Web services have become an integral part of many websites and products we have been called on to test. Testing the functionality of the application is still the straight forward method that we propose in our standard training–even if web services may require a small amount of harness building.
Service oriented applications may have data which extends beyond the display layer, such as messages which initiate a new process or procedure. Testing those messages without a back end, code driven tool can present quite a challenge.
Most testers just want to get to testing, and would like to avoid generating an application which has to be re written each time the process or data changes. To facilitate this, SmarteSoft currently recommends creating a simple form that accesses the WSDL from the server. This simple piece of HTML will provide for the inputs as well as the outputs. As this service page is created it will allow for both functional testing of the web service, as well as load testing.
Tags: service-oriented applications, SmarteScript, WSDL Automated Functional Testing
Your article is very helpful. Possibly will you please post some modern information about this? take care
Great article, I just jumped across it going through Reddit. Im a bit late though, I mean months late since you posted lol.
Whilst researching creating a simple website, I came across a number of websites that deal with this subject. It was interesting to read their views on creating a simple website but they weren’t all quite as emotive as WSDL Automated Functional Testing with SmarteScript « SmarteSoft.