how to test web services manually

How to test Web services? throw data at it? Manually create requests to it, or use a test harness?

Plz

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Permalink Reply by R Pal on February 18, 2010 at 1:52pm

Web services in .Net environment utilizes SAO at the client end, passes through SAO process and received at the server end again through SAO. In the client end, the data is prepared in XML format and in the receiving end also the data is recieved in form of XML.

To test where the data input, transmission and receipt are correct, understand the format in which XML framework is maintained. Also understand the business functionality of the application. For the application specialist also, he is blind about the transmission process as it is designed by Microsoft. For you it is pure black box to test the data going from the client to server through XML. Therefore database testing along with business functionality testing is done.

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Permalink Reply by Shakthi on February 18, 2010 at 7:05pm

@ R Pal

Could u plz explain SAO ?

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Permalink Reply by Ravindra Kulkarni on February 18, 2010 at 2:08pm

Using iTKO LISA OR SOAP UI.

Get an input XML from Developers & place the values according to DATABASE & RELATED ENVIRONMENT

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Permalink Reply by omjsr on February 18, 2010 at 2:49pm

Yes you can use Soap UI for the testing of web services also you can ask development team to create a interface so that you can throw data in the web service.