A flexible tool that can be used to quickly test services. WCF Test Harness is a flexible tool that can be used to quickly test services. The utility is a windows software that uses WCF to submit requests via a given URL or proxy class.

This software is similar to other service test tools, notably WCF Load Test and SOAP UI.

The WCF Test Harness is primarily a software to quickly identify if a service is available and to gain an early understanding of the service. In practice, the utility was used during the development of solutions where the technology being used had overhead making quick appraisal of services cumbersome (e.g., BizTalk Server and SharePoint).

The test harness has the following key features:
1. Add a reference to a proxy contained in an assembly
2. Generate a proxy based on a given URL
3. Generate an XML representation of the request that can be edited as text
4. Record the response time of a submitted request
5. Provide the capability to submit multiple requests on separate threads
6. Provide the capability to save and load tests
7. Provide the capability to create a stubbed service host

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this server utility software.