Web services are more commonly becoming the targets of Performance tests. This post aims to provide an introduction to testing SOAP with LoadRunner without using the Web Services VUser type. Why not use the Web Services Vuser? Errors like this
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Xml.XmlException: 'xsi' is an undeclared namespace.
Using the custom web request (as suggested by Wilson Mar, Stuart Moncrieff and many others) bypasses the XML validation steps of LoadRunner, which is a good thing. This is possible because SOAP is just XML over HTTP, so lets take a look.
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