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I am developing a asp.net mvc site that depends deeply on a 3rd party web service.

I would like to know what is the best approach to develop this site since the web service is not ready yet and I can't wait it to be ready to start developing.

I am using Specflow and selenium to drive my development.

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You can create mock response files of that web service and use them during development of your site. I assume that general structure of web service response is already established.

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  • You mean, I can create interfaces representing these web services and implement them with mocks and after that just replace with the actual web services? Right? So, this means I would have to change the tests expectations also. Is this the best way?
    – thitemple
    May 11, 2011 at 14:38
  • No-no, it's much simpler.Suppose a webservice returns an XML document. WIth an actual working webservice you would write something like doc = Nokogiri::XML(open('webservice.com?user="Adam Smith"')) (code in Ruby using XML parsing library Nokogiri), and then manipulate variable doc. With mock response files you should just use something like doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.new(AdamSmith.xml)).
    – Nikita Barsukov
    May 11, 2011 at 15:28
  • But in that case we are assuming that I know exactly how the web service will return the data which is not the case. What I know is what it has to return and I have model classes, I will have to map the service data to my model. So I can't just replace an xml.
    – thitemple
    May 12, 2011 at 12:20

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