Mock web service

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Hi,

We have two components: enterprise application X, and Web service Y

We want to make our (automated) testing tool that will test application X (that interact with Y) only, and we have not the web service Y available.

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The testing tool will be a desktop application.
We Don't want to use another external tools-e.g. SoapUI- for testing (as we want to automate the testing by running one application).

The question is: How we can mock the web service Y in our testing -desktop- application? Does it is easy to mock it by Socket programming, or any other method/library?

Thanks in advance,

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The best solution is to let application X talk to Web service Y using an interface, such as IWebServiceY.

Coupled with Dependency Injection, this allows you to inject a mock of IWebServiceY into application X instead of the real, web service-based implementation of Web Service Y.

Mark Seemann 2010-02-10 09:12:30

but currently we have no modification access to application X, we should test it only as it is.

Moro 2010-02-10 09:16:22

I was going to write something but then I saw this. I was going to write the same thing with different words, that is:Create a base class objInteractCreate an inherited class from objInteract that actually pokes the web service. Pass it in on the constructor whenever you'll need it.Create a 2nd inherited class that returns canned data. In test mode, pass in a pointer to that object on construction.

Matthew Heusser 2010-02-11 01:42:50

+2 A:

I found a solution in Java 6

web-services-without-ee-containers

thanks

Moro 2010-02-10 12:28:18

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