| Web services |
| Bringing the power of WebLOAD to web services |
Web Services consist of clients and servers that communicate using XML messages which adhere to SOAP standards. Web services are available through the web and enable you to turn applications into web applications that communicate more effectively with each other. The basic web services platform is based on XML and HTTP protocols.
With WebLOAD you can load test your web services on two levels: as part of a system test or as individual computing units.
Since web services are commonly implemented using the SOAP protocol over HTTP, no additional components are required to load test them with WebLOAD. WebLOAD`s built in support for HTTP also allows you to record and capture any web service traffic.
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| Load testing web services as part of a system test |
For each system test scenario, WebLOAD produces a script that can be read, parameterized and used for load testing the application. WebLOAD records the interaction on the protocol level and generates the different calls, whether they are for loading the page, following a link, or are triggered by an XML-HTTP object calling a Web Service returning XML or a JSON object.
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| Load testing web services as an individual computing unit |
WebLOAD can treat each Web Service as an individual application that can be tested separately. It allows to build an agenda using the service client proxy by supporting most common data and content types.
This kind of test can be considered as a functional test or an API test for the Web Service. It can be repeated each time the implementation is changed by the development team to ensure the contract (defined by the web service’s interface) is preserved.
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