Web Services Description Language. The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based interface description language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service.
The acronym is also used for any specific WSDL description of a web service (also referred to as a WSDL file), which provides a machine-readable description of how the service can be called, what parameters it expects, and what data structures it returns. It thus serves a purpose that corresponds roughly to that of a method signature in a programming language. The current version of WSDL is WSDL 2.0. The meaning of the acronym has changed from version 1.1 where the D stood for Definition. Chapter 11. Test Doubles. Php - How to simulate "MYSQL has gone away" error. Mocking Zend Framework’s Row and Rowset objects. Mock Objects in PHPUnit » Sebastian Bergmann. Zend Framework - Using Connection Mock with Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase.