What is SoapUI?

 Introduction to SoapUI

In this tutorial, we will be learning about SoapUI and related to SoapUI that is being used extensively all across the globe. SoapUI is a cross-platform tool used for functional as well as non – functional testing and mostly used in Web Services testing. In other words, we can say that it is an open source tool which is widely used in Web service testing. It is generally used to test Web services and Web APIs. But before moving forward into this topic, I have a question for you. Do you have any knowledge about this topic? Before coming to the topic first we have to read about testing where it will be useful. Do you know what is testing?  her we will learn a lot of things and especially what is testing and its several aspects.

Testing

Testing is an investigation process by which we got to know that our program, service or product working or not. In other words, Testing is a phase of software or system development where we got the report of our product and system efficiency and functionality.

It has 2 types –

1. Manual Testing
2. Automation Testing

Understanding of SaopUI

SoapUI is an open-source tool web service testing application for service-oriented architectures as well as for representational state transfers. This means that SoapUI is cross-platform.

SOAP is the word used for the Simple Object Access Protocol. It was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is an XML based protocol used for the exchange of information in a decentralized and distributed environment.

Advantages Of SoapUI

Below are the advantages:

• It has User – Friendly GUI.
• It provides data transport for Web services.
• It is also used as message broadcasting.
• It is too easy for Functional Testing
• It is both platforms as well as language independent.
• It is a protocol which is specially designed to communicate with the help of internet.
• It performs the role of both client as well as service.
• It is user-friendly and also it is easy to convert the functional test into a non-functional test.

Soap Message structure

<?xml version = "1.0"?>  <SOAP-ENV:Envelope  xmlns:SOAP-ENV = "http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle = "http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding">
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
...
...
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
...
...
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
...
...
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP_ENV:Envelope>

Some Protocols and Technologies

SOAP – Stands for – Simple Object Access Protocol

WSDL – Stands for – Web Service Definition Language REST – Stands for – Representational State Transfer

HTTP – Stands for – HyperText Transmission Protocol

HTTPS – Stands for – HyperText Transmission Protocol Secured

AMF – Stands for – Action Message Format

JDBC – Stands for – Java Database Connectivity

JMS – Stands for – Java Messaging Service

SoapUI – Installation & Configuration

We know that it’s a cross-platform tool and It supports Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems.

It has requirements defined as –  A processor of 1GHz {32-bit or 64-bit}

Minimum 512 MB of RAM

Hard Disk Space of Minimum 200MB for installation. Requires Operating System Version of Windows XP, MAC  and at last, it requires JAVA

Download Process

Step 1 – Go to the official website of SoapUI and download it.

Step 2 – Now click on Get it and it will start downloading of the round of 112mb.

Installation Process

Step 1 – After the download, run the file as administrator.

Then it will show like this

Step 2 – When it has been then a pop-up window will occur then click on next.

Step 3 – Then accept the agreement and click next.

Step 4 – Choose the path or direction where you want to save it.

Step 5 – Choose the following components that you want and then click next.

Step 6 – Then again accept another agreement an click next.

Step 7 – Now select the path for it. And click on browse

Step 8 – Choose the start menu location and click ‘Next’.

Step 9 – Tick the checkbox to create a desktop icon and click Next.

The installation will start and be completed after some time. It will show you like this.

Step 10 – After complete installation, it will show like this.

Why should we use SoapUI?

SOAPUI allows testers to execute the functional automatically, compilation, and load tests on different Web API. It also supports all the standard protocols and technologies to test different kinds of API’s. Its interface is simple which enables both technical and non-technical users to use easily.

Functional Testing

It gives us many features and functionality that we can apply through it.

• Select and drop – It provides the way to simply drag the things and use them without any complexity.
• Highly robust Tool – Depends on the above-mentioned capability, it is actually very robust..
• Efficient switching – By jumping among several environments, it makes the API testing very efficient and of course easy to use.
• User-defined scripts – Scripts could be customized as per requirement of the testing.

Load Testing

LoadUI Agents: SoapUI has the quantity of LoadUI agents over that load is distributed and might analyze the assorted performance parameters.

Ease of Use: investing the easy programme and handling LoadUI agents of SoapUI tool, load testing becomes terribly easy and simple to work.

Performance Monitoring: SoapUI has advanced coverage system to capture varied performance parameters for load testing. Also, it permits performance watching for end-to-end system load testing.

Security Testing

• XSS or Cross Site Scripting: It detects where the application is prone towards javascript code injection and provides us the chance to correct it if it occurs.
• Web services and API security: It is comprised of a fantastic feature to perform the scan to ensure the security of the web services and APIs.
• Data security: It also plays a vital role in securing the database. It actually performs the scanning before suggesting the remediations.

How this SoapUI technology will help you in career growth?

In reality, there is not one “career path of a software tester” as one can take many different paths, specializing and growing in a certain branch of testing or moving into other business areas. It is good to have it clear in your mind which path you want to take beforehand, in order to know which skills to hone, which projects to take on, etc.

These are some growths

• QA Consultant
• Test Leader / Test Manager
• Test Automator / Technical Tester

Conclusion

There are several Testing tools that could be used per our requirement. SoapUI is the most used tool due to it’s easy to use interface.  Just to summarize in straight words, if you are looking to get trained and want to become a software tester it is the best tool for testing and to achieve success.

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