Tests frameworks and tools for SOA Java developments

Question

Currently, I'm looking for any experiences or advices about test tools on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Java developments.
Which the bestpratices and best tools for this job ?

Thanks for your time

Answer 1

SOAPUI is a very handy tool

www.soapui.org

I think that you can use it to generate junit tests but you can generate and run a test suite for a given wsdl

Answer 2

My advice would be separate the functionality from the transport (the webservice in your case) and test just the functionality.

As you're unlikely to be rolling your own transport layer I think it's safe enough (these days) to assume that will work as intended but make sure you do integration tests as the potential for interop issues still exist.

Answer 3

I find SoapUI fairly handy for exploratory testing; they've recently added REST support, although I haven't played with that in detail. It's also useful for testing performed by QA staff who aren't ready to write tests in a programming language.

That said, for my own needs, I'd use JUnit and a web-service-invoking client library of some kind for consistency. That client library could be your own, or a simply just a library that knows how to invoke on that kind of web service.