Testing WSDL in Visual Studio

Question

We have received a WSDL from our client that we use to communicate with their service. I have made a service reference to it in our project, and had developed the code to interact with it. I have used SoapUI to set up a mock service from their wsdl and have successfully tested my code.

My question is: is there a way to do WSDL testing only in visual studio? I am new to SoapUI and some of my concerns are as follows:

• No validation of input - i dont think it really cares what I pass into it. I would like to build more robust testing that would validate what i pass in and send...
• Dynamic reply messages. From what I understand, you can define a set of reply messages in SoapUI and one will be randomly selected. I really need to be able to parse the input and send a reply specific to some of that data. It wouldnt have to be fully developed but it would be a big step in actually emulating the client's service.

Is there a better way that I should be doing this testing? Is there a Visual Studio tool I am unaware of? Should I be trying to create my own testing service that serves the same endpoints as the client's service and implement custom code for testing? Should I learn SoapUI better and possibly address some of my issues with it?

Please let me know, my coworker assumes that microsoft has a better way to test this kind of scenario. Thanks!

Answer 1

We create a dummy web service based on the wsdl to test this type of scenario.

For one way of how to do this see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1395098