We're developingseveral developing several SOAP-based web services, which are for the most part stateless query-based services which allow for a simple and straightforward test plan. Current tests areas test realms are:
Functionality
A range of known good and bad queries will be made; output should be functionally invariant, although if any of the backend data relevant to one of the canned queries changes there will obviously be variance. The goal here is to detect a crash in any of the backend mechanisms or massive database hosage.
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