Tool for automatic testing of Web Services

The Web Services technology has received a significant amount of attention in recent years because it allows to easily utilize and integrate existing software applications to create new business services. With the increase of interest and popularity of Web Services, Web applications are developed. This way of software development causes new issues for Web Service testing to ensure the quality of service that are published. This paper describes the tool (named WSDLTest) for automatic testing of Web services. The tool can be used for testing of Web services for which WSDL 1.1 or WSDL 2.0 document are available. WSDLTest parses the WSDL document, and based on, it tests the Web service by sending automatically generated messages. Some examples of the usage of our tool are given.