Web Services

Unlike more traditional scripting tools, Qtest can take information from the service itself using WSDL (Web Services Definition Layer) and generate a check and test for the service using an intuitive graphical user interface. Qtest can be used throughout development and of course in the pre-production verification phase where it can simulate production scenarios to ensure that the Web services that make up the SOA are both high performance and robust.

Qtest builds a test using the WSDL from the Web service which can be either extracted from the Web server itself or from a file. On the screenshot, the functions provided by the web service are listed on the left side of the screen. The scenario containing the list of functions which must be tested is displayed on its right hand side. The function parameters can be modified in a intuitive way.

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The Web services tests that we have created can be used to generate load in exactly the same way as standard recorded Qtest tests. All the results, reporting and anomaly detection capabilities of Qtest can still be used to quickly produce results and help diagnose performance bottlenecks.