soa testing

[bright]

Just to confirm, does Watir support SOA testing.

[Charley Baker]

No, Watir is a library to Automate browsers for web testing. That being said, Ruby has SOAP libraries(soap4r) that we're using quite extensively to test SOAP based services. The benefit of using a real language as opposed to VendorScript is that there are libraries for just about anything you'd want to do - XML, SOAP, databases, MQ, etc.


Charley Baker
blog: http://blog.charleybaker.org/
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct

[LFIdnl]

For testing SOAP I use SoapUI tool. http://www.soapui.org/ . You can
write unit-tests in it

[Chris McMahon]

On Mar 12, 8:31 am, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, Watir is a library to Automate browsers for web testing. That being
> said, Ruby has SOAP libraries(soap4r) that we're using quite extensively to
> test SOAP based services. The benefit of using a real language as opposed to
> VendorScript is that there are libraries for just about anything you'd want
> to do - XML, SOAP, databases, MQ, etc.

And net/http and json are awfully nice for REST/JSON testing. My
company has an extensive and powerful public REST API, and I poke
around in it a lot with net/http and json.

No browsers in sight.
-Chris

[Charley Baker]

Good point, we're moving some services in that direction as well. It's nice to deal with.

Charley Baker
blog: http://blog.charleybaker.org/
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct