Web Services Testing is testing of Web services and its Protocols like SOAP & REST. To test a Webservice you can
<!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->Test Manually
<!--[if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->Create your own Automation Code
<!--[if !supportLists]-->3. <!--[endif]-->Use an off-the shelf automation tool like SoapUI.
WebService Testing involves following steps -
<!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->Understand the WSDL file
<!--[if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->Determine the operations that particular web service provides
<!--[if !supportLists]-->3. <!--[endif]-->Determine the XML request format which we need to send
<!--[if !supportLists]-->4. <!--[endif]-->Determine the response XML format
<!--[if !supportLists]-->5. <!--[endif]-->Using a tool or writing code to send request and validate the response
Suppose we want to test a WebService which provides Currency Conversion Facility. It will the current conversion rates between the different countries currency. This service we can use in our applications to convert the values from one currency to the other currency.
