What tools are free tools are available for testing WebServices that are behind NTLM2 authentication.
SoapUI Is Excellent tool with all functionality that I need, however, it doesn't support NTLMv2. If someone has a way of making that work, please provide solution.
Throwing up a custom web service testing app ought to be a pretty simple thing to do...
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I am new to the Webservice Testing. Someone Can please answer the below Questions-
1) How to do WebServisce Testing without any SOAP UI.
2) If URL is not working but we have WSDL file, can Webservice testing be done?
Why not use soapUI? The open source version is free and has plenty of features. But, if you really must use something else there's Postman or you can go down to the code level in the programming language of your choice, such as CXF for Java.
Then, if you have a WSDL but it's not active, there are plenty of mocking tools (in soapUI and Postman), frameworks, and services (WireMock or Mockable) available.
I know, WCF Service is better then ASP.NET Web Service due to (a lot of reasons). But is it reasonable to use WCF service if everything you need is to have 3 simple methods, each of them with 2-3 parameters?
For me it seems like firing on birds with cannon.
Thanks a lot!
That a framework has features you don't need isn't a great reason not to use it. WCF will work great for a simple service of just a couple methods, and you'll have the flexibility of protocol bindings, extensibility, security, etc. there if you ever need it. That said, the 3.0 version of WCF did require a lot of intellectual overhead to get started; the team is working to reduce this and make it as easy as asmx to get started. If you can, use 4.0.
There are quite a few opinions out there on this. The most common theme that I come across is to your point, simple job/simple service. That being said I think it is pretty quick and easy to throw together a WCF service and have been converting any of our legacy ASMX services to WCF as they need updating, even the smaller ones.
I am a novice in web services. I am totally new to testing web services.
A new project demands that I test the web services, and the customer is in favor of any open source tool.
What is the approach to testing web services?
Also Please suggest a tool(with minimal scripting) to test web services?
Check out SoapUI - one of the best web service test tools - plus it's free!!
They also have a "Pro" version which costs - you can do more stuff, like load testing etc., but the free version is quite good enough for most of your testing, I'd say!
Given a WSDL (online or stored as file), it'll create stubs for each method, which you can then use to create requests (as XML), fill in the blanks (the parameter values), and then you can send off your request to the web service and see what comes back as a response.
SoapUI also allows you to write scripted tests than can be run over and over again.
Excellent tool - can't praise it enough!
Marc
Additionally you could use Firefox Poster in order to test your web service by passing XML-packets manually.
Check it here:
FF Poster
SoapUI is a great tool to test SOAP webservices. It allows you to test a SOAP client or a SOAP server.
Another very useful tool is Fiddler. Fiddler isn't necessarily aimed at testing webservices (it's a HTTP debugger), but since SOAP webservices run over HTTP, you can use it to testing. Another very important advantage of using Fiddler is the fact that you can test REST webservices also.
You might want to consider robot framework. It is a generic, keyword-driven testing framework. There are libraries for testing REST and SOAP based web services. It can also be used to test web pages (via a selenium library), databases, and a whole lot more.
robotframework has a ton of built-in keywords, and there are additional libraries that do much more. You are also able to develop your own keywords in python, java, .NET languages, or any other language.
We have a monolithic application written in Visual Dataflex, and various complementing applications written in other (.NET) languages. They all share the same database, and need to follow the same business logic. One way to facilitate unified business logic across these is to provide web services as an interface for testing.
Of course, for this to work, we need a good framework for testing web services. Any suggestions? For example, can Cucumber do this "out of the box"?
I'm assuming you're talking about Soap web services. You can use Soap4R to talk to a Soap web service. Wrapping this all up in Cucumber scenarios should work fine.
SoapUI is a pretty nice product for creating webservice tests, and they're easily callable via junit or just via the command line. It's also got some stuff for creating load tests as well.
They've got an opensource version as well as a professional version.
I'm beginning a project right now that will require a pretty extensive web back end. Of the different calling conventions, we have found that the easier and more cost effective approach is to build a standard SOAP web service.
So now, we are in the process of looking at the different web service frameworks in order to determine which will meet the business needs:
Security
Cost
Time
I've only worked with WCF, which I was fairly content with, but I would like to explore all other options before I make a definite decision. In your experience, what do you feel is the best web service framework?
Web Services Interoperability Technology (Java)?
WCF (.NET)?
ActionWebService (Ruby)?
On a side note, we need a framework that can securely be accessed via iPhones, Windows Mobile Devices, and Blackberries.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Chris
WCF can be used to make both SOAP and RESTful Web Services. Interoperability is guaranteed as long as you stick to standards. But the more standards you put on it, less platform can catch up. In that sense REST on Basic Auth over https would be very light weight. Also see WS-I Basic Profile. Java vs .NET would be matter of taste, I think. WCF is not perfect, but it mostly seems to do the job.
One thing to consider about WCF is that it has a very rich extensibility model. Anything it doesn't do out of the box, you can teach it to do, with little or no change to your basic service.