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DaveOwens
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16 years ago

Use SoapUI to Monitor a working Asp.Net Web Service

I have SoapUI installed on an Asp.Net-3.5 Web Service server.  And, I have a perfectly good Service client test program on my PC.  And I can successfully create a SoapUI project using the .asmx?WSDL URL.

I hope that I can use SoapUI to monitor perfectly good Requests and Responses.  So far, with much looking, the available tutorials for Monitoring seem thin.  Might you have a better one?

I bog down when I right click, Launch Soap Monitor and try to fill in the dialog.  I assume I use Http Proxy.  Picking a port number seems tricky.  Port 80 is used by IIS and Asp.Net, but I cannot use it.  It gives an "Address already in use" error.

Guessing, then I must use another port.  But then how do I get all 3
  1) the web service
  2) the client and
  3) SoapUI

All working together on the same port so I can see the Requests and Responses?  Surely there must be some nice introductory explanation that you can steer me to.  Thank you for any help....

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  • patelakhil's avatar
    patelakhil
    Contributor
    16 years ago
    Hi,

    Why are you using proxy? User directly without proxy and check.

    Let me know if any more information is required.

    Thanks,
    Akhilkumar Patel
  • DaveOwens's avatar
    DaveOwens
    New Contributor
    16 years ago
    Akhilkumar,

    Thank you for your prompt reply.  I very much need to understand your "User directly without proxy and check" phrase/idea.  I chose proxy from my limited understanding of the Asp.Net 2.0 implementation.  Your idea sounds much nicer 

    Please help me find a good tutorial/documentation.  It SOUNDS like using SoapUI Monitor is correct, but I need to use it differently, as you say without the proxy.  Please confirm.  Please send some good tutorial/documentation links.  Or, please send me some good Google search keywords, or page numbers to the correct passages in the SoapUI PDF users guide.

    Thank you again.  I look forward to your reply and getting started.

    Dave Owens
  • DaveOwens's avatar
    DaveOwens
    New Contributor
    16 years ago
    Akhilkumar,

      More.  Since SoapUI offers Mocking and Data Driven testing, I'm concerned that I need to nail down their merits as opposed to Monitoring. 

        I chose Monitoring because I have a perfectly good Server service and perfectly good client test program.  If so, then all I need to do, via SoapUI, is to capture snapshots of the Soap Requests and Responses.  So is Monitoring correct.

      However, your answer "user directly" MAY hint at either Mocking or Data Driven testing.  Might I have to throw away my client test and, instead, mimic/mock it on the server?  Both my request and response structures are complex, and I hope to avoid that.

      Can you please help me with these basics?  Can I Monitor the server and client and simply get Soap snapshots?  Or, does "User directly" mean more active mimic/mocking intervention?

    Dave Owens