soapUI: Tool to ease your Webservices development

I have often used altova tools to ease my XML and webservices(SOAP) development. Also, bea users have witnessed how easy it is to use an IDE to simplify rudimentary webservices/soap/WSDL related tasks. Well, soapui makes life much simpler for SOA developers. Here is quick look at soapUI features:

soapUI has a broad set of features that greatly ease the development, integration and testing of webservices;

Web Service Inspection and Invocation

The following features for inspecting and invoking web services are currently available: Imported WSDL:s are shown as a hierarchy view of interfaces (PortTypes) and their operations Automatic generation of requests from associated schema (both with/without optional schema elements) Manage unlimited number of requests for each operation Manage multiple service endpoints for each interface Support for Basic, Digest, WS-Security and NTLM authentication Support for Attachments; MTOM, SOAP with Attachments, Inline files Support for both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 Syntax highlighting editor with undo/redo, formatting, etc. HTTP wire log shows actual requests sent and received

Web Service Development and Validation

The following features are available for development of Web Services: Generate both Server and Client code for some of the most popular WebService toolkits; JBossWS, JWSDP, Axis 1, Axis 2, XFire, .NET and GSoap Generate WSDLs from existing java-code for JBossWS Generate XML-Binding classes for JAXB and XMLBeans Command-line support for all generation tools for easy integration in continuous integration/build environments Validate Web Service Definitions and messages against the WS-I Basic Profile Validate requests and response bodies against their schema definition IDE-plugins are available for eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans and a specialized eclipse-plugin for JBossWS

Web Service Functional Testing

The following features for functional testing web services are currently available: Create TestSuites/TestCases containing requests to imported Web Service SOAP Response can be asserted for associated schema compliance, xpath expression content matching, etc.. Values can be transferred from a between requests using XPath expressions (for transfer of for example sessionIds) XPath-based conditions can be used to control TestCase execution paths Groovy Scripts can be added for arbitrary functionality Test Properties can be defined and loaded from external files during execution Easy changing of testcase endpoints/credentials allows entire testcases/suites to run against multiple servers Tests/Testcases can be run both in soapUI or through maven or from command-line

Web Service Load Testing

The following features for load testing web services are currently available:

• Create any number of LoadTests for a TestCase
• Choose between configurable Load Strategies, Limits and Thread-counts and analyze how web services perform under a variety of scenarios
• Assert LoadTest results continuously for performance and functionality surveillance
• Behavioural Diagrams allow realtime analysis of performance statistics
• Export results, logs, diagram data, etc, for external processing
• Run multiple LoadTests interactively in soapUI or through maven or from command-line

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