Web Service

10/28/15:

- Web service is considered as component testing in testing perspective
- Component level testing - Web Services include

1. Understanding WSDL
2. Mock Services based testing
3. Service Level Performance Testing

Note: Most of the free tools does not completely support Performance testing, due to tool limitations

- Web Service Testing with Quality of Services(QoS) - Web Services Security Testing
1. Service access is restricted using various policies (security, throttling)
2. WS-Security
3. WS-RM

- Web Services are software applications that can be:
1. Published using open standards(like XML or WSDL)
2. Searched/Located using Open statndards (like SOAP)
3. Invoked by other applications using open standards
4. Described using Open standards
5. Can be accessed on Internet/Intranet/extranet
6. use XML as language of communication
7. are connected by loosely coupled connections

Ex: Calculator Class deployed in a server and exposed as a Web Service


- Note: Web services could be with authentication or without. If you wanted to keep for specific you can have it authenticated only for those users and if you wanted make it open source then you can remove authentication on the web services. There are 3 types of web services when it comes to authentication.


- Webservices could be found in the following website:

http://soatest.parasoft.com/services/