Testing a WCF web service

Question

I have written a commercial WCF web service.

I would like to give the service to another person to test independent of the application that will be using the web service. This is because a third party is going to be building that app and we don't have access to it at the moment.

Another thing to remember too is that the person I want to hand this off to for testing is a non programmer. That is important.

So are there any tools out there that can subscribe to a WCF web service, and recognise what data needs to be inserted, and create a GUI to try out different combinations of data?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I typically use SoapUI for that purpose. You can also create test suits with it and it's free. Alternatively you can use the Microsoft WcfTestClient.exe that comes with Visual Studio since version 2008 I guess...