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aldana
Occasional Contributor
15 years ago

Connection refused outcome doesn't make the test fail

Hi there, I get a connection refused error from soapui (because server isn't running), which is correct. Unfortunately the test-step still shows me a successful assertion. Of course I want to show ...
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schnizlein
Contributor
15 years ago
aldana wrote:

eviware support wrote:

Try adding a "SOAP Response" assertion to your teststep, this should fail and thus fail the test.


I see. But I think there should be a default/implicit assertion which checks this (otherwise I need to add such an assertion on each request step, which adds effort)... I think there are very rare test-cases which check that the endpoint is not listening.


This is very much by design, one many people agree with.