INTRO TO SOA Testing & SOAP UI

MANOJ MATHPAL | SOFTWARE CONSULTANT

Knoldus Software LLP

What is SOA

Why SOA Testing

Web Services Types

SOAP Vs REST

Tools for SOA Testing

What is SOAP UI Pro

SOAP UI Pro features

SOAP UI Testing Framework

Demo

AGENDA

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

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SOA is not a product or technology. Architectural approach to creating systems built from autonomous services based on service oriented principles

Service Oriented Principles

✓ Standardized service contracts

✓ Loose coupling

✓ Service abstraction

✓ Service reusability

✓ Service autonomy

✓ Platform independent

Why SOA Testing

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Component level testing

Early defect identification

Early to market

Maximise ROI in testing

Quality excellence and Test efficiency

Increase test coverage

Maximize ROI in testing

Web Services Types

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Web Services can be implemented in different ways, and the following two are the popular implementations approaches.

SOAP SOAP is a standard protocol defined by the W3C Standard for sending and receiving web service requests and responses. SOAP uses the XML format to send and receive the request and hence the data is platform independent data. SOAP messages are exchanged between the provider applications and receiving application within the SOAP envelops.

REST REST means Representational State Transfer, it is an architecture that generally runs over HTTP. REST is an alternative to SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and instead of using XML for request REST uses simple URL in some cases. Unlike SOAP, RESTFUL applications uses HTTP build in headers to carry meta-information. Rest API supports both XML and JSON format. It is usually preferred for mobile and web apps as it makes app work faster and smoother

SOAP Vs REST

REST stands for Representational State Transfer

No WS-Standards are available

Support is available for XML, JSON

REST is light weighted and sends only actual message that needs to exchange

REST is stateless

SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol

WS-Standards are available for security, transaction management etc.

Support only XML

SOAP has overhead of sending soap envelope, header along with actual soap message

Tools for SOA Testing

Company Tool DescriptionITKO (CA) LISA One of the early vendors of specialized testing and

automation tool for SOA. First vendor to launch virtualization capability as a standalone tool

Parasoft SOA Test One of the early starters in SOA test automation space. It has Application lifecycle Management (ALM),

virtualization etc. Good overall support for product

GreenHat GH Tester

HP Service Test Maturing rapidly in-terms of features and maturity and is in a position to challenge niche vendors. Seamless

integration with HP toolset for GUI automation is a key strength and differentiator

Open Source/Licensed

SOAP UI/SOAP UI

Pro

Available in both open source and licensed version. Has capability of load testing along with functional

automation

What is SOAP UI Pro

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A open source/licensed Functional Testing solution from SmartBear. With an user friendly interface SOAP UI provides capability of creating and executing of automated functional test and regression suite. On successful test execution tool provides execution report in multiple formats. SOAP UI has also extended its capability to do Load testing, security testing and compliance testing.

SOAP UI Pro Test Structure

SOAP UI structures functional test into three levels; Test Suites, Test Cases and Test StepsTest suite is a collection of test case grouped logically together. Multiple test suite can be created inside SOAP UI project. For e.g. different test suites can be created for positive and negative scenarioTest case is a collection of Test Steps grouped together to build complete frameworkTest steps are building blocks of test cases. For e.g. SOAP Request, Datasource, Datasink, DataSourceLoop, Assertions, Groovy etc.

SOAP UI Pro Features

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✓ Test data driven testing approach

✓ Load Testing

✓ Mock creation to mimic the web service response

✓ Support of SOAP, Rest, JMS, MQ etc.

✓ Service autonomy

✓ Integration capabilities with other softwares

✓ SOAP UI inbuilt framework capability

Security Testing

SOAP UI Testing Framework

REST/SOAPService

MQ Service Provider

Testers

Driver data

Test data

Requests Framework

SoapUIHermes JMS

DB

SOAP/REST RequestSOAP/REST Response

JDBC Request

Query Results

ReportsAutomated e-mail

SUT

JMS

Test Data Source

Configuration

Demo

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