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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

WADL

WADL is designed to provide a machine process-able description of HTTP-based web applications. We can find more information about WADL in the latest version of the W3C submission of the WADL specification at http://www.w3.org/Submission/wadl/.

We discussed WSDL when we first looked into the SOAP based web services. Though WSDL can be used to describe SOAP-based web services in a comprehensive manner, it has limitations with HTTP operations such as PUT and DELETE, among others. As REST services often deal with HTTP methods, WSDL is not a good option for documenting RESTful services. More precisely, WSDL 1.1 is not a good choice for RESTful services. Later on, WSDL 2.0 specification was launched to address the concerns encountered with WSDL 1.1, and it provides better support for RESTful services over WSDL 1.1.

WADL can be considered as an alternative to WSDL 2.0. WADL is lightweight and easier to understand than the WSDL specification. Hence, it is much appropriate for documenting RESTful...