Software Testing

How to test a web service

Get to know:
- What is a web service?
- Introduction to a sample web service
- How to test a web service?
 What is Web Service?
• Web service is a standardized medium to
propagate communication between the client and
server applications on the World Wide Web.
• A web service is a software module which is
designed to perform a certain set of tasks.
• Web service also call Web API, they support for
mobile application or SOA (Software Oriented
Architecture).
• Web Service can communicate with other system
by XML or JSON.
Web Service Architect
 XML
• XML stands for eXtensible Markup language. XML plays
an important role in many different IT systems. XML is
often used for distributing data over the Internet.
 JSON
• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a
lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for
humans to read and write. It is easy for
machines to parse and generate.
• JSON for Credit Card:
 Web Service Methods
HTTP Verb CRUD
GET Read
POST Create
PUT Update/Replace
DELETE Delete

Depend on the method of web services you have

different ways to test them.
Introduction to a Web Service
Payment Gateway Web Service
• This is a web service designed to simulate
online payment services via credit cards
that are widely used on current e-
commerce sites.
• To easier to test, we have added some
more web services like list credit card, list
payment ...
 List of services
• Payment Gateway web service methods:
– addPayment(Payment): payment service.
– creditCardList(): list all credit cards
– paymentList(): list of payments.
– paymentByDate?paymentDate =2019-05-07
– paymentByCardNumber?cardNumber
=1000100010001000
• See the document to get to know more details.
How to test a web service?
 How to test a web service?
• Because web service don’t have UI, so you need
a tool to test web service function.
• You can use Postman tool to test web service
function.
• Do step by step follow the document to test web
service.
Postman app
Test Get methods
Test Post Methods
Test Post Methods (Cont.)
 Practice
• Write test case for addPayment service
then run this test case and report bug for
them.
Q&A