SOA

Service Oriented Architecture or SOA is a design pattern. It is designed to provide

services to other applications through protocol. It is a concept only and not tied to
any programming language or platform.
WebService
Web service is a technology to communicate one programming language with another. For
example, java programming language can interact with PHP and .Net by using web services.
In other words, web service provides a way to achieve interoperability.

1. A Web Service is a service accessed via Web.

2. Web Service is a way to publish your application over web and enable
other applications to access functions defined by your web service.
3. Web services exposes an interface defined in Web Services Description
Language (WSDL).
4. Other applications can interact with Web service using the description
provided using its WSDL interface.
5. The protocol used to interact with Web Services is Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP). SOAP is a simple XML-based protocol to let applications
exchange information over HTTP.
Why
Web Services with incorrect responses can lead to problems.
Web Service Functional Testing ensures that your web service is
functionally correct.
Automated Web Service Functional Testing involves carrying set of tasks
automatically and comparing the result of same with the expected output
and ability to repeat same set of tasks multiple times with different data
input and same level of accuracy.

Implementing functional test for your web service early in the software
development cycle speeds up development, improves quality and reduces
risks towards the end of the cycle.