Service Mocking in SoapUI

Few days back I encountered a situation in my project, where we had to test a web service to which we were not having access to since it was at client’s side. So, we decided to create a simulation or approximation of the Web Service before the actual Web Service by using the SOAP Service [...]

Contract coverage report using SOAP UI

My previous project was with a Java Web Service Provider team. Being the service provider, it was very critical for us to keep the web services up and running. A little outage or bugs impact many groups’ work. Management came up with a requirement to know if our testcases are covering enough functional scenarios possible [...]

Tools and Frameworks for testing Web Services

In this blog I am going to explain what all tools are available in the market to test the SOAP/REST Web Services. What are the pros and cons of each of them and which tool can be used for which testing purpose? Recently I had an opportunity to test the implementation of Web Services of [...]

JavaScript client for web service using CXF

Recently, I was looking for a Java Script client to test my Web Services. After my recent findings on CXF, I found out that it can also create JavaScript clients using tools. Since existing tools had ANT support for generating JavaScript client and my current requirements was to use Maven. After not finding any such [...]

What made me to choose CXF over Axis2

My last assignment required me to expose soap based web service. While exploring I came to know that there are many types of web services, for example JBossWS, GlassFish Metro, Apache CXF, Axis1, Axis2 and likewise. All of them are widely used and were also promising to fulfill most of my requirements. Since I had [...]