hi

m new to this soapUI tool.. can any one tell whether we can use this tool to load test the webservice application and other java applications..
can we generate graphs for load test..

Yes, soapUI can definitly be used for load testing your webservice. It can also produce some graphs for you. But our experience is that when your using large number of threads (+10) for your test soapUI is having trouble to keep track of the sent messages: although it is sending all messages you ask it to, it stops counting the messages it has sent and therefor produces wrong graphs.
More info on load testing:
http://www.soapui.org/userguide/loadtest/index.html

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Does anyone know if you can use SoapUI with Digital Certificates?

Yes, you can!
In SoapUI go to menu option 'File-Preferences'. Then at the third tab 'SSL Settings' you can browse to your digital certificate 'file' and supply the personal password for the keystore to use.

Hope this helps.

Hi,
I'm new to SoapUI and I am trying to insert the values dynamically in request, so anybody can tell me how I can do this?

You should read this entry: http://www.pascalalma.net/2007/07/11/another-common-issue-solved-with-soap-ui/
That should help you on the right track.

Thanks Pascal for the information. It has really helped me. But few things are yet not resolved. I'm doing functional testing, so in this case I am still not able to relate with Property transfer and getting confused with property expansion. Can you please guide me for this?

Regards

Hi,
Thanks Pascal, my queries are resolved. Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards,

Hi Pascal,

I'm a bit stuck... on the SSL part, I created a keystore using keytool. My webservice server authenticates with a client supplied SSL cert. I get the keystore loaded just fine, but I cannot find a way to invoke the request using the cert in the keystore... any suggestions?

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks,

Glenn Geller

Hi Glenn,

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly, but I will give it a try. You generated a keystore by yourself. In that keystore you have stored a key/certificate that is supplied by a client. Now you want your soapUI request to use that certificate, is that correct? Because if that is what you want then you will need the private key of your client, and I can imagine that you don't have access to that, for obvious security reasons.
If I am still on the right track :-) then you should generate your own private key, add that to your keystore that is stored at the server and add that self generated key to your Soap UI request like this:
In SoapUI go to menu option ‘File-Preferences’. Then at the third tab ‘SSL Settings’ you can browse to your digital certificate ‘file’ and supply the personal password for the key to be used.

I hope this helps.

Great!

Hi Pascal,

Right now I am able mock a web service and the end point would start as http://..... What do I need to do if I want my end point of accessing the mockservice should start with https://...I am not sure on how to use the SSL settings.
Please help me in this regard

Hi Nandhaa,

I'm not sure I do understand your question. Do you want to know how you can set the endpoint to 'https' in Soap UI or do you want to know how you can enable the 'https' protocol at your server that is running your webservice?

Can you explain your question a little more, please?

Let me state the problem step by step
1. Created a New WSDL project using a wsdl file
2. Generated the mock service with the 'path = /mockDayOfWeekBinding' and port = 8088
3. Started the mock service
4. In my request editor submitting a request to the endpoint url "http://127.0.0.1:8088/mockDayOfWeekBinding"
5. Am able get the response back
My question is how can have my end point as "https://127.0.0.1:8443/mockDayOfWeekBinding".

I have configured the SSL settings but its not working.

When I hit the request for the URL https://127.0.0.1:8443/mockStockQuoteServiceSOAP11Binding. The response that I receive is

There are currently 1 running soapUI MockServicesStockQuoteServiceSOAP11Binding MockService

What might be the problem
Please help me :-(

1. The maximum number of threads that can be set for the load testing. In the link http://www.soapui.org/new_and_noteworthy_17.html it is written that the number of threads can be set to 9999. Is it possible to set the number of threads to 9999 in SOAPUI?

2. Is it possible to do parameterization and correlation in SOAPUI? if yes how to do parameterization and correlation

Hi Deepu,
1. Yes, it is possible. See the documentation how to do it: http://www.soapui.org/userguide/loadtest/configuration.html#Thread

2. I'm not sure I understand your question but I suggest you read the documentation about testing webservices with Soap UI and you will find the answers there.

Thanks for your reply,My Second question is that how will we capture Dynamically changing values while doing testing like session id and all.

Is it possible to take particular value from the request . I am getting the following reponse for a webservice which converts temperature in different units.

285.15

I want the converted temperature (ie 285.15) alone . Is it possible to do it in soapui

I have entered the webservice code while i wrote the comment. But it is cleared after submission.
I am using web service which converts temperature in different units. So i have to enter the temperature , two different units like Celsius , fahrenheit. After running the webservice i will get a numerical value as response. I want to capture that value. This can be done in loadrunner. It is called as correlation in loadrunner. I want to know whether this feature is available in SOAPUI

Hi Sankar,
I think you can use a property transfer step for that:
http://www.soapui.org/userguide/functional/propertytransfers.html

This way you can get a value in your response and use as input for your next request for example. See also my post here:
http://www.pascalalma.net/2007/07/11/another-common-issue-solved-with-soap-ui/

Hi,
I am using SaopUI tool for Webservice load testing and i m facing some problem with xml parametarisaton.
Can any one give suggetion on this??
My webservice will take 3 parameters.
1. UserName
2. Password
3. XML data

So i want to parameterise the one of the xml parameters, how can i do this??

Hi Nandeesha,

I assume you use a XSD for the definition of the xml data as the third parameter in your WDSL that describes your web service?
If so, let SOAP UI generate a dummy request for it and fill in the xml test data you want it to use.
See this link for the next step: how to paramterise the xml data:
http://www.soapui.org/userguide/functional/propertytransfers.html

Hope this helps

Hi Pascal,

How test webservices using soapUI2.0.2, i have downladed trial version for testing my weservice.
I have my own webservice and related XML using this how to test.

Earlier i was using Parasoft SOAtest there i will browse and add the wsdl and would paste related XML and validate i will get the respose. so here i am facing problem can explain how to do in soapUI same way
Thanks in advance pascal

Hi Sure,

I don't see any issue in your post. Can't you just follow the steps as I describe in the post? Are you running into some kind of problem??

Hello Pascal,
Your web blog is very exciting and great helpful site.
I am using soapUI 2.0.2 trail version (not the PRO).
I am having problem duing the project creation stage itself.
I entered the project name and Inital WSDL (I am not giving actual url name here. because of policy) https://xxx.xx.xx.xxx/mytest/services/webservicename?wsdl

after pressed OK, a small "progrss window" display the message "Loading WSDL", but nothing is happening. then i cancel it after 10 minutes, i got the error window says
"com.eviware.soapui.support.soapUIException:Error importing wsdl"

could you help me what is missing here and why is not loading the WSDL. is that any special setting required for https:// url link to load wsdl.

Note: If I type the URLhttps://xxx.xx.xx.xxx/mytest/services/webservicename?wsdl
in the browser address bar, I can able to see the WSDL detail and the definition details.

any tips would be great help and i really appreciate that.
Thanks,

Hi Dave,

Thx for the comment.

Off the top of my head this could be caused by a missing proxy configuration. Do you need a proxy to access the server? If so, check the one you have configured in your browser and add these in the preferences of SoapUI (proxy tab)
Let me know if this helps.

Hello Pascal, Thanks for the tips and worked fine. you are correct. in the Proxy settings tab, need to provide proxy name and the port. Excellent.
one more quick question. by using soapUI, i confrmed the webservice are communicating. so that i can send request and receive request using soapUI. but when i develope c# code using .NET, I am not able to getting back the response.

Here is my issue:
I have a soap body and I need to send this soap envelope and receive the respnse.

Please light me on this. how do i develop simple console .NET application using visual studio 2003 to test this SOAP request and the response from the web service.

Thanks a lot pascal. Have a Great day

For example:

sample1234567890
testPayLoad

myprojects/sample/my_sample.xml

comp name
addr1
addr2
kool
programmer

Hello Pascal,
somehow the soap envelope body is not displayed in the area. consider a smiple SOAP envelope text to send the request. Thanks

Hi Dave,

Unfortunately I don't know anything about .NET and Visual Studio (I am more a Java guy ;) ). So i guess if you want to use this it is better if you will have a look somewhere else for an example.

Hi,

I started using soapUI2.0.2. I want to test my webservices with different datasets so that i want to set the values at runtime for soap request. I heard that properties editor will sort out my problem, but could not find properties editor in the free version.

can you please let me know where can i find this editor in soapUI
waiting for ur reply.

Hi Sri,
Have a look here: http://www.soapui.org/userguide/properties.html
and here:
http://www.pascalalma.net/2007/07/11/another-common-issue-solved-with-soap-ui/

That should help you.

Thanks for the reply.

Let me explain the entire stuff that i worked on soapUI.

1) I imported wsdl and created a new project.

2) Added one of the service to TestCase.

3) Created a new Properties step.

4) Added 2 properties in the properties step.

5) After properties step, I clicked Insert Step -> Run TestCase.

6) I got a dialog box which has TestCase, TestSuite and Return properties labels.

7) I could see the TestSuite in the drop down box, but not the test case. Drop down is empty.

i dont know what is going on. can you please help me.

Hi Sri,

I just had a quick look. I haven't used this version and/or the Run testcase step before, but I found this:
You can only select the properties which are defined at the TestCase level. You can do this by selecting the TestCase in the navigator pane and then click the 'properties' button at the bottom of the navigation pane. The properties you define here can be used in the Run Testcase step. The properties in the properties step inside your testcase only have a 'local' scope.
I hope this helps if you didn't find this out already :-)

Hi,

I could set the properties succesfully. Right now the problem is, i am trying to load the input parameters from a text file through a groovy script and placing them in the TestRunContext , in another groovy script i want to use those values. When i try to retrieve, i could see the context values as null.

below is the first groovy script:

def list = []
new File( "testdata.txt" ).eachLine { line -> list.add( line ) }

log.info( "Read " + list.size() + " test values.." )
log.info("read"+list)
context.setProperty( "values", list )
context.setProperty( "index", 0 )

second groovy script:

def values = context.getProperty( "values" )
def index = context.getProperty( "index" );
log.info("values:"+values+"index:"+index)

when i ran the second script i could see values as null. How can i resolve this problem?

thanks again.

TestRunContext

Hi,

I got that worked. The problem is, i am running individual groovy scripts, so that the context is not set at all the instances

thanks again,
sri

Hello Pascal,
How are you. can you recommend any best response site like your blog for .NET/C#/VB.NET forum to ask questions.
Thanks. still i am having hardtime with webservice interaction issue.

Hi Dave,
The best I can offer are the results of Google:
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=msdn+webservice+%23+.net&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta=

Hello Pascal,
Your prompt response is very helpful. Thanks for all your help.
Have a Great day

Hi Pascal,
i started using SOAPUI 2.0.2. I have create a new empty WSDL project, i wand to add my wsdl to the project from url, but get the following error:
Error importing wsdl: org.apache.xmlbeans.xmlException: Error: unexpected character encountered (lex state 12): 'r'.
I don't know what's going on. may you help me?
(Note: the Service work fine with Oracle BPEL Process Manager Console)
thanks in advance

Pat

Hi Pat,

I haven't seen that error before. It might have something to do with file/http encoding.
May be you can open the wsdl in a webbrowser, save it as file and try to use that for your SoapUI project. If you have saved it you can sent it to me so I have a look at it.

Pascal

Hi!

I've a question about . How can I test several webs services at once, with soapUI tool?

Thanks it advance

Hi Gml,
Yes, that's possible. For each SOAP request in your test case you can edit the endpoint to which the request is sent.
hope this helps.

Hi Pascal,
could you send me your eMail-adress at olidong@hotmail.com. the file is to big to paste in this block i supose.

thanks.

Hi,

I have one question.How can I integrate the SOAPUI 2.0.2 Pro with BEA ALSB?

Thanks,

I have one question, i see more about testing webservice using SOAP UI but is there a way to capture the request, save it and replay back?.

Lets say: i am running a client and i want to capture all the requests going to the server, save it and just replay those next time to see if server responds. can this be handled? please let me know your ideas and would appreciate it.

Thank you

How can we trap the request/response xml's using soapui?

@Ram:
You can just put your SOAP requests in a TestCase and rerun this testcase in SoapUI whenever you want. I do not know what you mean by capturing the request. You already have this request because you are sending it with SOAP UI... Or do you want to capture all incoming requests on the serverside, also if they are sent with/from other clients??
Because then you will have to add logic on the server I guess.

@Nidhi:
I don't understand what you mean by integrating them. I assume you deploy/ define your webservice at the Bea Server and you test it with SoapUI as a client???

"I've a question about . How can I test several webs services at once, with soapUI tool?
Yes, that's possible. For each SOAP request in your test case you can edit the endpoint to which the request is sent."

Now, this endpoint is the same in all Soap request??

Thanks Pascal for your response.
You are right.
I want to know what are the features which are supported by SOAPUI Pro only not by others.TestSuite is one of them I think(I dont have much idea about testing tools).
Please let me know your ideas.Based on this information only my team is going to use this tool.

Thanks in advance,

@Gml:
No, you can set the endpoint for all requests in a test case at once, but you can also edit the endpoint for each request separately.

@Nidhi:
I am afraid I can not help you with this one. I have only used the free SoapUI and this had everything I needed. Why don't you give this one a try (it's free after all).

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for your prompt response.

I have a problem in setting dynamic values in the xml.
below is my test xml file which already has dynamic values set

${[TestSuite]no}
${[TestSuite]no}
${[TestSuite]no}

I tried to place a property named "no" in the property step. Through groovy script i am trying to read dynamic values and assign to the property and assigning it to the request xml. For every iteration it is running, following is the request:

002
${[TestSuite]no}
${[TestSuite]no}

only the first property is replaced with the value, the same property is not again replaced with value ..instead it is showing as above? can you please guid me?

Thanks in advance

[...] That's it. You can test your web service with a tool like SoapUI and create test cases based on the generated WSDL like I described here. [...]

@Sri:
I use the 'Property Transfer' step for that. This step comes between the 'Groovy' step and the 'Request' step. In this 'Property Transfer' step you can check a tick box saying 'Transfer to all'. This replaces all matching targets with the property value.
I hope this helps.

Wow pascal..

thats amazing...it really helped me a lot. You are great. Thanks again for your help.

Sri

Hi!

I don't understand the answers about my questions.

I've diferents webs services and I'd like testing them at once.
How can I do it?.

I haven't a web service with several test case I have several web services with a test case each.

Thanks again.

@Gml:
I'll give it another try:
In your TestCase you can add two Test Steps of the type 'Test Request'. For each of the two Test Requests you can set the endpoint. So you can create a 'Test Request' for the endpoint 'http://myserver:8888/myService1' and one for the endpoint 'http://myserver:8888/myService2'. Now if you run this TestCase you actually test the two web services.
I hope this helps...

Hi!
I testing my web service and when the request run, its response is:
Error getting response; java.net.ConnectException: Connection Timed Out. Why?

Thanks

@Gml:
- Your server isn't running
- Your using the wrong port
- You have to use a proxy to get access to he webserver

Most of the times it's one of these things

Hi Pascal, I am trying to run a test case which does not expect any input but expects the output. when I trying to run that test case i am getting error as socketTimeOutException:Read timed out. Could you please give the solution for this? It will be greatful for me.

Anand

@Anand:
Sounds like your service isn't returning anything to the client (SoapUI). This can have a lot of reasons. Are you able to get the WSDL of your service in your browser, for instance? Do you have any logging in your webservice, so you can make sure the code is executed? I suggest you do so some more investigation and then come back with more details about the issue, because this way it is hard to be of any assistance, I'm afraid.

Hi Pascal,

When i ran loadtest, i could not see webservice (soap requests) logs in the loadtest log (either in soapUI/http log). How to enable the logs for the loadtest. I could see "enable" as checked when i tried to right click on the load test log tab.

But when i tried to run the load test, following is the log file:

" INFO:Disabling logs during loadtests "

Please guide me in finding out the way to enable the load test http logs.

Thanks,
sri

Like Glenn 21 September 2007, I am trying to get client certificates working, in my case against IBM Z/OS and CICS Web services.
Before we switched on client certs, we had this working over http using port 1080, then we got it working over https via port 1443 - then we switched on client certs for the Webservice.
I created a cert with the utility:
keytool -selfcert -alias CICSService2 -dname "CN=CICS Service 2, OU=Info Services,o=Adelaide Bank,L=Adelaide,ST=South Australia,C=AU" -genkey -validity 3652

I exported it with
keytool -export -alias CICSService2 -rfc -file .\cicscert.cer

and uploaded and associated it with the appropriate user id on the mainframe.

I set the preferences -> ssl tab to pick up the keystore, but when I test, I get
"A client certificate that maps to a valid userid is required"

on the soapui error log I get
Thu Jun 26 15:35:23 CST 2008:ERROR:org.apache.commons.httpclient.NoHttpResponseException: The server cicrfstw.int.adelaidebank.com.au failed to respond

My question - How can I decide if Soap UI is presenting my certificate?

Hi Pascal,
I want to move the testcases from Soapui pro to vsts.How can I do that?

@Sri:
I don't know about this. I can imagine that soapUI is disabling the logging so it uses all its resources for performing the load test; I don't see why you should log in this kind of test. I believe that error (Soap faults) are shown anyway.

@Nidhi:
I dont know what you mean with 'vsts', but like I said before I don't have any experience wiht the Pro version. One approach could be to use some XSLT process o transform the project's xml file, but I guess this is still a lot of work.

@Roland
If I look at the exception message, I am not sure it is a problem with the certificate, but looks more like an issue with a proxy or something like that. Are you sure soapUI has access to the server and that the server is allowed to send response back through that port?

Thanks Pascal,
I think there is no proxy, because with a wireshark trace I filtered using the real IP address of the target, and saw all the traffic. A trace with filters removed showed bacgkround noise, but nothing of interest.

Hi Pascal,

I want to see the individual soap requests and responses for each input during the load test. where can i check those?

Thanks in advance,
Sri

@Roland
I'm sorry but I am out of options here. I'm afraid I can help you with this from a distance. I hope you're able to solve it yourself. somehow. Let me know if it was something simple, so I (and others) can learn from it ;-)

@Sri
I don't know if that is possible with soapUI. You might log all requests and responses at the server side but that will affect the behaviour of the application. Maybe it is better to build your own client for that so you can create 'handlers' for the logging yourself. Or just have a better look at SoapUI, because the fact that I don't know it, does not mean it is not there!

Hello,
I am using soapUI to test the web services written in C#. I created a new project by importing proper wsdl. I gave correct usernaem , password and ws-password type password digest. But I am getting fault code in my response as " The security token could not be authenticated or authorized ---> WSE563: The computed password digest doesn't match that of the incoming username token". Can anyone please suggest me, how to make the digest computed by soapUI and one by services written in C# compatible.

Thanks
Mohil

Hi,
i am getting below exception when i choosse to open wsdl file from soapui.
""com.eviware.soapui.support.soapUIException:Error importing wsdl""

I have verified that no proxy is set in the browser to access the URL .Pl let me know anything related to configuration settings i need to do do

Hey i got a API of HTMLViewservice called addReportToPage for which am passing reportdefinition which is in xml format.When i run ther service am gettign assertion failure exception

@Sam
Did you have a look at the 'command promt' window of SoapUI? Maybe there is some more nfo there about the exception (stacktrace)?

@Atreya
I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you expect of me about that issue. You have to supply more info about the error, but I think you should first make sure the problem is in SoapUI and not in the xml passing to the service.

Thanks For the Response.
Am calling htmlviewservice addReportToPage().It takes pageid,session id ,and report path and report definition.
I got pageid and sessionid from startPage service and SAWSessionservice.I know the path of the report which i am trying to add it into the page using addReportToPage.
The report definition is in xml format.So when i passon these parameters to addReportToPage it says:

soap:Client
Assertion failure: false at line 126 of

I would like to create a Web Service with to other services and be able to test them with a single click with soapui
Can I do it? how?
Thanks

Hello sam or atreya,

I am using soapUI to test the web services written in C#. I created a new project by importing proper wsdl. I gave correct usernaem , password and ws-password type password digest. But I am getting fault code in my response as ” The security token could not be authenticated or authorized —> WSE563: The computed password digest doesn’t match that of the incoming username token”. Can anyone please suggest me, how to make the digest computed by soapUI and one by services written in C# compatible.

Thanks
Mohil

Continuing the above mail.. the ws-security info that is want to use is as follows:

Here is the WS-Security info. Please let me know if it works for you...

TokenManager Settings:

TokenManager Settings:

Hello Pascal,

I am using soapUI to test the web services written in C#. I created a new project by importing proper wsdl. I gave correct usernaem , password and ws-password type password digest. But I am getting fault code in my response as ” The security token could not be authenticated or authorized —> WSE563: The computed password digest doesn’t match that of the incoming username token”. Can anyone please suggest me, how to make the digest computed by soapUI and one by services written in C# compatible.

These are the security details:

"

TokenManager Settings:

"

Thanks
Mohil

Hello pascal,
I dont know, why I am not able to sumbit my security settings in comment. I will really appreciate if you can give me your mail id so that I can contact you.

Thanks
Mohil

Hi Mohil,

You can send your mail to blog@pascalalma.net .
But I must admit I am not familiair wit .Net and haven't used the ws-password so I am not sure if I can be of any use with this, but you may try, of course :-)

Hello Pascal,
Thanks a lot for your reply.
well I have sent you a mail titled : Problem regarding testing web service on soapUI.

I will really appreciate if you can help me solving the issue.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks
Mohil

@Mohil:
I did some 'googling' and found this thread:
http://wso2.org/forum/thread/3191
They say you should have a security policy defined in your WSDL for .Net services??? They provide this link as an example:
http://131.107.72.15/Security_WsSecurity_Service_Indigo/WsSecurity10.svc?wsdl=wsdl0
I do not see that part in your WSDL, may be that is something to look after. Anyway, I think you can better ask your question on a .Net forum because I think the error is somewhere in the web service configuration, and not in SoapUI, but that is just a guess!

Hello Pascal,
Thanks for your help.
Well I have sent you another mail that deals with soapUI.

I will be grateful if you can help me solving the issue.

Thanks
Mohil

Hi Pascal,
Does SoupUI supports HTTPS protocol...? because our application is having HTTPS.
Thank you,
Ravi

Hi Pascal,
We want to test webservice governance testing using SoapUI 2.0.2. Is it possible to test webservice governance testing using SoapUI 2.0.2.

Thanks.
Girish

Hi Pascal

I would like to know if i can make in Groovy Scrpit some dinamic request before the MockService send the response. I start a request X and have some MockResponse Y. This response Y schoud start request Z with external endpoint and add response Z to his response Y and send this YZ response to X.

Thanks
Marian

Hi, the wsdl file which i have contains a API under htmlviewservice.
Am not able to see all the APIs under htmlviewservice when i opend the wsdl file

@Ravi:
Yes, soapUI supports HTTPS. I have used it many times since our webservice was only accessible by HTTPS.

@Girish:
I am not familiair with 'webservice governance testing' so I cannot answer this question. I know about 'SOA Governance' but I don't see how you can test this, with or without SoapUI. I thought it is more a kind of process you use to get to an successful SOA implementation. Of course, you can test the result (SOA Iimplementation) but how to test the process??

@Marian:
I haven't done that before, but it does not seem impossible to me. Unfortunatley I am very busy at the moment (who isn't??). But you might take a look at the 'property transfer' step. You can copy the respone from one SOAP call to the request of another SOAP call.

@Atreya:
I still don't know how I can help you with this. Did you create the wsdl yourself or is it an existing one?
May be you can sent me the wsdl and your soapUI project? But I must say that I don't know when I have time to look at it.
You can sent it to blog@pascalalma.net.

Hi Mohil,

About the error: I getting the same error in my project! It looks like a bug in Soap UI to me, because I can't find anything wrong in my WSDL/XSD and Soap request, so I would say: ignore this message.

About the PKI key:
In the SoapUI preferences, if you select the tab 'SSL Settings' you can browse to a local (private) keyStore which you want to use with your SSL request. I use it with a .p12 file I generated myself for testing purposes.

Hope this helps.

Mohil wrote:
> Hello Pascal,
> Thanks for your reply.
> Well can you do me another favor.
> I am sending you the request message. On validation, it is giving the error : line-1 missing message pasrt with name [{http://boschxml.org/rb/na/epds/service}GetProduct]. Can you suggest , what could be the reason.
>
> Also, I want to use PKI key store in soapUI. I dont know how to do it. Can you suggest me the way to do this?
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
>
> Thanks
> Mohil

Hi,
I have a login API which takes login credentials and in response i get the sessionid.
I have another API which i call after calling login API and it takes the sessionID as input parameter.
How to passon the sessionid from logon API to another API.Imean can i have a variable defined which holds the sessionid so that i can include it in oteher APIs?

@Atreya
I would make two soap requests and between them a Property Transfer step.
So first call the login API. Then in the Property Transfer step you can copy the session ID from the response of the first call to the request of the second SOAP call and then perform that call.
Hope this helps.

Thanks for response,
Infact i tried property transfers. below are the steps i followed.
I have created a property transfer named sessionid and in that i defined a transfer name sessionid.in the source dropdown i chose logon and property as response.
In the target dropdown i chose the API for which i need to transfer sessionid and in taget propery i chose request.
Is above steps ok?
Where do i need to copy the sessionid under the source property transfer window or under target window?
Do i need to copy every time i run the testcase? is it not possible to have a variable which in run time holds the sessionid and can be called in further APIs?

Infact property transfer is happening but the transferd value contain whole xml data including soap envelope and all and also sessionid between sessonid tags.how to extract only that value in the response?

Atreya,

In the textboxes below the source and target of the property transfer step you have to add a XPath expression to the element you wish to transfer.
So you will get something like:
//the_namespace:sessionIdElementName
see also this post: http://www.pascalalma.net/2007/07/11/another-common-issue-solved-with-soap-ui/

Hi,

I have multiple webservices with multiple endpoints behaving in a synchronous manner.Is there a possible way that I can use soap ui to call the two webservices in the same test suite using multiple endpoints.

Hi,

I am using SoapUI Tool to test our webservices.

i have multiple webservices. i am executing all those webservices at a time by creating test suite.

Is it possible to save Request & Response (together) in SoapUI tool.

Can any body help me out to do this.

Thanks

Vidya Rekha B

I have a mainframe web service on port 8080, which I can connect to with my .Net applications (and currently use) as well as through IE and Firefox. However when I try to connect through SoapUI, it fails to connect. I am specifying the same address I put into IE and Firefox (which includes the port, e.g. http://mainframe:8080/'path/service?wsdl).

I used WireShark (previously Etherreal) to inspect the packets and I found that SoapUI is trying to connect on port 80 regardless of specifying port 8080.

So, I did some further investigation and tried connecting to a web service that was on port 80 and 8888 and both worked great.

SoapUI is an excellent tool and I hope I can use it with my mainframe web services.

Does anyone know what I can do to fix the issue and force SoapUI to use the port I specify?

@Gary:
Yes, that is possible. Someone else asked the same in the comments. Check might check them for a possible solution

@Vidya:
I haven't done that before, so I don't know. But it looks possible to me. Otherwise you have to log it at the serverside (in some protected area, so you can control who is using the service). Most Webservice frameworks have a solution for that.

@Brock:
I am also using port 8080 in SoapUI so that doesn't seem to be the problem here. Could it be a problem that Soap UI is doing a http POST request and the browser are doing GET requests? You might check that.

Hi Pascal,
Thanks for your quick response. One more question, I have done webservice load testing using SoapUI is it possible to export the graphs from the tool?

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for your blog. It is very informative.

I am using soapUI 2.0.2 (free download) trying to get my mock service to use a keystore. I have generated the keystore file and placed the proper configurations in the settings. When I launch the mock service, the performance on my box suffers horribly, to the point if I click on the "I" to get a look at the WSDL, it takes minutes for a browser to pop up, and I have not yet had the patience to wait to see if the WSDL is ever displayed. When I remove the SSL settings, performance is back to what is expected. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Thanks,
Paul

@Girish
I am not aware of any export functionality, other then the print screen one ;-). But please keep in mind I am only a simple (and enthousiastic) user of SoapUI and I do not know all things about it (yet).

@Paul
It looks like the used SSL port is blocked and SoapUI is waiting for it or something. I must say I haven't seen this behaviour before, so I am afraid I can't help you with this.

I am using SOAP UI 2.0.2(latest) for by SOAP load testing. I loaded WSDL files to tool and written Groovy script to vary the contact name(for contact addition example) for each and every contact add sent to server in load test. But the problem is i need to verify the response, since failure response is also a SOAP body the tool is taking the response as success and not showing it as error. Some times i see no response sent from my server but still tool doesn't capture it as failure(err). If i send 100 ContactAdd requets(delay of 1 sec with each req) i see only 80 to 90 conatcts are added successfully in database but my SOAP UI tool still shows it as no error and all 100 success. Pls help me asap in this regard and i tried hard to come out of this but couldn't. Pls reply ASAP.

Thank u.

Back to this from June 08. I have looked closer a the wireshark trace, the client is presenting no client certificates to the Web service. I wonder what it takes to make it do so - I will keep changing wheels till I find the flat one.

@Raghavendra:
I have had similar behaviour too in a testcase. And although I was told it had something to do with soap UI it appeared to be a bug in our web service implementation. Our implementation was not completely thread safe. So maybe you can check that in your case too??
Another option is to add 'Assertions' to your response so that SoapUI will check the content of the repsonse for a specific tag/text and/or it will validate the response against the schema configured in the WSDL.

Hi,
I’m new to SoapUI and I am trying to insert the values dynamically in request by reading the values from external source, so anybody can tell me how I can do this?

@Amruta:
You can take this post as an example:
http://www.pascalalma.net/2007/07/11/another-common-issue-solved-with-soap-ui/
The first step (properties step) can also be based on the contents of an external property file.
I hope this helps.

Thanx pascal, adding assertion to response solved my issue.

I pascal,
I have configured 6 proxies in my ALSB console and i want to test them in SOAPUI. When i import the WSDL using http://localhost:7001/proxyname?WSDL i am able to do it for 5 of them. But one service returns an error "Unexpected element TAG_END". Can you help me with it?
Thanks
sandeep

Hi Sandeep,

I haven't seen this before in Soap UI. It looks like it is an issue with the 6th proxy. What do you get as WSDL when you open it in a web browser? Do you see the term 'TAG_END' there??

Hi Pascal,

I am trying to perform Load testing using SOAP UI tool wherein we have to send multiple requests to one web service each after some time interval, I have added three steps in the test case 1. Data Source 2. Test Request 3. Data loop

I have to submit the multiple Test requests each one after some time interal say 6 sec. but "step 2. - Test Request" itself takes 20 sec. to get the response from WSDL so it will wait for 20sec. to move to nest step i.e. "step 3. -Data loop" and then again it will initiate request with different Inputs parameters from Data Source. So in this way we will not be able to send the multiple requests every 6 secs. (regardless of response for each run)

Could you please help me our here, how can I simulate this scenario?

Thanks!

Hi Pascal,

Please help me out here ASAP.... I am in need of it.

I want to send multiple requests asynchronously how would I be able to do this using SOAP UI?

Hi Niranjan,
You might take a look at this post:
http://www.pascalalma.net/2007/07/11/another-common-issue-solved-with-soap-ui/

In this post I use the load test option of SoapUI to run many threads simultaneously. But I am not sure if this is what you want with your test case.
But when processing a SOAP request takes 20 seconds and you want your web service to receive a request every 6 seconds from the same client you might want to change the implementation of your web service, so it is not processing calls in a synchronized way but asynchrone.
Hope this helps.

Thanks Pascal for your reply,

I can not use threads as every time I want to send the request with different input parameters and also I cannot change the web service as it is not designed by me....but I am going to test the same.

Do you think, is there any other way to achive this?

hi paskal,

I need to send 15k request per second to test load and performance of webservice, could you please tell me what sort of steps need to be prformed for it.

hi pascal, i need it asap plz if u could help me out? thanks

Hi,

I usually test my soapui project files with Ant and provide a '-e' flag with testRunner.sh that I use in build.xml file.

I need to make a groovyScript Test Step in few of my test cases that are supposed to be run on different endpoint than defined in '-e' flag.

Is there a way to enforce change of endpoint dynamically while my tests are running through Ant?

Can you please provide a groovyScript Code Snippet for the same solution.

Here is what I tried but didn't worked:
def currentTestStep = testRunner.testCase.getTestCaseByName("XxxTestStepName");
currentTestStep.setEndPoint("http://localhost/soapapp/appId=3");

There is no such thing like testStep.setEndPoint(). Can please tell me how to go about it as I can't figure this out in SoapUI API Docs.

I tried following code and it did work in SoapUI but when i used it from Ant with 'testRunner.sh', it became useless. Looks like testRunner.sh '-e' flag overrides everything...

GroovyScript Snippet:
def currentTestSuite = testRunner.testCase.getTestSuite()
log.info(currentTestSuite.getLabel())
def prj = currentTestSuite.getProject()
log.info(prj.getPath())
def iface = prj.getInterfaceByName("InquireServiceHttpBinding")
iface.changeEndpoint("http://localhost/soap/oldEndpoint","http://localhost/soap/newEndpoint")

Well, I've another idea of using my persistent properties file for the same cause... It would definitely work, but can you please give me some hint in code to SET endpoint on testStep level instead of CHANGING it on Interface level...

Awaiting Response...

Is it possible to use soapUI from java code? I mean, to use some soapUI jars?
I have about 80 webservices running and what i want to do is write a java servlet that constantly send and recieve soap messages to and from webservices - some sort of soapUI load test but the interface is accessed from the web browser.

I've managed to do that without soapUI, but its a lot of work to prepare a single servlet for a given webservice.

I've read about soapUI sources that have to be built with maven. I've started to play with it but i had to gave up because it took me too much time to make maven (really odd tool:) start compiling sources and i cant afford to play whit it any longer.

Maybe there are ready-to-use soapUI jars somewhere and I cant see them?? Please, help me.

Hey Pascal... I found out simple way of using multiple endpoints through use of external properties file to soapui project file and then using property expansion within suite. All this, without using any '-e' flag with 'testRunner.sh' because I am having similar effect with property expansion within suite this time with multiple endpoints unlike 'testRunner.sh' '-e' flag.

Thanks anyways... :)

@All:
Sorry I didn't reply sooner to your questions, but I have been out for a while ( on a wel deserved holiday ;) )

@Pablo:
I haven't tried that but it seems to me it must be possible. I know it is possible to run SoapUI projects with Maven, but based on your comment I guess you are not a big fan of Maven?? May be you should give it another try with Maven because I think it is a great 'tool', not only for this specific purpose but for your complete build/test and deploy cycle of your application.

@Tamoor:
I understand you have it working now?? This is also a thing I haven't needed before but I am still learning this way :-)

@Sudhansu:
I would suggest to set up a load test as described in the Soap UI manual. If you run into any problem with that you can ask here if someone can help you with it.

@Niranjan:
I am not sure how to solve your problem. If you can't use the multiple thread option somehow of SoapUI you might run several threads of Soap UI it self???
Otherwise it might be handier to build your own web service client so you have full control of it.

Folks,

Wonder if anyone has encountered a problem with NLS/Non Ascii Characters in the URL?

http://jacro12w2k3:9082/P303/S_VIEWS_IM_EX_ÃÑÑÖÏÑG_BeanService?wsdl

Regarding my post Time: 25 September 2008, 8:15 am
I've made it to run soapUI API and its really fun but poorly documented. I've searched all soapUI sourceforge forum and i havent found a way to set request values :( But i ll keep on trying.

Hi Pascal,

I have a query on data parametrization in SoapUI. I have a requirement where i need to use a unique values in the "Request" every time i execute the test case (as a part of Load Testing". I tried adding the values in the "input-property file" and importing the values but the soapui system is loading only the one value from the entire file. is there any defined way of adding values in the input-property file before importing the values or is there any other better way/workaround for this?? could you pls help me in this.

Hi Pascal,

I have test cases where it it necessary to send a request, get a response and then base the next request on values from the response (e.g TransactionId).

So my question is ... Is it possible to automatically via scripts or java to capture a response and use the data from the response to populate the data from the request.

@Sriram
@MP

You should both have a look at this post:
http://www.pascalalma.net/2007/07/11/another-common-issue-solved-with-soap-ui/
Both your problems should be answered by using the construction I showed their by combining properties with Groovy step and property transfers.
Hope this helps.

hello, i am stucked with a problem that, for load test if suppose i have 1000 requests to send in a 1 minute, after hitting this i am seeing among these 1000 only one 1 request is getting processed multiple times, plz help me how to proces all the requests in cerain limit.

can somebody let us klnow what are the protocols supported by SOAP UI

@Priya:
I found this in the user guide:
"Internally, soapUI abstracts the actual nature of projects and their contained interfaces, tests, etc... opening the possiblity of support for other service definitions or protocols than WSDL / SOAP (check out the com.eviware.soapui.model package). Currently though, the only implementation for these interfaces is for WSDL 1.1 and the SOAP/HTTP binding (as required by Basic Profile 1.0). Therefore, all actions and functionality described will be in regard to this implementation."

Hi pascal ,
if i make a project in soap ui and test suites for it . can i run all the test suits at a time ??? for a same endpoint ....

Hi Prasad,

So I understand correctly: you want to execute all test suites at the same moment to test your service as if you have multiple clients calling the web service?
I would just run your test suite with multiple threads in a load test. Is that an option?

Hi pascal ,
Thx for your reply , but actually let me put a question in a diff way .. i want to run all projects or multiple projects with each project having single test suite which covers the funcinality of that WSDL. Is this possible in a single click and to get the reports for all the projects separatley .

Hi Pascal,

I have a query on Data Parameterization and template driven testing in SoapUI. I have written a groovy first script to import the data from external file and i was able to successfully import data into SoapUI from an external file. however i am stuck up with the second script where i am not sure how to transfer the imported value to the test case. Could you please help me with this.

Hi pascal,
I want to automate the steps done in Soap uI , i wanted to automatically collect the required data from database and want to place in the test case. and i should be able to loop it . so in just click i can execute test case for more than one data . I tried data source loop but there also you have to click number of times to execute all the steps plz help me out

Hey guys i just want to confirm tht whether we can make an xml file of soap-ui that will consist of both the request and the response
Currently i m getting an xml file that is containing the request and the wsdl
So can anyone help me in generating the xml file
Thanks in advance

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Iam using SOAP UI for Performance Testing.Iam using an ssl certificateprovided by the client.Iam getting the response time sometimes,but sometimes iam getting an error message with javax.net.ssl.sslexception:Recieved fatal alert:Unexpected_message.Please help and provide a solution.

Hi Pascal,

Iam using SOAP UI 3.0 for Performance Testing Web Service.Iam getting the response time on running the Test ,but sometimes getting an error
Javax.net.ssl.sslexception:Recieved fatal alert:Unexpected_Message.
Could you Please provide a solution for this

To be helpful I need more info. What tests are you running (multiple threads, msg/sec) and what it the stacktrace for the error. Is the server using http1.0 or 1.1, etc. Actually it can be a lot of things going wrong but you might give it a shot by supplying some more info.
And since your performing a performance test, is it really an issue, I mean, do you meet the performance specs before the error occurs? Because then you won't have to bother about it ;-)

Error:"javax.net.ssl.sslexception"Fatal Alert:Unexpected_Message
Test Detail:
SSl Certificate of .pem format added to ssl settings with keystore password
Http version:1.0
Input XML along with WSDL File is given i/p to SOAP UI.
WSDL FILE contain server endpoint(web service) where validation take place.
Iam getting exact response sometimes,but sometimes getting this error message since the application is not stable i cannot move forward.
Plese let me know why this error is coming???is it due to ssl certificate or due to some settings in server???????

Hmm, still hard to tell.
Can you try the webservice with another tool then SoapUI (Java client or something like that) to see if SoapUI is the problem or the server?
A quick google showed it could have to do with the HTTP protocol being 1.0 and not 1.1, maybe you can chage that in the SoapUI prefs to see if it helps.

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I am impressed with the nice article and blog, Keep up the good work!!!
Service Oriented Architecture

I want to test Web services of Google Calendar API using SoapUI or Yahoo Calendar.

i found the link but Soapui is unable to find Wsdl .

can you help me this

Hi Krunall,

Have you read this post: http://blog.redstream.nl/2009/07/05/error-import-wsdl-in-soapui/
It might help you to solve your problem. Let me know if it helped.

Hi , I am New to SOAP UI Tool can u explain the functioning of tool and utilisation of tool

I have the same problem. I use SoapUI 3.5, and sometimes I get the soapUI javax.net.ssl.SSLException received fatal alert unexpected_message error.

I have noticed that the certificate is not (completely) correct, the name of the machine is not the name as in the certificate.

But I have no solution yet :-(

Hi Pascal,
I'm currently using the SOAP UI 3.5 to attach client certificate.
On the preference tab I did mention the certificate key location.
Also i did attach the certificate to the web service and gave the password.
Still i dont see the certificate getting attached to the message header.
The Web Service throws forbidden error from the server.
Any suggestion would help
Regards
Sabir

@Sabir,
I guess you followed these steps: http://www.soapui.org/userguide/projects/wss.html
otherwise you should check if you forgot a step, because this functionality has worked for me (in older versions).

@Henk
I do not have a simple solution for this as I said before. This could have many reasons and I do not known if soapUI is doing something wrong here.
I guess you are not able to recreate the certificate so that it matches the name of the machine? That would remove one possibility as a reason. And can you supply some more error info, maybe it triggers someone else who has been in the same situation.