A nice soap test tool: SoapUI

Do you manually code test harnesses for your web services? It's a real pain, and because every web service is defined by its wsdl you shouldn't have to do it. I've been using a soap test tool called SoapUI for the last few weeks. It makes experimenting with raw web service requests a breeze. You just have to give it a wsdl url and it will construct an example request which you can fill in with some test values. Then it's just a question of waiting for the response. It saves all the different requests you make in a project file and you can change the endpoint to try out different deployments. It's also got facilities to do load testing and generate statistics for web services, but I haven't had a need to use that yet. The only downside about this tool is that it's got a nasty javaesque interface, cross platform UIs always suck, but this one is not too bad.