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November 4, 2001 - Testing Public Web Services

Yehuda Shiran November 4, 2001
Testing Public Web Services
Tips: November 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Web services represent a paradigm shift in the way you develop applications. You no longer develop all modules by yourself. Some of the functionality you'll get by calling Web services. But then, you need to be very careful which services are kosher and which are junk. Some sites are doing a great service by providing acceptance tests and expected results that you can check against. Here is the list of Web services under the Interop Lab:

And here are the regression test results:

You can call Web services from JavaScript. In upcoming tips and columns we'll cover the motivation and the implementation of Web services, and how to use them from JavaScript.