Tuning and Testing Enterprise Web Services with SoapUI and JMeter
Introduction
In this article, I will talk about two test tools for the enterprise web services tuning and testing. These tools can be used to test performance, simulate heavy loads, test functional behavior, monitor servers, as well as find problems and troubleshoot issues with the servers by simulating client requests. Both tools are written in Java. They are free and open source.
The first tool Apache JMeter, is very powerful and has a very generic pluggable architecture which can be used to test a lot of technologies besides web services, such as Java Servlets, CGI scripts, Java objects, FTP servers , JMS, Databases, etc. But for the purposes of this article I’ll concentrate on the Web (SOAP) Web services testing aspect of the tool. The second tool, SoapUI is now fully mature and stable tool designed primarily for testing web services. It is also open source, but has a pro (paid) version as well. Both tools are very popular and I’ll cover some of the best features on both.
