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WSIO unveils testing tools for WS

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BANGALORE: The Web Services Interoperability Organization announced the availability of software tools for testing the interoperability of Web services. Said an online report.

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The final versions of the Communication Monitor and Profile Analyzer are available on the group's Web site, where developers can download testing tools for all Web services platform. The announcement was made at the WS-I Spring Community Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.

These testing tools, along with the recently released Basic Profile 1.0 and Sample Applications 1.0, will help developers ensure that their Web services meet the WS-I interoperability guidelines and will provide customers with the confidence they need to successfully deploy Web services, informed Tom Glover, president and chairman of WS-I.

The Communication Monitor can capture messages exchanged with Web services, and store these messages for analysis by the Profile Analyzer, which can evaluate these messages and validate the description and registration artifacts of the Web service, the report said.

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The artifacts include the WSDL documents that describes the Web service, the XML schema files that describe the data types used in the WSDL service definition, and the UDDI registration entries. More than 300 test cases have been written and automated for the analyzer tool. Each test case exercises between 50 and 90 test procedures.

The WS-I is an open industry organization formed to promote consistent and reliable interoperability among Web services, irrespective of the platform.

 



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