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kenm
Contributor
8 years ago

SoapUI - Updating multiple testcases quickly

Good morning fellow SoapUIers,   One criticism I've seen leveled at SoapUI, and have personally experienced, are the challenges around widespread test updates. For example if a single API call, w...
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groovyguy
Community Hero
8 years ago

If I might ask, what is causing the changes to the response payload structure?

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kenm
Contributor
8 years ago

Planned sprint work...

 

The the response payload itself is being changed based upon business needs however we often have many many tests that are consuming that API call and asserting on fields that now may be renamed/removed etc.

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    Lucian
    Community Hero
    8 years ago

    Another thing that may help is to use dynamic assertions instead of fixed assertions. This is possible in XPath as well in JSONPath :smileyhappy:. So the assertions won't fail each time when something is changed, well at least they won't fail when something is added or removed from the current response.

     

    Cheers!

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      Olga_T
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      8 years ago

      Hi all,

      Thank you so much for your assistance, Lucian and groovyguy!

      kenm, is the issue solved? Or, are there any additional details on the matter?

      We are looking forward to hearing from you,

       

       

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        kenm
        Contributor
        8 years ago

        I'm afraid it's not resovled.

         

        My assertions themselves are quite granular. On specific fields existence and values... however if the root path of that response structure changes then naturally they start to fail. If this payload response (and assertions) are present in a considerable number of testcases then it'd be helpful to have some sort of global search/global search and replace capabilies.