Testing of Web Services Using Manual Testing Approach

Abstract

In the modern world of technology, if you want to develop a software application you do not need to build each and everything from scratch in your application. There are lots of ready-made services available which you can implement into your application and you can start providing those services in your application. For example, if you want to display weather forecasting-related information you do not need to collect, process, and analyze the data in your application. You can buy the services from the people who already have built the application analyzing this type of data and maintaining it in a suitable manner. So, the Web services allow us to do these kinds of implementations. Web Services can be defined as the mechanism or the medium of communication through which two applications will exchange the data irrespective of their underline architecture and the technology. So this paper focuses on determining the various testing capabilities involved in the process of testing of web services and also the method of writing the test cases to test the web services using the concept of data variation and modification also called as Data Perturbation. The various capabilities includes the testing of SOAP messages, testing of WSDL files, and using WSDL files to generate test plans and lastly testing the published, find, and bind capabilities of web services.