How to loop over all the soap test steps.

Hi Jan,

We now call this "Data-Driven Testing" and there is alot of built in support for it in soapUI Pro (check out http://www.eviware.com/blogs/oleblog/?p=619), if you'd rather do a bunch of scripting in soapUI check out http://www.soapui.org/userguide/scenari ... riven.html

regards!

/Ole
eviware.com

Hi Ole,

That's not exactly what I wanted. The examples I mostly see have
one soap request test step and the data varies. I have multiple
soap requests, like a workflow and a value i want to put in all off them
before I execute them.

I want the set 1 single value, a session id, in all the soap requests in
my test case so that they belong to the same session. The session id I
get from the logon response:

holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("Logon#Response");
sessionId = holder.getNodeValue("//ns0:SESSION");

Currently I have to address every test step by name which needs the session
id to be set:

holder2 = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("GetObservations#Request");
holder2.setNodeValue("//urn:SESSION",sessionId);
holder2.updateProperty();

holder2 = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("CreateObservation#Request");
holder2.setNodeValue("//urn:SESSION",sessionId);
holder2.updateProperty();

holder2 = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("GetObservationDetail#Request");
holder2.setNodeValue("//urn:SESSION",sessionId);
holder2.updateProperty();

what i would like is to get rid of the hardcoded references to the test
steps and just do an XPATH to get a list of all the test step, something
like this which would turn all the repetitive copy-paste into a single
loop {pseudo code}:

testStepNames = groovyUtils.getListOfTestStepnames()
for every TestStepName in testStepNames  do {
  def holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder(TestStepName);
  holder.setNodeValue("//urn:SESSION",sessionId);
  holder.updateProperty();
}

Which makes my groovy script future proff for all the other soap request
test steps i add, relieving me from copy pasting code to support setting
the session in the added test step.

Do you know how to do that?

Thanks,

Jan

Hello,

The easiest way of doing this is to put the session ID in a context variable, and then use a property expansion in your requests. This way you just have to set the property in one place. For instance, wherever you want the session ID to appear use the property expansion like so:

<urn:SESSION>${sessionId}</urn:SESSION>

This expansion will look in the current context for the variable named sessionId, so first you need to set this variable:

holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("Logon#Response");
context.sessionId = holder.getNodeValue("//ns0:SESSION"); 

Regards,
Dain
eviware.com