soapui experience

well, i want to note down what i faced unexpected during my soapui usage..

btw, i am using the netbeans plugin version (http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2009/10/web-service-testing-in-netbeans.html)

first of all, soapui project is one big xml file which is a disadvantage.. i really have no idea how they handled svn usage, maybe it is similar to enterprise architect's solution. whatever, my concern is not svn at this moment..

secondly, i could not open the project after i closed netbeans, i don t know why.. soapui-project.xml file is just got emty with no reason.. so, i have to start from beginning, this is annoying actually :( the point is: pay special attention to taking backups..

and this warning comes up everytime i close netbeans.. 

Project file [...Test] has been modified externally, overwrite?

TODO: very soon..

soapui

well, lets start with testing web services using soapui

in a previous post at http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2009/10/web-service-testing-in-netbeans.html a quick start has been made.. now, it is time to continue..

the following are good tutors to start up:

• http://soa4real.blogspot.com/2008/05/testing-web-services-with-soapui.html
  
• the soap part of http://www.developer.com/open/article.php/3839476/article.htm
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/testing-and-monitoring-web-ser?page=0,0
  

TODO: details soon..

soapui vs jmeter for web service testing

this article is a good comparison of jmeter and soapui (and lucily a recent one) : http://www.developer.com/open/article.php/3839476/article.htm

according to this, soapui wins for two main reasons:

•  from the article: A big difference from the SoapUI here is that you should have SOAP requests already to be supplied to JMeter, where as in SoapUI you can generate them.

this is a big deal in fact..

• again from  the article: The learning curve of SoapUI is shorter then the JMeter, mostly because SoapUI automates a lot of tasks related to the creation of the Web services test plans.

 we are in a hurry, so shorter learning curve is attractive..

web service testing in netbeans

i have been looking for some tool to test (jax ws) web services developped with netbeans 6.5.  soapui at http://www.soapui.org/ is such a tool.. It is both available as standalone or as netbeans plugin.. well, i prefer the plugin (http://www.soapui.org/netbeans/index.html).. 

lets begin..

the very first step is installing the plugin.. just download the nbm from http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui/files/soapui-netbeans-plugin/3.0 and follow the instructions at http://www.soapui.org/netbeans/installation.html

a simple demo http://www.soapui.org/netbeans/demos/soapui-netbeans-demo-3/soapui-netbeans-demo-3.html

so, end of the quick start.. 

Edit on 13/10/2009 at 11.12 : 

btw, the command line tools of soapui does not come with the plugin.. so, if you want to use them, for instance launch testrunner inside netbeans or whatever, download soapui standalone version from http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui/files/soapui/3.0.1 , run the executable for installation, and show the path soapUI-3.0.1/bin for testrunner exe or something..

Edit on 13/10/2009 at 12.03 :

moreover, it is possible to test bpel processes with soapui..

here are the examples:

http://www.soapui.org/netbeans/demos/soapui-netbeans-demo-1/soapui-netbeans-demo-1.html

http://www.soapui.org/netbeans/demos/soapui-netbeans-demo-2/soapui-netbeans-demo-2.html