How use SOAP UI to test a Web Service?

Nowadays, in our activities, we need to test a Web service, and, here, there is a simple form to do it, like present in this article.

As essential and previous requirement, you must have to installed SOAP UI. If not have it, It can download it in the follow link:

https://www.soapui.org/downloads/soapui.html

You can to find the Open Source SOAP UI, and, although it doesn't have certain characteristics, you can to learn and use much of these. With all this, you won't know the 100% of this tool.

If it is already installed, we only open the application, and we start to use it.

Let's do it. We start to create a SOAP UI new project.

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How create a new project in SOAP?

It is very simple. Click in the menu and look for the respective option. That's say, click in File, and then in New SOAP Project.

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Or simply, click in a SOAP button.

For the twice options, It will show the creation project window.

In this window, you must write the project name.

Note: Name that identifies the functionality. So, if you don't have defined a standard, you always must try named it that you identify it.

In the Initial WSDL field, you write the web service WSDL.

And then, you choice the options that it needs for the project, creates sample requests for all operations or methods. And creates a Test suite for the imported WSDL. It is according, the need of the tests to realize.

Click in OK. It will show the window of Test suite creation.

You must to choice to create a test case for every operation or method, and, besides, It creates new empty requests.

Important Note: We send to the service the XML in the request. The service send us a response. Topics that correspond, to this blog, but that require them of much more profundity, for future topics of the tool.

Click in OK. You write the title to the Test suite and accept.

And ready, the project is imported as new.

You must believe in me when I tell you: we have much way to run and it is only the beginning. So, you can hope much more blogs about this topic.