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ChrisA
Contributor
9 years ago

General Question : Why do so many SoapUI users appear to use Groovy scripts to run tests?

Hi,   Apologies, this is just a general question and not an issue.  I've been using SoapUI for about five years now.  In the main, I have used it for testing a set of SOAP Services and a RESTful AP...
ChrisA's avatar
ChrisA
Contributor
9 years ago

Hi Bill,

 

Thank you.  These are just the sorts of things I use Groovy for too.  IMHO, it's the ability to script where there isn't a standard step that makes SoapUI so powerful.

 

Chris

 

 

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nmrao
Community Hero
9 years ago
ChrisA,

SoapUI provides user to utilize the power of groovy within the tool.

Generally, I put the groovy scripts related to SoapUI in my github repot, may be it is possible to refer in case if there is a need.

https://github.com/nmrao/soapUIGroovyScripts

Of course, you can search for similar questions here in this forum or stackoverflow as well.
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    ChrisA
    Contributor
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Agreed.  When I first started using SoapUI and more specifically, Groovy scripting, my scripts tended to be script assertions.

     

    The script assertion would contain Groovy that I copied and pasted to other tests.  It didn't take long for this to become unmanageable, so I then started creating external classes that sit in the bin/scripts folder of SoapUi.  The script assertion only then needs to create an object from the class and run the main method.