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SoapUI Cookbook

You're reading from   SoapUI Cookbook Boost your SoapUI capabilities to test RESTful and SOAP APIs with over 65 hands-on recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784394219
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rupert Anderson Rupert Anderson
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Preface 1. Testing and Developing Web Service Stubs With SoapUI FREE CHAPTER 2. Data-driven Testing and Using External Datasources 3. Developing and Deploying Dynamic REST and SOAP Mocks 4. Web Service Test Scenarios 5. Automation and Scripting 6. Reporting 7. Testing Secured Web Services 8. Testing AWS and OAuth 2 Secured Cloud Services 9. Data-driven Load Testing With Custom Datasources 10. Using Plugins 11. Taking SoapUI Further Index

Using old-style (open source) plugins


To start off, let's take a look at old-style plugins. So what are they?

  • They are a way of adding extensions or functionality to open-source SoapUI.

  • They typically create/configure new SoapUI framework elements, for example, Models, Actions, Events, Listeners, and Factories (more on those later).

  • They are written in Java or compiled in Groovy.

  • They are packaged and deployed as JAR files.

  • There are currently six example plugins available for download, for example, Email TestStep, Groovy Console, Programmable Web, RAML, Runscope, and Swagger plugins.

Why are they called old-style?

The following are the reasons:

  • SoapUI pro/SoapUI NG has a newer plugin framework (see the Plugin Manager recipe for more information)

  • The new pro plugins are not backward compatible, and old-style plugins cannot be used with the pro plugin manager

However, old-style does not mean obsolete, since if you are an open source user, the old-style plugins are in fact current and work perfectly...

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