1. Web Service Testing With .Net
Web Service Testing With .Net
Troy Walsh

2. Overview Web service primer Web service testing tools
Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client overview
Basic usage
Deep dive
Takeaways
Questions
References

3. What is a Web Service
Machine to machine communication using web technologies
Client
Client
Web Server
Client
Client
Client

4. Request Request URI (Universal Resource Identifier) Header Method
Service endpoint
*Query string
Header
Method
Get
Post/Put
Delete
*Content/media types
*Body

5. Response
Response
Status
Code
Description
Header
*Body

6. Web Service Call
Header
Body
Web Server
Client
Header
Status
Body

7. Web Service Clients Popular clients Ready! API (Java based tool)
RESTClient (Firefox add-in)
Advanced REST client (Chrome extension)
Fiddler, Wireshark (diagnostic tools)
Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client (C# library)
Plus more

8. Why Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client
Real world usage
Supported by Microsoft
.Net
Serialization
Licensing/cost
Available via Nuget
“Easy” to work with

9. Why Not Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client
Already invested in another tool
Not a .Net shop
Requires development skill
Extra work to do negative testing

10. Basic Usage // Setup http client HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("text/plain"));
// Send the request and get back the response
HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync("/api/String/1").Result;
string result = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

11. Deep Dive Basic setup Data driving Framework buildout Serialization
Models
Media type formatters
Async
Configuration
Parallelization

12. Takeaways Powerful Requires development Not right for every project
.Net
Serialization
Parallelization
Requires development
Not right for every project

13. Questions?

14. References
a-net-client
mstest.html
web-api