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How to set up ReadyAPI for external Groovy development?
I would really love to develop my Groovy scripts outside of ReadyAPI in a full-fledged IDE. No offense, I'm just used to have good refactoring capabilities and at least "go to definition" functionali...
- It is possible to achieve it in IDE supported by groovy.
https://rupz.me/soapui-cookbook-bonus-recipes/1-how-to-develop-add-and-use-a-custom-groovy-library-in-soapui/
Our expert rupert_anderson wrote the above blog with detailed steps long time ago and you can use the same approach to write library for your custom scripts.
Regarding your question on variables, you can always pass them to your library methods or classes so that those will be available.
