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dhartford
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17 years ago

Way to test http parameter based response service

Trying to be careful with my terminology, as not sure if this is 'REST' or not.

Basically, I have a service over http that takes http parameters and returns a singular response.

http://localhost/myapp/helloname?fname= ... flintstone

raw response: "hello fred flintstone"  (no actual html, but it could).

The above simplifies my challenge, but the two questions (that I would like an answer to both):

1) How can you load-test the above with SoapUI (testing SOAP/WSDL webservices already, and want to compare load differences with the SAME tool, to compare apples to apples, if possible).

2) The above demonstrates I want to have a small transport of data/need for marshall-demarshall/processing as possible.  Is there a more formal/better approach over HTTP?

thanks! 
-D

p.s. first time using SoapUI, providing very easy to use and useful!.

1 Reply

  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
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    16 years ago
    Hello,

    1) I'm not quite sure what you are asking here, but soapUI provides load testing using different strategies (more info in the userguide). I didn't quite get what you wanted to compare this to though, could you elaborate this?

    2) Sure raw text (text/plain) is fine to use as a data format, given that your data is pretty simple. Another lightweight approach could be using JSON, which provides some structure without much overhead, and is pretty popular (and thus has a lot of library support). soapUI provides testing capabilities for JSON as well.


    Regards,
    Dain
    eviware.com