Web Services Testing with soapUI -- Table of Contents -- Web Services Testing with soapUI -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Web Services Testing and soapUI -- SOA and web services -- Service-oriented solutions -- Case study -- Building blocks of SOA -- Web services -- Mediation -- Composition -- Simple Object Access Protocol -- Alternatives to SOAP -- REST -- Java Script Object Notation -- Web Services Description Language -- Message exchanging patterns -- SOAP Faults -- Approaches of testing web services -- Unit testing of web services -- Functional testing -- Tool assisted testing -- Using client APIs provided by service container middleware -- Integration testing of web services -- Performance testing of web services -- The common challenges of Web services testing -- Use of external web services -- Implications of using complex standards and protocols -- Headless nature of web services -- What is soapUI? -- Capabilities of soapUI -- Installing soapUI -- System requirements -- Installing soapUI on Linux -- soapUI installation on Windows -- Installing soapUI on MacOS -- A glance at soapUI user interface -- Summary -- 2. The Sample Project -- The problem domain -- Project pre-requisites -- Java -- Apache Ant -- MySQL -- Setting up Apache Axis2 -- Setting up project source directories -- Designing the web services -- Creating the database -- Implementing the web services -- Web services fault handling -- Managing database operations.

Completing the web service implementation classes -- Deploying web services -- Summary -- 3. First Steps with soapUI and Projects -- Understanding the web services definition -- Schema -- portType -- binding -- Service -- Creating a soapUI project -- Invoking the guest management web service -- A detailed look at SOAP requests and responses -- Generating SOAP Faults -- Summary -- 4. Working with Your First TestSuite -- A sample test scenario -- Creating a TestSuite -- Adding TestCases -- addRoom TestCase -- getRoomDetails TestCase -- deleteRoom TestCase -- Running the first TestSuite -- Adding test assertions -- Not SOAP Fault assertion -- XPath Match assertion -- The Contains assertion -- Adding properties to soapUI tests -- Reading property values from a file -- Transferring property values between TestSteps -- Summary -- 5. Load and Performance Testing with soapUI -- Non-functional testing of web services -- Performance testing -- Planning for web service performance testing -- Using soapUI for performance testing -- Working with load tests in soapUI -- Limit of a load test -- Threads in a soapUI load test -- Load test strategies of soapUI -- Simple load strategy -- Burst load strategy -- Thread load strategy -- Variance strategy -- A closer look at the load test report and statistics of soapUI -- Using load test assertions in soapUI -- The Max Errors assertion -- The Step Average assertion -- Step TPS assertion -- The Step Maximum assertion -- The Step Status assertion -- LoadTest options -- Summary -- 6. Web Service Simulation with soapUI -- Mocking in software testing -- Mocking in web services testing -- Mock services and contract-first web service development -- Simulating services that are not accessible -- Dealing with test environmental restrictions -- Mock services with soapUI -- The structure of soapUI MockService -- MockService details.

MockOperation details -- Dispatching styles of MockOperation -- MockResponse details -- soapUI mock services in action -- Static responses - the basic scenario -- Service chaining -- Content-based routing -- Message transformation -- Using dynamic responses -- Summary -- 7. Advanced Functional Testing with soapUI -- Introduction to web services extensions -- What is WS-Addressing -- Endpoint references -- Message addressing properties -- What is WS-Security -- WS-Policy -- WS-SecurityPolicy -- WS-Trust -- WS-SecureConversation -- Configuring Apache Axis2 for WS-Addressing and WS-Security -- WS-Addressing in Apache Axis2 -- WS-Security in Apache Axis2 -- Testing the WS-Addressing with soapUI -- Validating the WS-Addressing responses -- Testing WS-Security with soapUI -- Web service authentication -- Securing GuestManagementService -- Testing the secured GuestManagementService with soapUI -- Project level WS-Security configurations in soapUI -- Testing asymmetric binding policy with soapUI -- Asymmetric binding -- Signing SOAP messages -- Securing RoomManagementService -- Testing secured RoomManagementService with soapUI -- Outgoing WS-Security configurations -- Incoming WS-Security configurations -- Applying WS-Security configurations to the SOAP request -- Validating WS-Security responses -- Summary -- 8. Getting Started with REST Testing -- Introduction to REST -- Represent everything with URIs -- Using standard HTTP methods -- Linking resources together -- Multiple representations of resources -- Stateless communication -- Testing RESTful APIs using soapUI -- REST Services in soapUI -- Request and response representation -- Using POST or PUT requests in soapUI REST services -- Reading POST message content from a file -- Inserting the HTTP Basic Authentication header to requests -- REST parameters -- Query parameters -- Template parameters.

Matrix parameters -- Header parameters -- Functional testing of REST services -- WADL -- Summary -- 9. Testing Databases with soapUI -- Testing data in isolation -- Setting up soapUI to connect to the database -- JDBC Request TestStep -- JDBC Request properties -- JDBC test assertions -- Stored procedures with JDBC Request TestStep -- Accessing soapUI properties from SQL query -- Summary -- 10. JMS Testing with soapUI -- Introduction to JMS -- Setting up Apache ActiveMQ -- JMS integration in soapUI -- Working with JMS messaging in soapUI -- Validating JMS responses -- Verifying end-to-end JMS message delivery using the sample project -- Configuring JMS in Apache Axis2 -- Configuring a session in HermesJMS -- Adding a JMS endpoint in soapUI -- Summary -- 11. Extending soapUI with Scripting -- Introduction to Groovy scripting language -- What is Groovy? -- HelloWorld with Groovy -- Variable and object declaration in Groovy -- Control structures in Groovy -- Class and method declarations in Groovy -- Groovy scripting in soapUI -- The context object -- The testRunner variable -- soapUI ModelItems -- Setup and TearDown scripts in soapUI -- Load Script at soapUI project level -- Request and response handling using Scripts -- Script assertion -- Summary -- 12. Automated Testing with soapUI -- Test automation -- Why is test automation essential in SOA? -- Continuous Integration (CI) -- soapUI JUnit integration -- soapUI command line executions -- Invoking a soapUI command line functional test runner -- Invoking test runners from the soapUI graphical user interface -- Maven soapUI plugin -- Summary -- 13. Miscellaneous Topics -- soapUI IDE plugins -- soapUI Eclipse plugin -- soapUI IntelliJ IDEA plug-in -- WS-I validation using soapUI -- soapUI integration with external web services' frameworks -- Sending attachments with SOAP messages using soapUI.

Deploying an MTOM-enabled web service -- Using soapUI to send an attachment to the web service -- Summary -- Index.