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Testing Web Services

Stan  Jónsson  @sjonsson  

CodeMash  2014  

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whoami  

•  Senior  Consultant  at  Quick  Solu>ons  

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Agenda  

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Agenda  -­‐  cont.  

• Will  also  briefly  show  this  Chrome  plugin  

Advanced  REST  client  

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SoapUI  

•  Open  source  cross-­‐plaOorm  func>onal  tes>ng  solu>on  – SOAP  – REST  – JDBC  – JMS  – HTML  

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What  do  I  use  SoapUI  for?  

Probing          Mocking    

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Demo  Time  (Screenshots  of  some  of  what  I  walked  through)  

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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?  

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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  

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What  do  I  use  JMeter  for?  

Smoke  tes>ng   Load  tes>ng   Performance  tes>ng  

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Demo  Time  (Screenshots  of  some  of  what  I  walked  through)  

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JMeter  –  Con>nuous  Integra>on  

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REST-assured  

•  Java  DSL  for  easy  tes>ng  of  REST  services  – POST,  GET,  PUT,  DELETE,  HEAD  – Easy  to  validate  and  verify  response  

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What  do  I  use  REST-assured  for?  

Web  Service  Acceptance  Tes>ng   Run  frequently  as  part  of  CI  

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Demo  Time  (Screenshots  of  some  of  what  I  walked  through)  

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Test  Automa>on  

•  Good  – Tests  read  in  test  data  from  external  configura>on  

•  Becer  – Tests  search  for  test  data  in  db  before  run  

•  Best  – Tests  populate  db  before  run  &  clean  up  aeerwards  

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Ques>ons?  

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Summary  

•  Looked  at  various  free  Web  Service  tes>ng  tools  •  Showed  how  they  can  cover  most  of  your  Web  Service  tes>ng  needs  

@sjonsson  www.sjonsson.com    sjonsson@quicksolu>ons.com