• Understand the Service-Oriented Architecture, its Principles and Benefits

• Get a grip on the hyped topic of “SOA is not WebServices”

• Understand WebServices, the most significant implementation model for SOA
• Get a refresher on XML
• Understand the differences between Traditional testing methods and the
paradigms needed for testing WebServices
• Understand the key characteristics of WebServices
• Explore different aspects of WSDL
• Explore different Test Strategies for SOA-based applications
• SOA Testing and Open source Tools
• Understand functional testing, compliance testing and load testing of WebServices
• Identify bug-finding ideas in testing WebServices

Service Oriented Practical session on testing

Architecture web services
Discussions
What is SOA
SOA Vs Traditional Testing Web Services
Applications Overview of the Test
SOA Principles Process for Web-services
Who is using SOA? Introduction to SOAPUI
Key challenges facing SOA General defects to look for

SOA Testing Functional testing of Web

Introduction Services using SOAPUI
Differences from Using WSDL as the starting
conventional testing point to create tests
Challenges to be addressed Building service requests

Refresher on XML
Introduction
Well-formedness Vs
Validity
XML DTD, XML Schema
and a little bit about Parsers
Creating and Maintaining
XML files
XML and Tool support
Functional testing of Web
Services using SOAPUI
(continued)
Process testing of the steps
in a business process
Web Service Test Assertions
Data-driven testing in
SOAPUI

Understanding WSDL Groovy and SOAPUI

WSDL and WebServices Read data from an external
Services data source and write it to
Ports another steps properties
Binding and operations Control TestCase flow
Port Type and operations based on outcome of some
Messages previous step or external
Retrieving and invocation
Viewing/Inspecting WSDL Trigger the execution of
files other TestSteps and/or
TestCases

Performance testing of
Web Services
Load testing strategies for
Web services in SOAPUI
(Simple, Variance, Burst,
Thread)
Running a load test
Result analysis and
graphing