Sending e-mails with the Email TestStep plugin

This recipe is a quick follow-on example to show how to use the Email TestStep plugin to send an e-mail.

Getting ready

If you've got access to an SMTP mail server, all you'll need for this recipe is SoapUI and the Email TestStep plugin. Otherwise, you can use a dummy SMTP server. A nice Java-based one is FakeSMTP (fakeSMTP-1.12.jar in the chapter 10 samples):

Download FakeSMTP from https://nilhcem.github.io/FakeSMTP/, and run with java –jar fakeSMTP-1.12.jar.

Tip

Linux/Mac OS

You will need to start this with the root permissions if you want to bind to port 25, for example, sudo java –jar fakeSMTP-1.12.jar.

How to do it...

First, we'll add a new Email TestStep to a TestCase and configure it to send a test email to a FakeSMTP server that is running locally. Then, run TestCase and see the e-mail received. Perform the following steps:

1. Either grab EmailTestStepProject from the chapter 10 samples or follow the steps from the previous recipe to get your...