With the web expanding and
evolving at a faster pace, web services are getting more and more usable,
public and complex. The most used connection technology for these web services
is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA is the gathering of few services
that communicate with each other either in the coordination of two or more
services or in data transfer.
· Be devoid of trustworthiness and guarantee
· Inappropriate delivery of client’s input parameters
· Chances of manipulating the different parameters by Malevolent users to draw or use unauthorized information
· Absence of source code is a key challenge to white-box testing
· Web Services Testing Tasks
· Define the inputs and goals of testing
· Find which functionality of the service to be tested
· Develop the client or skeleton code
· Prepare the collected data for testing
· Check whether the actual outcome is parallel to that of the expected one
Web services provide a
standardized means for integrating web-based applications running on diverse
frameworks and platforms using XML, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web
Services Description Language (WSDL), and UDDI open standards over an internet protocol.
In general, a web service is
provided by an electronic device to another same device with World Wide Web as
a communicating media. And the primary elements of these services offer
genuine service and messaging. As more of the web services are dispersed over
various applications and networks, they must undergo testing to get rid of
additional risks in the areas of integration and interoperability. However, to
reduce overall testing efforts, we can go for Automation Web Services Testing.
Challenges faced by web services
· Be devoid of trustworthiness and guarantee
· Inappropriate delivery of client’s input parameters
· Chances of manipulating the different parameters by Malevolent users to draw or use unauthorized information
· Absence of source code is a key challenge to white-box testing
· Web Services Testing Tasks
· Define the inputs and goals of testing
· Find which functionality of the service to be tested
· Develop the client or skeleton code
· Prepare the collected data for testing
· Check whether the actual outcome is parallel to that of the expected one
Testing tools of web services
Testing tools of web services
such as ManageEngine, QEngine, SoapUI, TestMaker, WebInject toolsets etc. are
built on open source tools/libraries/frameworks and so help in reduction of overall
costs, initial coding efforts and enhance the automation efficiency. All these
play a key role in creating and execution of automated functional, compliance,
loading as well as the regression tests.