How to check SOAP services?

Question

How do you guys test your SOAP services? Do you use tools like soapUI or write Unit Tests ? I just wanted to hear some opinions, what do you prefer, what are the advantages or disadvantages of both approaches? And if someone writes Unit Tests , can you give me an example how to write these ???

Edit: I developed many REST services that I have traditionally tested using JUnit and the REST Client Framework. Therefore, when the REST service was deployed, I was able to call these services using the JUnit Test using an http connection. Is there something similar in SOAP too? Does anyone have sample code for a SOAP client?

Answer 1

The best way to test your SOAP service is to use the SOAPUI testing tool.

With JDEF, you can build your SOAP application following SOAP standards, and then easily test it through the Enterprise Manager console provided by Oracle.

You just get an instance of this particular service, and then you see the audit flow.

Answer 2

I use both Junit for functional low-level testing of my functions and end code. And I use SOAPUI to test the web service. Also keep in mind that you can run SOAPUI tests from unit tests, as described here . Example:

 public void testRunner() throws Exception { SoapUITestCaseRunner runner = new SoapUITestCaseRunner(); runner.setProjectFile( "src/dist/sample-soapui-project.xml" ); runner.run(); } 

Answer 3

If you enjoy testing services, you can easily use the SOAPUI tool. But if you want to test the service functions, then or not, you need to edit the unit. This means that if you are the author of a web service, you may need to write unittests to test the functionality.

Answer 4

I use both. Basically JUnit for simple automated unit tests. And SoapUI for more complex system tests that do more than one web service call.

Answer 5

I wrote a small library that does most of the heavy lifting of unit testing SOAP services. Basically you get mockito mocks that are easy to work with.