How start learning soapui

Welcome!

soapui.org is the good resource for you to start with. Of course, you may use the forum as aslo good resource and post your quries if you dont see them in the existing topics.

Good luck.

Learning SoapUI can be very easy or very difficult depending on your current level of skills and your expectations from SoapUI. If you are wanting to just 'use' SoapUI as a basic smoke test style tool than it should be rather simple to manually edit the test steps on an as-needed basis. If your wanting the test cases to dynamically update themselves from a datasource than it can become extremely difficult.

I have a post on SQA.StackExchange that I think is a decent introduction to SoapUI and some of the different things you should look into learning in order to become more adept with SoapUI. Depending on your desired skill level will depend on what you need to learn though.

Hi Paul,

I have lot confusion here in soapui, not sure from where I need to start learning.

Actually I want to learn basics of soapui (Topcis, links, etc) and how to use in real scenarios (Basic examples, links, etc).


Thanks,
R..

So a basic, generic overview of SoapUI:

SoapUI is a tool that opens up a socket on your computer, takes the information that you put into a visual representation of the request and transmits that data to a system and then displays a visual representation of the response. That is the most basic core functionality of SoapUI.

There is several other pieces that makes SoapUI more complex and easier to use.

Example of some Features

• SoapUI has the ability to automatically import WSDLs


• SoapUI can support several different types of requests/responses


• SoapUI supports the ability to mock a service


• SoapUI's true power is in the Groovy Scripting language, allowing you to program it to do essentially anything you need it to.

Sadly, to compile 1 single tutorial for SoapUI would either be far too large to be useful for anyone since it would encompass so much information that about 25% would be useful to you or it would leave out information that is useful to 75% of the other users.

The best way to go about learning SoapUI is to just use it, as you run into an issue, google it. If you can't find the answer, ask a question here (Or on SQA.StackExchange) and someone will be of assistance (it might take a while though).

Thank you so much Paul . Appreciated.

If you have any questions on a specific feature or based on what you are attempting to accomplish, it would be wise to ask those questions and have others assist in your learning process.