Friday, 20 March 2009

Tools: Web Service Testing

A colleague put me onto a great free XML development tool called Liquid XML Studio. This is an incredible feature rich XML development tool that apart from developing XML, it allows you to test and build SOAP requests in such an easy manner that I couldn't imagine a developer or tester being without such a tool! Its another great tool to add to your arsenal of agile test tools.

Some of the useful features:
  • Web Service Call Composer
  • XPath Expression Builder
  • HTML Documentation Generation
  • XML Diff - Compare XML Files
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Integration (2005 & 2008)
  • XML Schema Editor
  • XML Data Binding
A great alternatives is soapui - This is an open source tool designed for web service testing. It allows you to inspect and invoke web services. This is a tool that has become a strong component of my current web test framework.

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