Chapter 12. Automated Testing with soapUI

Automated testing is the process of executing the existing manual tests using software. As we discussed throughout the book, the soapUI tests can simply be triggered via the intuitive user interface of soapUI. Will that be sufficient when testing the components including web services in your service-oriented solution? Isn't it a tedious and time-consuming task for your Quality Assurance (QA) team to run the soapUI TestSuites manually through user interface against each build? Can we minimize the human intervention when running soapUI tests?

The automated execution of soapUI tests can be considered as a possible answer for most of these questions. Even if we have an approach to run the soapUI tests automatically, we cannot gain the complete advantage of test automation, if we do not integrate the tests in to the build process and triggering them automatically with each build cycle. There are various mechanisms that can be adopted to achieve much ROI...