of the relevant web services extension. Web services extensions are usually governed by a set of specifications referred to as the WS-* standards. For example:

WS-Addressing
WS-Policy
WS-Security
WS-ReliableMessaging
WS-Discovery
WS-Transfer
WS-AtomicTransaction

There are different types of specifications which address various aspects of web services in order to extend the core features. These specifications are governed by various standard bodies such as W3C (http://www.w3.org/) and OASIS standards (https://www.oasis-open.org/standards).

Web service frameworks adhere to most of these specifications in order to be interoperable with each other. For example, Apache Axis2 implemented WS-Security specification; so, we can communicate with any service that is deployed on Axis2 via a .NET service...