Design of Web Services Testing Tool

Software testing is one of the most important techniques used to assure the quality of Web services. With the increase of the popularity of Web services, more and more Web applications are developed with this technique. This new way of software development brings about new issues for software testing, which has been widely recognized as a realistic means for ensuring the quality of software systems. Web Services testing is essential to achieve the goal of scalable, robust and successful Web Services especially in business environment where maybe exist hundreds of Web Services working together. In this paper, we give detailed explanation about the Web Services testing methodology and skill, which are very helpful to the testers. Compared with traditional programming testing, the Web Services testing have its own feature such as performance, authorization, and security. Based on the knowledge of the aspects of Web Services, we design and implement a testing tool to perform some tests automatically. This Web Services Testing tool automates the load testing of Web services before they are put into production. It can test Web Services that expose their functionality via SOAP interfaces. With an easy to use interface, the user can quickly generate test scripts from a WSDL document and verify the actual SOAP responses with the expected response.