Hi Bill, the Component Test Edition of SilkPerformer includes 2 graphical tools for testing web services. One is written in Java (JavaExplorer) the other one in .NET (DotNetExplorer).
Both are aimed at QA people for point-and-click assembling of test cases. You can start by entering the url of a wsdl document. Client stubs are generated in the background and you can call methods of the web service. Once you have your test case complete, you can export it as a SilkPerformer project for load testing, as a JUnit test or as a Java standalone class. You do not need a gui for your web service. Hope this helps, Christian -----Original Message----- From: Heitzeg, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 04. Februar 2004 16:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Web Services testing >From what I understand SoapScope is a monitor service. I actually have an eval version of it. I have a full web service, with a WSDL. I'm looking for a tool that QA person can use to do functional testing, regression testing, and possibly load testing (although we have something we wrote that does that). It needs to be fairly simple to use. Again, we don't have a GUI and won't have one. I know a lot of people use Web Application testing tools to test web services because they build a GUI on the front end, but we won't, we're a back-end provider of services. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Ben Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Web Services testing It might be slightly too technical but how about SOAPScope 3? I don't know if this contains the Scope-It functionality of "TRY IT" on www.xmethods.net but I would assume so. This builds the wsdl, generates proxies and can test the service. SoapScope: http://www.mindreef.com/products/overview.html Benjamin Heitzeg, Bill wrote: >Thanks Christian, > I looked at this previously, but it doesn't appear to do Web Services testing. I don't have a GUI. I need automated testing that can start with a wsdl and then generate the appropriate proxy which can then be used to test the service. > >Bill > >-----Original Message----- >From: Christian Hummer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:22 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Web Services testing > > > >http://www.segue.com/html/s_solutions/s_silkperformer_component_test/s_inde x >.htm > >Christian > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Heitzeg, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Mittwoch, 04. Februar 2004 14:57 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Web Services testing > > >Hello, > >Does anyone have a recommendation for a good testing tool. I'm looking for >a testing tool that a QA person can run, not a programmer. > >Bill Heitzeg > > > >