Testing Web Services

Business Value…Achieved

Tes$ng  Web  Services  Steinn  ‘Stan’  Jónsson  QSI  Tech  Lunch  September  19,  2013  

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whoami  

•  Senior  Consultant  at  Quick  Solu$ons  

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whoami  -­‐  cont.  

•  Agility  

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Agenda  

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Agenda  -­‐  cont.  

• Will  also  briefly  show  two  Chrome  plugins  

Advanced  REST  client  

ModHeader  

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SoapUI  

•  Open  source  cross-­‐plaSorm  func$onal  tes$ng  solu$on  – SOAP  – REST  – JDBC  – JMS  – HTML  

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What  do  I  use  SoapUI  for?  

Probing          Mocking    (not  like  that)  

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Demo  Time  

(Screenshots  of  some  of  what  I  walked  through)  

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What  do  I  probe  for?  

•  Can  I  get  to  the  web  service?  – No  access  issues  or  proprietory  security  protocol  

•  Does  the  input/output  XML/JSON  look  ok?  

•  Does  the  service  return  valid  respones?  •  Does  the  service  handle  errors  in  a  meaningful  way?  

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JMeter  

•  Open  source  applica$on  designed  to  load  test  func$onal  behavior  and  measure  performance  – Web  -­‐  HTTP,  HTTPS  – SOAP  – JDBC  – LDAP  – JMS  – Mail  -­‐  SMTP(S),  POP3(S)  and  IMAP(S)  – Na$ve  commands  or  shell  scripts  

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What  do  I  use  JMeter  for?  

Smoke  tes$ng   Load  tes$ng   Performance  tes$ng  

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Demo  Time  

(Screenshots  of  some  of  what  I  walked  through)  

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JMeter  -­‐  Tips  

• When  running  load  tests:  – Make  sure  to  allocate  sufficient  memory  to  JMeter  

– Log/display  only  errors  •  Trust,  but  verify  – Have  seen  JMeter  report  faster  response  $mes  than  measured  in  web  service  

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REST-assured  

•  Java  DSL  for  easy  tes$ng  of  REST  services  – POST,  GET,  PUT,  DELETE,  HEAD  – Easy  to  validate  and  verify  response  

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What  do  I  use  REST-assured  for?  

Web  Service  Acceptance  Tes$ng   Run  frequently  as  part  of  CI  

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Demo  Time  

(Screenshots  of  some  of  what  I  walked  through)  

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Test  Automa$on  

•  Good  – Tests  read  in  test  data  from  external  configura$on  

•  Beder  – Tests  search  for  test  data  in  db  before  run  

•  Best  – Tests  populate  db  before  run  &  clean  up  aferwards  

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Summary  

•  Looked  at  3  free  tools  for  Web  Service  tes$ng  •  Showed  how  they  can  cover  most  of  your  Web  Service  tes$ng  needs  

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Ques$ons?  

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