Chapter 3. First Steps with soapUI and Projects

As we have completed building our sample web services project, it is time to discover the testing aspects of web services with soapUI. In this chapter, we will look into the basics of web services testing using the features provided by soapUI. We plan to cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Detailed study of the sample guest management web service
  • How to build a soapUI project to invoke operations of the sample service
  • Study SOAP requests, responses, and faults using the sample service

Invoking web services through soapUI is pretty straightforward as compared to most of the other alternative tools such as Apache JMeter. What we will be focused on is how soapUI features can be utilized in an effective ...

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