Performance Testing: Improvised Web Service Testing Tool

With today’s changing trends and technology the web services technology is one of the most significant web technologies. Due to the rapid popularization of web application i.e. web is evolving and expanding continuously and so are its services, the web application performance testing is gaining wide attention. Users interact with web services by means of Internet and as a result web services are getting more complex but are also easily accessible and usable by user. Hence, it is considered as an important topic in the field of software testing. This has motivated the web experts to propose different methods and different tools to test the new web services efficiently. In this paper we present a tool supported approach to perform efficient performance testing of a web service. This paper investigated open source web service testing tool Httprider for the lack of parameter i.e. throughput which is then added to it through the modification of the tool. Functional and non functional testing is done with the help of WSDL parsing and performance testing is performed by identifying the changes made thereafter.