My significant other and I were discussing tech (which she doesn’t like to do, but I slip it into our conversations whenever I can) and she had mentioned that she wanted to know more about SOAP, or Simple Object Access Protocol.

In a nutshell, SOAP defines the process in which two or more environment applications, with different operating systems communicate with each other using HTTP and XML.

The tutorial provides more detail on the subject and since I assume that my girfriend is not alone in her desire to understand this, I hope this tutorial works for you as well. She too is in QA, and I thought that maybe a straightforward explaination from a resource that has provided me with a lot of thoughtful ideas would be a great starter for any respectable QA tester.

Link: TechTarget SOAP Tutorial