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Web Services Testing with soapUI
Web Services Testing with soapUI

Web Services Testing with soapUI: Starting with an overview of SOA and web services testing, this guide take you through a number of hands-on exercises and projects to get you familiar with soapUI. A sure way to raise the quality of your web services.

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Web Services Testing with soapUI

Chapter 2. The Sample Project

In this book, we follow a hands-on approach for learning web services testing with soapUI. We strongly recommend you to have your computer with you while reading the book and try out the test scenarios which will be described throughout this book.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Getting the project environment ready

  • Designing the web services

  • Implementing the web services

  • Deploying the web services

As the first step of hands-on learning, we will introduce a sample project in this chapter. Our objective is to build a simple yet comprehensive project which covers the considerable amount of features related to web services testing. We will design and build a sample project with a few web services. We start from scratch, following the code-first web service development approach where we write Java classes first and then deploy them in a web service container.

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There are two ways of developing web services; contract-first and code-first approaches...

The problem domain


Our project will be based on a hypothetical Hotel Reservation System, which is targeted for use by an administrative staff of a hotel. The system consists of three basic functions as follows:

  1. Guest management

  2. Room management

  3. Reservation management

Let's look at the high level architecture of the sample hotel reservation application that we are going to discuss in this chapter:

The hotel reservation system comprises of three fundamental entities; Guest, Room, and Reservation. Each guest is identified by name, address, and age. The rooms are identified by room number, room type, and room size. A room reservation is done by assigning a guest to a room.

We are not going to make our project too complicated since our focus is to derive a set of web services for testing with soapUI in the next chapters. Therefore, we deliberately omit some interrelationships between these entities. For example, we assume that a guest can do only one reservation at a time.

Project pre-requisites


Before starting to implement the project, let's make the project environment ready.

Java

We are going to develop the sample project using Java. Therefore, make sure to install JDK1.6 or later version in your machine.

Apache Ant

We will be using Apache Ant to build our project. Of course, you may use any build tool you prefer.

You can download the latest version of Apache Ant from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi and follow the installation guide to set up Ant on your machine.

MySQL

MySQL will be used as the database management system in our sample project. All data used in sample hotel reservation system will be stored in a MySQL database. Therefore, we should set up MySQL in our machines. We can download MySQL from http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ and follow the instructions given in the installation guide to set it up on your machine.

Setting up Apache Axis2

There are numerous web service frameworks which can be used in web services development and deployment...

Designing the web services


Our sample hotel reservation system is implemented using SOAP-based web services. As per the three basic entities used in the system, we can plan to have three web services explained as follows:

  • GuestManagementService:

    GuestManagementService will be used to add, delete, or retrieve the details of guests in system. This web service consists of the following methods:

    • addGuest (name, address, age)

    • getGuestDetails (name)

    • deleteGuest (name)

  • RoomManagementService:

    Adding, deleting, and retrieving the details of rooms are managed by the RoomManagementService which includes the following methods:

    • addRoom (roomNumber, roomType, roomSize)

    • getRoomDetails (roomNumber)

    • deleteRoom (roomNumber)

  • ReservationService:

    ReservationService is used to manage the room reservations of the system, such as creating a new reservation, finding out the reservation details of a particular room, and removing an existing reservation. The following methods are included in this web service:

    • addReservation...

Implementing the web services


As we have seen under Designing the web services section, we are going to use three different web services to handle the guest, room, and reservation management functions. We have also discussed that three MySQL tables are used to store information in each of these web services. Let's put together all these elements and start to implement our system.

First, we should define the guest, room, and reservation Java beans which are used as data transferring objects in our system.

The complete source of all Java bean classes can be found at src\com\sample\reservation\dto folder of the code bundle.

  • Guest.java:

    Guest.java is a Java bean which represents a guest entity in our system. The class consists of the name, address, and age variables as well as their corresponding getter/setter methods.

     package com.sample.reservation.dto;
    
    public class Guest {
    
        private String name;
        private String address;
        private int age;
    
        public Guest(String name, String address...

Deploying web services


Though we developed all the Java classes included in our sample hotel reservation system, we have not made them web services yet. In other words, still, our three web service implementation classes cannot be invoked by a web service client, such as soapUI. In this section, we make a deployable artifact so that we can deploy the services in a service container such as Apache Axis2.

There are multiple ways of deploying a web service in the Apache Axis2 SOAP engine. We will use the service archive-based deployment mechanism where we create a deployable archive with all service artifacts and copy that into the Axis2 server's deployment folder. In this mechanism, the deployable artifact is known as an Axis2 Archive (aar).

In order to deploy an Axis2 service as an aar file, a deployment descriptor should be included with it. The Axis2 deployment descriptor is known as services.xml and must be placed inside the META-INF folder of the aar file. The services.xml tells the Axis2...

Summary


We dedicated this chapter to create a sample project, which used a few web services to implement a simple hotel room reservation system. We started from scratch and created three Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs). Then we exposed them as web services by deploying in Apache Axis2. These three web services, namely GuestManagementService, RoomManagementService, and ReservationService will be used throughout this book. All our discussions of soapUI will be based on these services. Hence, even if you did not follow the sample project, it is advisable to download WebServicesSample-Deliverable.zip from http://www.PacktPub.com/support, follow the instructions given in README.txt to deploy HotelReservation.aar on Apache Axis2, and get the services ready to try out the soapUI samples which we will discuss in the next chapters.

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Key benefits

  • Become more proficient in testing web services included in your service-oriented solutions
  • Find, analyze, reproduce bugs effectively by adhering to best web service testing approaches
  • Learn with clear step-by-step instructions and hands-on examples on various topics related to web services testing using soapUI

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Quality is a key to success of service-oriented projects. Utilization of proper tools is important to the outcome of web service testing methodology. Being the leading open source web services testing tool, soapUI helps to build robust and flexible automated tests in a productive manner. "Web Services Testing with soapUI" guides you on adopting best web service testing mechanisms with the industry leading open source testing tool, soapUI. You will learn to use soapUI effectively in testing service-oriented solutions focusing on testing functional as well as non-functional characteristics of web services. SoapUI is capable of testing JDBC data sources, web applications, RESTful services and web services exposed over transports such as JMS. The book discusses all these features and much more, in detail, through practical and clear examples. This book is focused on learning soapUI in order to test web services in an effective manner. It starts with a general introduction to service-oriented architecture (SOA) followed by testing aspects of service-oriented solutions. This book aims to give readers a comprehensive overview of usage of soapUI in SOA and web services testing projects. Starting with an overview of SOA and web services testing, you will quickly get your hands dirty with a sample project which makes use of open source web service engine, Apache Axis2. All demonstrations and hands-on exercises are based on this sample project. The tests in a soapUI project are organized into TestSuites, TestCases and TestSteps. You will also learn how soapUI can be used for both functional and non-functional testing. The book then teaches how by using groovy scripting and integrating with Junit and maven, soapUI can easily be used in automated web services testing. By the end, you'llhave learned to test functional and non-functional aspects of web services and automate by integrating into continuous build systems using soapUI.

Who is this book for?

This book directly targets software quality assurance professionals, software project managers, and software developers interested in automated or manual testing web services and SOA. Whether you are a seasoned SOA professional or a novice user, with this book you'll learn to effectively use soapUI in testing service-oriented solutions for functional as well as non-functional web services.

What you will learn

  • Build a simple application based on web services which are deployed on Apache Axis2
  • Identify performance bottlenecks of service-oriented solutions
  • Invoke web services developed as part of a sample project using soapUI
  • Extend the sample soapUI project with TestSuites, TestCases and TestSteps
  • Validate the responses using various assertions, and use of soapUI properties in tests
  • Simulate web services with soapUI, use of static and dynamic responses
  • Test web services configured with WS- policies (WS-Security, WS-Addressing)
  • Test JDBC datasources and services exposed over JMS and integrate soapUI with maven and Junit

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The Sample Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
First Steps with soapUI and Projects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Your First TestSuite Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Load and Performance Testing with soapUI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Advanced Functional Testing with soapUI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with REST Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Testing Databases with soapUI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The book is a very efficient guide to using soapUI. It introduces all the soapUI functions and provides a thorough explanation.There's also a user guide on soapUI website, but this book is much better organized and easier to understand.The book is a very good choice both for beginners and those who want to explore soapUI in more detail.
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