Web Services Testing with soapUI

Chapter 11. Extending soapUI with Scripting

The default features and utilities provided by soapUI are more than enough for us to explore the world of web services testing and build flexible test suites. When we become more and more familiar with the standard features of soapUI, we naturally tend to think about the extension possibilities. We need to extend the default functionalities provided by soapUI due to various reasons. For example:

• To minimize overhead maintenance of soapUI tests.
• Automated or manual execution of tests becomes a pain if we are supposed to do dramatic changes of tests when moving between various environments such as development, staging, and production, or when upgrading the services.
• To reduce complexities of building tests. ...