Web Services Testing with SoapUI

Its been a month since I have started to work on web services testing. Worked on couple of tools as OpenSTA and SoapUI as head start. Though OpenSTA is not a WS testing tool but its free, so I had evaluated it. What I understand now that it requires lot of scripting overhead to fill the gap for comprehensive WS testing. Working with SoapUI has been sheer fun as it involves combination of scripting and tools. SoapUI with its powerful groovy capabilities can be used for Soap and Non-Soap services testing. Groovy capabilities can used to make own framework which might take a bit of time, but that would be suiting to requirements. If the automation project is not large scale or is kind of one-time job, its better to use SoapUI.

The testing of services has finally opened for me, the avenues to xml and web services. Before coming to Soap, I came across the REST. From my understanding REST is just a way of styling URL. The URL below could be followed for more reading http://rest.elkstein.org/ .

Though I have got across most of the challenges using the tool, reporting remains my nightmare. Core reason was that TestStep doesn't expose any method to return the results. The other worst thing was http request test step. Generating the session ids required for login modules was something I couldn't get my head around. I hope to get this out of the way and get full structure of test automation working.