Slides from a talk I gave on Testing Web Services at QSI Tech Lunch on September 19, and will be repeating at the 2013 Columbus Code Camp.

1. Business Value…Achieved
Tes$ng
Web
Services
Steinn
‘Stan’
Jónsson
QSI
Tech
Lunch
September
19,
2013

2. Business Value…Achieved
whoami
• Senior
Consultant
at
Quick
Solu$ons

3. Business Value…Achieved
whoami
-­‐
cont.
• Agility



4. Business Value…Achieved
Agenda

5. Business Value…Achieved
Agenda
-­‐
cont.
• Will
also
briefly
show
two
Chrome
plugins
Advanced
REST
client
ModHeader

6. Business Value…Achieved
SoapUI
• Open
source
cross-­‐plaSorm
func$onal
tes$ng
solu$on
– SOAP
– REST
– JDBC
– JMS
– HTML

7. Business Value…Achieved
What
do
I
use
SoapUI
for?
Probing
Mocking
(not
like
that)

8. Business Value…Achieved
Demo
Time
(Screenshots
of
some
of
what
I
walked
through)

15. Business Value…Achieved
What
do
I
probe
for?
• Can
I
get
to
the
web
service?
– No
access
issues
or
proprietory
security
protocol
• Does
the
input/output
XML/JSON
look
ok?
• Does
the
service
return
valid
respones?
• Does
the
service
handle
errors
in
a
meaningful
way?

16. Business Value…Achieved
JMeter
• Open
source
applica$on
designed
to
load
test
func$onal
behavior
and
measure
performance
– Web
-­‐
HTTP,
HTTPS
– SOAP
– JDBC
– LDAP
– JMS
– Mail
-­‐
SMTP(S),
POP3(S)
and
IMAP(S)
– Na$ve
commands
or
shell
scripts

17. Business Value…Achieved
What
do
I
use
JMeter
for?
Smoke
tes$ng
Load
tes$ng
Performance
tes$ng

18. Business Value…Achieved
Demo
Time
(Screenshots
of
some
of
what
I
walked
through)

29. Business Value…Achieved
JMeter
-­‐
Tips
• When
running
load
tests:
– Make
sure
to
allocate
sufficient
memory
to
JMeter
– Log/display
only
errors
• Trust,
but
verify
– Have
seen
JMeter
report
faster
response
$mes
than
measured
in
web
service

30. Business Value…Achieved
REST-assured
• Java
DSL
for
easy
tes$ng
of
REST
services
– POST,
GET,
PUT,
DELETE,
HEAD
– Easy
to
validate
and
verify
response

31. Business Value…Achieved
What
do
I
use
REST-assured
for?
Web
Service
Acceptance
Tes$ng
Run
frequently
as
part
of
CI

32. Business Value…Achieved
Demo
Time
(Screenshots
of
some
of
what
I
walked
through)

37. Business Value…Achieved
Test
Automa$on
• Good
– Tests
read
in
test
data
from
external
configura$on
• Beder
– Tests
search
for
test
data
in
db
before
run
• Best
– Tests
populate
db
before
run
&
clean
up
aferwards

38. Business Value…Achieved
Summary
• Looked
at
3
free
tools
for
Web
Service
tes$ng
• Showed
how
they
can
cover
most
of
your
Web
Service
tes$ng
needs

39. Business Value…Achieved
Ques$ons?
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