How can i test wcf service

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Darin Dimitrov Darin Dimitrov k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I'm looking for more than just web services, we're using a lot of net. Don't the http bindings provide the same data and interface and the TCP bindings? If so, why do the TCP bindings need to be tested separately? Show 1 more comment. John Saunders John Saunders k 24 24 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

John, I am using SoapUI in continuous integration builds every day: soapui. Thanks for posting that. If you use jUnit to test WCF services, then you should blog that somewhere. Most people would not use Java to test. NET code. I didn't mention I use JUnit. With SoapUI you can write web tests and define expectations. These tests can be run on the command line and the results will be written to a standard text file which can be interpreted during the build.

I followed the URL you posted, and it looked like it created jUnit tests. Again, I would love to see an article or blog post on this. I recommend soapUI for "playing around" with services; I'd be glad to recommend it for testing, if I saw how that could be done.

I have to agree with Darin -- SoapUI has a command-line runner, and there's absolutely nothing that would prevent its use in a CI environment. Show 3 more comments.

WCFStorm is useful to test the way you're describing. Kirsten Pasha Kirsten Pasha 51 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Added some more detail about debugging — user Together with conventional "service unit tests" that call the service interfaces directly, mocking out the domain tier, we also have "service self-host tests" that host the service in the unit test framework but which also mock out the domain tier. These are kind of a mix between integration tests and unit tests - but they prove our marshalling and serialization is working properly, something otherwise tricky to pull off.

Clangon Clangon 1, 2 2 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. It's a. Double-click any of the items to display the content of the file in a new tabbed window in the right pane. To view the test parameters, double-click an operation to open it in the right pane. The parameters are showed in Formatted view by default, and you can enter arbitrary values for the parameters to test the service. To send them to the service, click Invoke.

For a DataSet parameter, click the … button next to Edit… to edit it in a new window showing the DataGrid. If the schema of the DataSet object is unknown upon the first edit, the DataGrid is empty. You have to paste a DataSet object with the same schema into the current object in the DataGrid. Notice that you need to copy the schema from somewhere else before the paste operation. You can also copy a Dataset object for future usage by clicking the Copy DataSet button.

If the expected return value is a string, the result will be displayed as a quoted string even though the input provided was not in quotes. If you specified a particular operation as one-way when you created the contract for the service, no service response is displayed.

As soon as the message is queued for delivery, a dialog box pops up to notify you that the message was successfully sent. The Start a new proxy check box in a service operation's tab enables you to toggle session support. This box is cleared by default. When you enter test parameters for a specific operation or another operation in the same service endpoint and click Invoke multiple times with the check box cleared, these operations share one proxy and the service status is persisted across multiple operations.

If the Start a new proxy check box is checked, a new proxy is started for each Invoke , the previous session scenario is ended, and the service status is reset. Double-click any of the items to display the contents of the file in the right pane.

Service Configuration Editor is launched with the client configuration content. You can edit the configuration and save it within the tool. After saving the file in Service Configuration Editor, WCF Test Client displays a warning message to inform you that the file has been modified outside and asks whether you would like to reload it.

If you select Yes , the configuration content in the "Client. If you select No , the configuration content in the "Client. Great tutorial. Toggle navigation. Home About Contact Register Log in. Select the WCF service library. Now we will add our new product service by adding ServiceContract.

Add new interface to the project by right clicking project in solution explorer — select Add- New Item- Interface. Add using statement using System. ServiceModel to IProducts.

Mark the interface as ServiceContracts. Linq; using System. Descendants "DocumentElement". Descendants "Products" where result. Element "productID". ToString select result. Element "productname". Element "UnitsInStock". Element "CategoryName".