Because the point of this column is the code in the client, I'll just build a dummy Web API service. My first method, which will be automatically called whenever an HTTP Get method without parameters ...

These three open-source Web service testing tools require a little more work, and I would recommend them for moderate-to-expert developers, where the learning curve would be only modestly longer than ...

One of the great promises of the Web services architecture is how it enables companies to build their own standard application programming interfaces (APIs) for everyone (and everything) that must ...

Testing in Web-based applications is complicated by several factors, such as a lack of cost-effective tools for both Web and Web-service testing, lack of flexibility in these tools, and the fact that ...

SOAP is the currency of the SOA marketplace – for now, anyway. Though SOAP’s significance may diminish as Web services evolve, its importance for the time being is unquestionable. Therefore, a ...

How to test service-oriented architectures is no idle question. A failure in a SOA system at Heathrow Airport’s $8.6 billion (U.S.) Terminal 5 caused £1.6 million ($3.2 million U.S.) in losses in one ...

Price Service There are several strategies for testing the price service; we can choose using mocks, stubs, or a service virtualization tooling like Hoverfly to test the full communication stack. We ...