Soup UI -Test suits, Test cases, SOAP vs Rest, Features

SoapUI

• SoapUI is agile testing tool
• Popular advance api testing tool
• Support various protocol
• Open source tool
• Automate functional and non functional testing
• Platform and language independent
• Auto mock creation

 Important SoapUI features

• Extends http for xml messaging
• Drag and drop test creation
• Supports for test debugging
• Supports multiple environments- protocols-soap,rest including data driven testing
• Increase test coverage

 WSDL

• Web service description language
• Xml based definition language
• Soap based services testing oriented files
• Defines various aspects of SOAP messages
• Whether elements or attibutes are allowed to appear multiple times
• Required or optional elements and attributes
• Specific order of elements

 WSDL

• Webservices breaks in 3 category
• Input, output and map
• Elements of WSDL
• Types- data types
• Operations -accept and transition-naming message, message queue
• Binding
• Pattern of operation
• One way
• Request- response
• Solicit-response
• Notifications

 Tips to test web service login

• SQL injection tests
• Log in and log in again
• Lockout
• Element duplication

 API testing with SoapUI

• Create soap project
• Enter WSDL  and under it various APIs
• Right click WSDL and create test suite select APIs and ok
• Test suits contains list of test cases with name of APIs
• Expand test case > test steps> click on request

 Initialization of project

• File>new soap project or click soap icon
• Enter project name and WSDL (uri)
• Under the project having green arrow WSDL file and under that various APIs and requests

 Adding WSDL to project

• Specify the initial WSDL
• Rename project
• Click ok

Create test suits

• Expand project> contains WSDL file>list of APIs
• Right click on WSDL file > generate test suite and click ok
• Rename the test suite

 REST API

• Soap is protocol designed before rest
• Soap works on different platform, while design specific to media components
• Webservices defined as platform on rest
• Rest supports get, push put and delete
• File>new rest project will create new rest project> enter URI of API- uniform resource identifier