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Wed, 10 August 2005 09:33

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ada_nospam_m._No_softfab_Spam.com

Dear All,

I appologise in advance for posting to 2 newsgroups however I am unsure
which group would be dealing with this.

I work for the UK NHS & we're in the midst of a fairly large health care
project. A large part of this involves pushing XML messages about the
place via SOAP etc.

We end up it an interaction diagram which in essence looks like

System A System B
Message1 > Received
Received < Message2
Message3 > Received
Received < Message4

etc. showing the which XML messages are sent in which order.

We'd like to be able to automate the testing of this to a degree & are
in the midst of looking at creating some Eclipse plugins to cover the
entire lifecycle from inception through modeling to testing.

What I was wondering is that given the above can be fairly easily mapped
into an XML file we should be able to autocreate a testsuite from it (at
the very least at the schema checking level).

i.e. Supplier A sends us Message1 which we receive & test with a
schemachecker. We then want to reply with a test message conformant to
the schema of Message2 etc.

There might be a fairly lengthy conversation involving a fair few
different messages flying backwards & forwards. We want to be able to
produce a test report (at the very least for the schema compliance of
the messages received in the conversation) & we want to ensure that the
messages are received & sent in the right order etc.

I am wondering if there is anything within the TPTP or webtools which
can create the 2 relevant webservice stubs.

We might then at some point want to fit content checking & bouncing
(i.e. if this value should be returned, pull it out & put it into the
reply) etc. but that's someway down the road.

We'd want stubs for both sides of the conversation so we could check our
own replies before letting the test out into the wild for suppliers to use.

It should be possible using something like servlet filters as we are
only caring about the XML as an XML document (message/payload) & would
not need to test the outer layers of the onion (i.e. the soap layer, the
security layer etc).

TIA

Adam

Re: Web services testing. [message #31110 is a reply to message #26129]

Wed, 14 September 2005 08:34

Eclipse User

Hi Adam,
There is no function currently in TPTP to create web service stubs. WTP
should provide this function. TPTP does provide function for HTTP/URL
testing but protocol and/or API level web service based testing is provided
by various upstream products.

Paul

"Adam Flinton" <ada_nospam_m@_No_softfab_Spam.com> wrote in message
news:ddcvmn$kpu$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Dear All,
>
> I appologise in advance for posting to 2 newsgroups however I am unsure
> which group would be dealing with this.
>
> I work for the UK NHS & we're in the midst of a fairly large health care
> project. A large part of this involves pushing XML messages about the
> place via SOAP etc.
>
> We end up it an interaction diagram which in essence looks like
>
>
> System A System B
> Message1 > Received
> Received < Message2
> Message3 > Received
> Received < Message4
>
>
> etc. showing the which XML messages are sent in which order.
>
> We'd like to be able to automate the testing of this to a degree & are
> in the midst of looking at creating some Eclipse plugins to cover the
> entire lifecycle from inception through modeling to testing.
>
> What I was wondering is that given the above can be fairly easily mapped
> into an XML file we should be able to autocreate a testsuite from it (at
> the very least at the schema checking level).
>
> i.e. Supplier A sends us Message1 which we receive & test with a
> schemachecker. We then want to reply with a test message conformant to
> the schema of Message2 etc.
>
> There might be a fairly lengthy conversation involving a fair few
> different messages flying backwards & forwards. We want to be able to
> produce a test report (at the very least for the schema compliance of
> the messages received in the conversation) & we want to ensure that the
> messages are received & sent in the right order etc.
>
> I am wondering if there is anything within the TPTP or webtools which
> can create the 2 relevant webservice stubs.
>
> We might then at some point want to fit content checking & bouncing
> (i.e. if this value should be returned, pull it out & put it into the
> reply) etc. but that's someway down the road.
>
> We'd want stubs for both sides of the conversation so we could check our
> own replies before letting the test out into the wild for suppliers to
use.
>
> It should be possible using something like servlet filters as we are
> only caring about the XML as an XML document (message/payload) & would
> not need to test the outer layers of the onion (i.e. the soap layer, the
> security layer etc).
>
> TIA
>
> Adam

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