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 Description
ITKO (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 Steps
Test 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 scenario
Test case is a collection of Test Steps grouped together to build complete
framework
Test 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/SOAP
Service
MQ
Service
Provider
Testers
Driver
data
Test data
Requests Framework
SoapUI
Hermes JMS
DB
SOAP/REST Request
SOAP/REST Response
JDBC Request
Query Results
Reports
Automated e-
mail
SUT
JMS
Test Data Source
Configuration

Demo

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