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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

Mock services with soapUI

We briefly discussed service mocking in general and the purpose and objectives of service simulation. Now, it is time to apply the theory into practice. As we did in previous chapters, we will explore the soapUI service mocking features by simulating web services in our sample Hotel Reservation System.

soapUI allows you to create a simulation of the web service from its WSDL. This simulation is known in a soapUI project as a MockService. A consumer application can connect to the MockService as if it is the real web service.

Suppose one of the web services of our sample Hotel Reservation System are consumed by some other service-oriented solution. Let's call this solution solution B for simplicity. The solution B is almost done whereas the services of our Hotel Reservation System are still being implemented. The quality assurance team of solution B follows an agile testing approach and they do not wish to wait until all services of the Hotel Reservation System are...