Web service unit testing

Question

I'm using JAX-WS web services (client and exposed services), is there any API to test these web services?

Answer 1

• test the services out of their "web-service" context.
• Use WSUnit to test consumers.
• take a look at this article

Unit tests are meant to test units of code. They should test business logic, and not infrastructure. So this is not exactly "unit-testing" if you want to test the services within the web-service context.

Answer 2

JAX-WS web services are annotated POJOs so you can unit test them (in isolation) using a regular unit testing framework (JUnit, TestNG) and Mocks.

Answer 3

For functional testing - you can use tools like soapUI (but I don't recommend this option because tests created with this tool are really hard to maintain). Other option (recommended) is using JUnit tests in which you create the service + client and exercise service methods. In our project we use Apache CXF and it works very well. It also supports JAX-WS.

For unit testing - "regular" JUnit, since generated service is Plain Java Object.