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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

Test automation

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_automation);

Test automation is the use of software to control the execution of tests, the comparison of actual outcomes to predicted outcomes, the setting up of test preconditions, and other test control and test reporting functions.

We do not want to stress the fact that manual execution of tests is an exhausting, time consuming, and tedious process. In modern agile projects, the separation between independent Quality Assurance teams and development teams has become too narrowed. Quality is not the sole responsibility of a separate QA team. Everyone in a project equally owns the quality of the deliverables and contributes to the testing process. Therefore, Quality Assurance is no longer an independent or isolated activity, which used to happen at the final phases of a product release. Instead, more rigorous and agile testing processes are becoming popular among software development teams. One of the reasons for adopting...