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Hazey's avatar
Hazey
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Parameterizing REST request from TestComplete

As part of my TestComplete test suite, I want to be able to make REST requests to avoid unecessary UI interaction. I have managed to get a REST request working using the SOAPUI intergration. However ...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Did I get you right that you are using SoapUI integration in your TestComplete project, execute some SoapUI test from within your TestComplete test and want to pass parameters from TestComplete test to SoapUI one?

    If the above is correct, than that close integration is not supported by TestComplete (yet?). I think that the only posible approach in this case is to store parameters in some intermediate file in TestComplete test and read the content of this file and assign the proper values to the relevant variables in SoapUI. To implement this in SoapUI, you may either create a startup script or add an additional step to the test.

     

    P.S. Alternative approach is to send REST request directly from TestComplete test (using, for example, http://community.smartbear.com/t5/Functional-Web-Testing/TestComplete-support-for-automating-REST-API/td-p/110066 thread as a sample).

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3

Hi,

 

Did I get you right that you are using SoapUI integration in your TestComplete project, execute some SoapUI test from within your TestComplete test and want to pass parameters from TestComplete test to SoapUI one?

If the above is correct, than that close integration is not supported by TestComplete (yet?). I think that the only posible approach in this case is to store parameters in some intermediate file in TestComplete test and read the content of this file and assign the proper values to the relevant variables in SoapUI. To implement this in SoapUI, you may either create a startup script or add an additional step to the test.

 

P.S. Alternative approach is to send REST request directly from TestComplete test (using, for example, http://community.smartbear.com/t5/Functional-Web-Testing/TestComplete-support-for-automating-REST-API/td-p/110066 thread as a sample).

Hazey's avatar
Hazey
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Thanks for the respone. You did understand correctly what I wanted to pass parameters to SOAPUI tests from within TestComplete, but looks like something that isn't possible, or at least not straight forward to do.

 

Looking at the link you provided it seems an alternative is to use script to directly make rest requests from within TestComplete. I have tried this using python script, and whilst it seems to work, the import part of the script to import some python libraries is very slow. It takes a few minutes just to import the liburl.request library. I'm not sure if this is an issue with TestComplete or something I don't have setup right.

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    > I'm not sure if this is an issue with TestComplete or something I don't have setup right.

    I'm not using Python, so cannot comment on this. Just two small notes:

    a) TestComplete 'precompiles' test code on test start, so if your test suite is large (a lot of projects with/or a lot of script units (of large size)) this might result in the noticable start delay;

    b) In any case you may raise a Support request via http://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=TestComplete form and ask for their comments.

    • Hazey's avatar
      Hazey
      Occasional Contributor
      9 years ago

      OK, thanks again for the response. I'll look into if its only on the initial start or if its for every test script, and raise an issue if I need to.