SOASTA Concerto - Interesting tool for SOAP tetsing Options

[Georgi Rusev]

Checkout this site http://www.soasta.com/

The intended audience for the tool are testers, developers, business analysists and PSO engineers. The tool makes easy to functional and multiuser testing of webservices. For people not familiar with webservices, this is a tool to help you check communication on the protocol level, it is not an UI testing tool

I have watched their presentation, and it seems like their tool is interesting if you develop webservices. The tool has very nice interface, and the company targets it to people with little or now programming experience.

No free download however, but if you need the tool you can subscribe in their beta program.

[Lachezar Ribarov]

Another tool for testing Web Services - SOATest
The tool has a JAVA GUI and has lots of usability problems, but I'm sure that most of you will not take this into consideration having in mind that it has very rich functionality. As Parasoft say on their site: "An automated Web services testing product that allows users to verify all aspects of a Web service, from WSDL validation, to unit and functional testing of the client and server, to performance testing. "

You can use the tool for testing web services written in Java and you will experience some difficuties with web services written in .NET if different complex types and structures are used as parameters of your web methods.

The tool is not free, but you can download evaluation version here.