Chapter 13. Miscellaneous Topics

Starting from a sample hotel reservation application, we explored most of the key features provided by the world's leading web services testing tool, soapUI. At the beginning of the book, we discussed the key elements of a soapUI project such as TestSuites, TestCases, and TestSteps. Our discussions have not just been limited to functional testing. We looked into the use of soapUI in load and performance testing as well. Then, we moved forward with the topics such as web service simulation, RESTful services testing, JMS testing, JDBC testing, and test automation. In between, we discussed about the scripting capabilities of soapUI and the advanced web services testing topics, such as WS-Security.

There are some useful topics which we did not include in the previous chapters, but we believe they must be discussed separately before concluding the book. For example, most SOA developers and testers prefer to use soapUI directly from their preferred Integrated Development...