SoapUI Tutorial for Beginners (free version)

SoapUI is a a free open source tool to test web services. It can test both SOAP web services and RESTful web services. You can use SoapUI for both functional testing and performance testing of web services. Since SoapUI is written in Java, SoapUI is cross-platform meaning that it can run on multiple operating systems like Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

How to install SoapUI? The steps to install SoapUI free version are very simple. In order to install Soap ui tool, download the SoapUI installer from SoapUI official website. Double-click to run the installer. Select the destination folder, components, tutorials location, Start Menu folder and desktop icon and click Finish. You can see the actual installation of SoapUI on Windows and much more in my SoapUI tutorial for beginners. or read on...

What is JSON

Every now and then, you must have heard the term, JSON. Let us learn JSON. The JSON full form is JavaScript Object Notation. It is a format for data exchange. Other data interchange formats are CSV and XML. There are several JSON data value types like String, Number, Object etc. View my 10-minute JSON tutorial or read more on JSON data examples...

Web Services Tutorial

Let us start with an introduction to web services. What is web service? A web service is a software service provided by one device to another device using the web. Web services provide useful information like weather, stock market information, forex rates and many more. The web service runs as a software application on the web service provider. The technologies in which the web service provider and its' clients are written may be different. It does not matter because the communication between the web service provider and its' clients uses standard data formats like XML or JSON. Keep in mind that web services do not have a user interface.

What is Web Service

In the above example, a web server running on Linux provides a web service to a web server running on Windows, which then uses the response data in it's end-user interface. For this to happen, the web service client sends a request to the web service provider and the web service provider sends a response back to the web service client.

Want to learn more? View my 7-minute Web Services Tutorial or read on...