Why Mock Services?

MockMotor, a Mock Server For the last few years, I’ve been working on a mock server application, MockMotor. Why? Testing with mocks is essential in any SOA environment, including the ones based on OSB. As the number of services in the system grows, it becomes harder and harder to line up all required backends for a round of testing. Seeding those backends becomes a tedious and error-prone work. Troubleshooting those backends and their inter-dependencies becomes an increasingly long process.

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Evaluate WSDL Change Impact at a Glance

Upload the old and the updated WSDLs to WSDL Diff and see what’s impacted. A WSDL Has Got Updated A vendor has just sent you an updated WSDL. What’s going to break because of the changes in it? This question is very common for any system that is built on top of SOA. You typically have a few consumers for a WSDL, or a few services that use the same WSDL, and now that WSDL needs to be updated.

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Easy Way To Test Your OSB Code

Reproducible testing of web services requires mock services. Meet MockMotor. How Do You Test Your OSB Code? A composite and often even pass-through service in OSB requires a testing to prove it works. You may need to test multiple scenarios, including but not limiting to: Account-specific logic Incorrect inputs Backend error conditions Partial failures and recovery Retries Performance under load How do you do it? Web Services Testing is a Common Problem Every time we create web services (OSB or standalone, SOAP or REST, no difference), we have to test them.

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