Jmeter Web service Testing (HTTP Raw Request)

Question

How to test web services which is written in PHP as "HTTP Raw Request" , I tried J meter Raw request Plugins, but i donno what to give in Request Data, And Data File Path ????

Kindly Suggest me to go further in Jmeter !!!!

Answer 1

SOAP Web Services are talking XML. REST Web Services are accept and reply JSON.

For XML-based Web Service you should be using

• SOAP/XML-RPC Request to send a request itself
• XPath Extractor - for correlation (extract dynamic values from response for re-using)
• XPath Assertion - for checking that response is expected

For REST-based Web Service following components are quite good:

• HTTP Request - to send requests
• HTTP Header Manager - to hold Content-Type and any other headers
• JSONPath Extractor (available via plugin) - for correlation
• JSONPath Assertion - for testing

Perhaps Testing SOAP/REST Web Services Using JMeter guide can be a good place to start with.