Functional Quality Testing for SOA / WebServices

As the number of services is growing in our environment, the need for automatic regression/functional testing is increasing.  I have recenly encountered articles on IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality. It is nice tool, but having budget contraints we will have to build something on our own.

First thing that comes to mind to use Ant ant Junit tests that would be able to send SOAP and test results against expected XMLs. And quick search reveals IBM’s recent article on that topic:

 Testing SOA applications with WebSphere Integration Developer and Ant scripts

Also so far we have been using SOAPUI for our initial and integration unit testing, it would be nice to re-use existing SOAPUI projects in Continous Integration scripts and also expand them not only to send and receive results, but verify results against predefined set of results. Researching few articles on this theme: 

 Testing Web Services with SoapUI

Series of articles on continuous integration (CI), SoapUI and Groovy:
Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI – Part 1
Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI – Part 2
Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI – Part 3