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smartTest
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14 years ago

Groovy Script when Response Contains 'X' GoTo 'Step Y'

A colleague has asked me a question about something he is trying to do in SoapUI to make his Load testing easier. He is looking for a Groovy script that will do something like the below: If... the...
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14 years ago
smartTest wrote:
If... the preceeding response step
Contains String...... HTTP response
Then

timesRetried = 0
previousResponse = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName( 'Name Of Preceeding TestStep' ).testRequest.response.contentAsString
if( previousResponse.contains('HTTP response') )
{

smartTest wrote:
GoTo the preceeding resopnse step and try again, To a maximum of 'X' times

    if ( timesRetried++ <= x )
        testRunner.gotoStepByName( 'Name Of Preceeding TestStep' )
}



Something along those lines. Note that the code is not actually using the logical preceeding TestStep, but a hardcoded name of a TestStep. I left this out for simplicity.

When I write code like this, I find the soapUI API very useful.

Hope this gets you in the right direction!

Henrik
SmartBear Software