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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

Chapter 3. First Steps with soapUI and Projects

As we have completed building our sample web services project, it is time to discover the testing aspects of web services with soapUI. In this chapter, we will look into the basics of web services testing using the features provided by soapUI. We plan to cover the following topics in this chapter:

Detailed study of the sample guest management web service
How to build a soapUI project to invoke operations of the sample service
Study SOAP requests, responses, and faults using the sample service

Invoking web services through soapUI is pretty straightforward as compared to most of the other alternative tools such as Apache JMeter. What we will be focused on is how soapUI features can be utilized in an effective manner so that we can achieve the maximum test coverage in web services testing. In order to fulfill our objectives, it is essential to have a good understanding about the functional aspects of the web services which are going to be tested,...