Where is the User Guide?

Thanks for the heads up, we'll fix this!

In the meantime, I would suggest you start reading about how to use soapUI here: http://soapui.org/Getting-Started/web-s ... oject.html

/Henrik
eviware.com

I found this surfing around. Do you have such a thing for 3.6 version?

http://filedb.experts-exchange.com/inco ... soapui.pdf

robjahn wrote:
I found this surfing around. Do you have such a thing for 3.6 version? http://filedb.experts-exchange.com/inco ... soapui.pdf

No, sorry. We might consider this though, so we'd be glad to hear your story. Why do you prefer a PDF to online documentation (e.g. offline availability, printing, archiving, etc.)?

/Henrik
eviware.com

Yes a PDF is much easier to search. I find your web site a forums a bit slow from my location (Boston, Massachusetts) so was just asking if same content was in PDF format.
Any updates on getting the userguide up on the site? It now seems to redirect to features rather than the home page, but when I am in the product I can see the URL on the help icon all going to some /userguide location but none of them are still working.

For some feedback, your web content is helpful as an overview, but looking for next level of detail. Sample project are even better for you can see it in action.
In particular I am looking for more details on the internal classes used for test cases and message processing and more examples on asssertions and scripting. If we use the product we will have several hundred web services and I need to know how we can make the suite scalable, data driven, and ideally not have to hand edit hundreds of little properties/actions/steps of have some change or want to add rule changes. I am doing an evaulation of you product and find that I have to spend alot of time trolling through the forums just to get understanding of the techniques to build a scalable test suite. Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Thanks, this information is very valuable to us!

It's really a matter of prioritizing between this and improving our products. Now we know however that a lot of users wants this.

I would also like to encourage other users to tell us about their documentation needs in this forum topic.

/Henrik
eviware.com

A single, comprehensive, "all-in-one" Adobe PDF file (or Microsoft Word document) would be easier for your end users because:

a) searchability within one document netting cleaner and less confusing search results
b) portabiltiy
c) less overlap as currently exists with web links
d) ease of use
e) more efficient printing - out of one document as opposed to working one's way through 20 or 30 different separate, distinct, and unique links

I'll answer this topic on behalf of an anonymous soapUI Pro user that I've exchanged a few e-mails with:

"""
soapui.org is fine for those systems for which soapUI is loaded and internet connectivity is available.

My soapUI is loaded on a [...] classified (SECRET) development system.
This system is forbidden by [...] from having any internet connectivity.

It would be convenient if I could troubleshoot soapui issues in a stand-alone environment.
"""

There used to be a good user guide with links straight from the SoapUI app. That was the biggest strengths of the product, which made it super. The new application has one of the worst written user guide pages, that are too bright on the eyes and lack all information.

Where can I find an all consolidated HTML/PDF user guide for SoapUI-Pro-3.6.1?

ajitsd wrote:
Where can I find an all consolidated HTML/PDF user guide for SoapUI-Pro-3.6.1?

As stated above, unfortunately we don't provide a consolidated documentation at the moment. Thanks for your input though.

/Henrik
eviware.com

I would concur with some of the users above - A solid set of documentation would, for me, be a fantastic resource. My personal problems / issues would be addressed with the following (and I appreciate they are *my* issues, as a newcomer to automated testing and a newcomer to soapUI, Java, groovy):

A comprehensive reference to what objects exist in groovy in the soapUI context, and their methods and properties
Some good getting started docs for groovy
A more detailed / starting simpler tutorial on data driven testing

Basically, a nice big, fat book would be lovely ! <grin>

Instead, I'm going to end up posting lots of queries on this board, which is good I suppose for those facing similar confusion, but bad for all those people who will look and go "Oh no, another noob asking the same dumb questions we've seen a million times before", simply because my search-foo is not good enough to see appropriate earlier posts.

David