Testing REST webservices [closed]

Answer 1

soapUI will do the job as well, check out this blog post to get started.

Answer 2

SOA Cleaner, is a test tool that tests both soap and rest (also WCF, but it seems you don't need that feature). It's very intuative, and usable. Written in .NET. A free version is also available. can be downloaded from http://xyrow.com. Good luck!

Answer 3

I don't have tested it yet but this Java app seems to be nice to test REST services. There is also a tutorial on Javalobby about it.

Java App: http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/

Tuto: http://java.dzone.com/announcements/wiztoolsorg-restclient-21-rele

Answer 4

I'm using REST console extension for Google Chrome and It's by far the best i've tried. It also supports various security mechanisms like OAuth

(update 2: fix link)

Answer 5

Check out Fiddler

Answer 6

If you like using Ruby there's a REST-Client gem for it

For testers I find ruby is a really easy language to learn, and it has some excecllent tools like Cucumber for doing BDD style acceptance tests.