Adnan Masood's Weblog! عدنان مسعود

Testing web services is a pivotal part of contemporary enterprise project life cycle; developers, QA and even system guys do it to validate different aspects of the middleware. This testing comes with its own set of challenges; Aside from being ineffective, testing complex types is not possible via the default browser based test client and WCF services don’t even offer it!. So what’s the remedy?

This webcast demonstrates web service studio and WCF Test client, two tools specifically designed to test web services without the need of writing custom test harnesses. Web Service Studio is a codeplex project is the revival of good old .NET Webservice Studio tool. Web Service Studio is a tool to invoke webmethods interactively. The user can provide a WSDL endpoint. On clicking button Get the tool fetches the WSDL, generates .NET proxy from the WSDL and displays the list of methods available. The user can choose any method and provide the required input parameters. On clicking Invoke the SOAP request is sent to the server and the response is parsed to display the return value. My intent is to further enhance it to add the support for WCF, Nullable Types and REST style API to allow a complete composite type testing from one tool. For details on WCF Test Client, please see my article here.

Webcast on Web Service Studio and WCF Test Client

References

http://www.codeplex.com/WebserviceStudio

www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCF35Utils.aspx