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yahiatene
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6 years ago

Health-check for SOAP UI Pro in continuous integration with Jenkins

Hello, Most of tools dispose of “health check” routine that verify that everything is OK before starting the CI pipeline. So before executing the SoapUI tests in Jenkins I want to verify that : ...
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nmrao
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yahiatene 

 

While I agree with groovyguy , following are my remarks.

In the pre-build step, try the following

1.  testrunner is a file after all. You can can check it exists

2. Depends on the type of the licence. If it is fix type assigned to (which is the preferred type at least for CI builds) jenkins machine, no need to bother about it. It will be problem only if you are using floating licence and some other guy in the team is using it.

3. I think you may use some  plugin  so that call http request (for the application under test) as part of pre-build step for the endpoint and see if that is giving 200 OK.

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yahiatene
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

Hi nmrao,

Thank you very much for your answer and your remarks, I have already done the existence test for the testRunner. We use floating licenses so it's a little hard to check their availability. Regarding the last remark, could you give me a little more details on how to do that? And is it possible to block access to a license if it is already being used ?

Thank you again
Best regards
Mohamed

  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    6 years ago
    #3, Use the below plugin for Jenkins and call your host:post to see 200 OK as part of per-requisite step before invoking actual build.
    https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/HTTP+Request+Plugin

    "is it possible to block access to a license if it is already being used " - As there is no way to check automatically, so need not worry. If build is scheduled your evening hours (most of the employees would be left by then and license would be free), you should be good.
    • sonya_m's avatar
      sonya_m
      SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
      6 years ago

      nmrao, thank you a lot! 

       

      Hi yahiatene , did you have a chance to try out the Jenkins plugin that nmrao is suggesting here? Please let us know whether it helped your cause. 

      • yahiatene's avatar
        yahiatene
        Occasional Contributor
        5 years ago

        nmrao sonya_m, thank you and sorry for the delay.
        In my case the company's licence server is not easily accessible with an HTTP request from a jenkins job and even if I do that successfully, it just returns that the server is available and it didn't check if the licences are available. I'm trying another solution which consists on parsing the jenkins console output of SoaupUIPro pipeline to know if we get the right messages or not, hoping it will work !

        Regards,
        Mohamed.

    • yahiatene's avatar
      yahiatene
      Occasional Contributor
      6 years ago

      Hi TanyaYatskovska ,
      I have already read the articles refering to Soapui Pro and continuous integration on ReadyAPI documentation, unfortunately I didn't found what I was really looking for. 
      In ReadyAPI I didn't found any command or plugin to test that everything is OK before running a Soapui  test so the only way to know if something is wrong is to run the test command and it's not effective when we do automation or DevOps development.
      I think that TestEngine can be the solution to Health-check problem.

      Thank you for your help.
      Best regards,
      Mohamed