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SOAP UI

Introduction

SoapUI is an open-source web service testing application for service-oriented architectures (SOA) and representational state transfers (REST).

Its functionality covers web service inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking, functional testing, load and compliance testing.

A commercial version, SoapUI Pro, which mainly focuses on features designed to enhance productivity, was also developed by Eviware software.

In 2011, SmartBear Software acquired Eviware.

SoapUI was initially released to SourceForge in September 2005. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the European Union Public License.

Since the initial release, SoapUI has been downloaded more than 2,000,000 times.

It is built entirely on the Java platform, and uses Swing for the user interface. This means that SoapUI is cross-platform.

Today, SoapUI also supports IDEA, Eclipse, and NetBeans. SoapUI can test SOAP and REST web services, JMS, AMF, as well as make any HTTP(S) and JDBC calls.

Creating a Test Suit in SOAP UI

→Right Click on your Project

→ Create New TestSuit (CTRL + T)

→ Specify name of TestSuit

→ Right Click on your TestSuit

→ New TestCase (CTRL + N)

→ Specify name of TestCase

→ Expand Test Case

→ Click on Test Steps

→ Add Step

→ Choose request (e.g. SOAP Request)

→ Specify name for new step

→ Select operation to invoke for request

→ Add Request to TestCase (OK)


Green «+» icon will appear. By clicking it you can add Assertions.

SOAP UI New Test Suite

Specify name of TestSuite

New TestCase

Specify name of TestCase

Assertions in SOAP UI

Assertions are added to the TestSuits so to be able to add Assertions you need to create at least one TestSuit and click the green + sign.

SOAP UI assertion types

Then you can choose one of the wide variety of available assertion types.

SOAP UI assertion types

Property Content → Contains

ChooseContains. With this assertion it will be possible to search for the existence of a string token in the property value. It supports regular expressions and is applicable to any property.

Specify unique name of Assertion

SOAP UI assertion types

Type in content that you expect to receive in case of successfull request

Contains Assertion

Property Content → Not Contains

Choose Not Contains. With this assertion it will be possible to search for the non-existence of a string token in the property value. It supports regular expressions and is applicable to any property.

Specify unique name of Assertion

SOAP UI assertion types

Type in content that you definitely do not want to receive in the response

Contains Assertion

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Compliance, Status and Standards

SOAP Response

Choose SOAP Response. With this assertion you can check that the last received response is a valid SOAP Response. It is applicable only to SOAP TestRequest Steps only. Do not try to use it with REST.

Double click on the Assertion. It does not require any additional parameters and can be added to the test step only once.

SOAP Request assertion

Compliance, Status and Standards

Valid HTTP Status Code

Choose Valid HTTP Status Code. With this assertion you can check that the last received response is a valid SOAP Response. It is applicable only to SOAP TestRequest Steps only. Do not try to use it with REST.

Valid HTTP Status Code assertion

Type in the HTTP Status Codes that are appropriate for your request.

Usually it is 200 but you need to read system specification to be sure.

Valid HTTP Status Code assertion

SLA → Response SLA

Choose Response SLA. With this assertion you can validate that the last received response time was within the defined limit. It is applicable to Script TestSteps And TestSteps that send requests and receive responses.

Response SLA assertion

Specify the maximum response time (ms)

If response time is not mentioned in the spec add some reasonable time.

Specify the maximum response time assertion

Property Content → XPath Match

Choose XPath Match. This Assertion uses an XPath expression to select content from the target property and compares the result to an expected value. Applicable to any property containing XML.

Click Declare

To verify that the property is present in the response type in exists (//property_name)

Type in true to the Expected Result field.

Specify XPath expression and expected result

To verify that the property is present in the response only once, type in count (//property_name)

Type in 1 to the Expected Result field.

To validate property's value put path to the propery (full path or property's name - both options are acceptable)

Type in the expected property value to the Expected Result field.

Specify XPath expression and expected result

It is possible to use XPath Assertion with multiple properties.

Type in the parent property. After you get first correct response you can click Select from current

Click Allow Wildcards

Type in * instead of actuall values in the Expected Result field.

Specify XPath expression and expected result

When, for example, we can not reach server and all our assertions are failed they will have red indicator.

SOAP UI failed assertions

Mock Service with SOAP UI

File → Create Empty Project

SOAP UI Create Empty Project

Enter Project Name

SOAP UI Enter Project Name

New Rest Mock Service

SOAP UI New Rest Mock Service

Specify name of MockService

SOAP UI Specify name of MockService

Add new mock action

SOAP UI Add new mock action

Type in Resource path and choose method GET

SOAP UI Enter Resource path

New MockResponse

SOAP UI New MockResponse

Enter name of new MockResponse

SOAP UI Enter name of new MockResponse

Copy the json below and paste it to the Response body

{
    "bicycles":{
          "bicycle": [{
          "id":1,
          "name": " Helkama ",
          "country": " Finland "
    }, {
          "id":2,
          "name": " Stels ",
          "country": "Russia"
    },{
          "id":3,
          "name": " Tunturi ",
          "country": " Finland "
       }]
    }
}

Change Content | Media type to application/json. Http Status Code should be 200 – OK. Headers are optional. You can add them by clicking green + sign.

SOAP UI Copy the json below and paste it to the Response body

Right click on BicycleService and

Add new mock action

call it «bicycle/1»

Right click on «bicycle/1» (or click Ctrl + N) and

create New MockResponse

call it «singleBicycle»

Copy the following json and paste it to the Response body

{
          "bicycle": {
          "id":1,
          "name": "Helkama ",
          "country": "Finland "
       }
}

SOAP UI new mock response

Create new mock action, keep already used name «/bicycle» but make it POST instead of GET.

Create new MockResponse and call it «addBicycle»

Copypaste the following json to body

{ "key":12041961 }

SOAP UI

Create new GET mock action «/incorrectep» and new MockResponse «400» Change Http Status Code to 400 – Bad Request

SOAP UI Http Status Code 400 - Bad Request

Notice that the Port used by BicycleService is 8080

SOAP UI Http Status Code 400 - Bad Request

Start BicycleService

SOAP UI start REST Mock service

Now we have four different mock scenarious.

Use Postman to test them.

POST to http://localhost:8080/bicycle

Should return key 12041961

SOAP UI

GET to http://localhost:8080/bicycle

Should return list of all bicycles

SOAP UI

GET to http://localhost:8080/bicycle/1

Should return one bicycle

SOAP UI

GET to http://localhost:8080/incorrectep

Should return empty body and Http Status 400 Bad Request

SOAP UI

Dynamic Response

To create dynamic response for the POST to /bicycle request replace 12041996 with ${variable} and add the following code to the script folder

context.setProperty("variable",Math.random()*100000000000000000)

SOAP UI script

To test the script go to Postman and send multiple requests

Postman request

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