Summary
RESTful web services are a lightweight alternative to SOAP-based services. Due to popularity and high demand of public API offerings such as Twitter and Google, the RESTful services have become a key ingredient in web application development. In this chapter, we looked into the testing aspects of RESTful web services using soapUI. Deviating from our sample hotel reservation application, which is purely SOAP based web service implementation, we used a public API offering hosted at the Google developers portal as the sample RESTful service. We went through some fundamentals of REST theory and proceeded with discussing various REST testing features provided by soapUI.
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