Validating SOAP Services

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 11:04 - Last Updated Sunday, 30 May 2010 12:38

When creating a functional TestCase in soapUI, a very common scenario is that you want to call
some SOAP/WSDL service and validate the response to check that the correct result is
returned. This is easily done once you have imported the WSDL for the service you want to test:

1. Add a SOAP Request TestStep to a new or existing TestCase

2. Add Assertions to the TestStep that validate the response message

Adding the Request TestStep can be done in several ways:

1. By pressing the “Add to TestCase” button on the top left of the message editor or the
“Add to TestCase” action from the Request Popup Menu. This will prompt for which
TestSuite/TestCase to add to (or create new ones) and then open the following dialog:

Here you can specify how the created SOAP Request TestStep should initially be

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configured with assertions (see below).

2. By pressing the SOAP Request button or selecting the corresponding “Test Request”
from the popup Insert/Append TestStep menu options in the TestCase editor. This will first
prompt for a name and which operation in the project to test, leading to the following dialog:

Select the desired options and press OK

In either ways, pressing OK generates the SOAP Request TestStep as specified into the target
TestCase:

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