Tools for testing web services

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Hi

On to the web i saw some tools like SOAP UI for testing Webservices .Please tell me what does it mean by testing Web services .

My question is that i can write a client for testing my web services , why to use a tool for that purpose ??


please share your ideas .

Thank you .

[Hany Shafik]

I guess It is much faster to test my webservice using soap ui than to generate a client and write code in order to test it, so it accelerate my development.
However I use soap ui when I have interoperability between .net and java or mismatch between the wsdl and the stub generated, So it is important for me to check the message sent and received at the xml and soap level in order to check conformance.

[Ravi Kiran Va]

That makes sense .Thank you very much .

[William Brogden]

You can also take a recorded request and introduce an error to test the service error responses. Deliberately creating errors with client software is quite difficult and impossible for some kinds of errors.

Bill