Collaboration: At the Extremities of Extreme
Jason Ayers share the observations he made watching a team of developers collaborating in real time on the same code base, pushing XP, pair programming and continuous integration to their extremes.
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Posted by Stefan Tilkov on Jun 11, 2007
Hi There/Stefan,
Seems to be an useful tool. I've used my home grown xml utilities for command line validation of xml files.
command line usage : I recently came across validate-xml.jar from woodstox "xml Processor" project. This seems to be a decent tool that points out where in an xml file a warning/error lies -- sort of like a compiler output.
It would be nice to have a good WebServices/SOAP Unit Testing tool for the java world. Is there one ? I will be working on a project where I will be developing(exposing) some web services as well as consuming some. It will be nice to have a tool that will test my webservices before the actual client interop tests. What will be nice is to have
a) a command-line client to test some basic webservices functionality like validity, list operations, etc
b) something like XMLUnit which helps in junit/TestNG unit tests.
What do people in the .NET world do ?
Thanks
BR,
~A
Anjan,
0. Ant has <schemavalidate> to check XSD files; Jing has a relax NG validation task.
1. You can use XMLUnit under TestNG as well as JUnit.
2. SOAP testing? Why would we need to test SOAP? I dont think its really time to improve the testing/debug facilities in SOAP land, because after so many years, you still end up using a TCP trace tool to work out why your messages arent being understood by the far end. Better to start working on the tools we need to make testing RESTy systems easier.
Sorry :)
-Steve
Steve Loughran,
Ant development team,
Author of Ant in Action
</schemavalidate>
as for SOAP specific testing tools, I'm not aware of any.
People in the .NET world use NUnit or MBUnit (very few may use Team Test) - together with XMLUnit for .NET, I hope.
soapUI worked pretty good for testing our webservices. Tests can be extended with groovy scripts for automatic input/output transitions between test steps
...because xml tags are interpreted by the browser :/ If anybody has better 'viewing experience', then please tell me what app do you use (I tried Firefox 2.0, IE6 and Opera 9.02)
SoapUI is extremely good.
I have the same question. I can get to the XML by using "View Source", but as you say it's cumbersome. Firefox 5.0 is not doing any better. Can't blame the browser... InfoQ is outputting the XML unescaped, as if it were part of the HTML. :-S
Could an editor please format the XML code properly?
Hi,
Not sure if this thread is still active.
iam using Xmlunit to compare xml strings,
Diff diff = new Diff(actualXML, expectedXML);
the comparison fails for similar xml's if they contain special characters in them (eg: both the xml's have "abc-xyz").
Is there any way to ignore special characters while comapring?.
Thanks in advance
Shireesh
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