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You're reading from Web Services Testing with soapUI Starting with an overview of SOA and web services testing, this guide take you through a number of hands-on exercises and projects to get you familiar with soapUI. A sure way to raise the quality of your web services.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849515665

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

SoapUI

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Charitha Kankanamge

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Web Services Testing with soapUI

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Web Services Testing and soapUI FREE CHAPTER

2. The Sample Project

3. First Steps with soapUI and Projects

4. Working with Your First TestSuite

5. Load and Performance Testing with soapUI

6. Web Service Simulation with soapUI

7. Advanced Functional Testing with soapUI

8. Getting Started with REST Testing

9. Testing Databases with soapUI

10. JMS Testing with soapUI

11. Extending soapUI with Scripting

12. Automated Testing with soapUI

13. Miscellaneous Topics

Index

Creating a TestSuite

A soapUI functional test consists of three key elements as follows:

TestStep: A TestStep is the foundation of any functional test. It is used to manage the execution flow of the test and validate the test results. A TestStep is directly associated with a TestCase.
TestCase: In a soapUI project, a TestCase is a collection of TestSteps organized for testing some functionality of the service under test.
TestSuite: A TestSuite is a collection of TestCases which work together as a logical unit to test some specific functionality.

The structure of these elements in a soapUI project can be represented in a diagram as follows:

We will discuss each of these elements in detail while we go through our sample TestSuite. Without spending more time on theoretical aspects, let's start to build our soapUI project.

Our first scenario, as we just described, is a relatively simple one. Open the HotelReservationProject in soapUI which we have created in the previous chapter. We have already...