Web Service Testing Tools: A Comparative Study

TL;DR

This paper compares three popular open-source web service testing tools, analyzing their features, usability, and performance to aid users in selecting appropriate tools and encouraging further development.

Contribution

It provides a detailed comparative analysis of three open-source web service testing tools, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses.

Findings

Comparison of features and usability of the tools

Performance evaluation results

Recommendations for tool adoption and development

Abstract

Quality of Service (QoS) has gained more importance with the increase in usage and adoption of web services. In recent years, various tools and techniques developed for measurement and evaluation of QoS of web services. There are commercial as well as open-source tools available today which are being used for monitoring and testing QoS for web services. These tools facilitate in QoS measurement and analysis and are helpful in evaluation of service performance in real-time network. In this paper, we describe three popular open-source tools and compare them in terms of features, usability, performance, and software requirements. Results of the comparison will help in adoption and usage of these tools, and also promote development and usage of open-source web service testing tools.