05ten,
Couple of thoughts / questions / feedback to consider for the benefit of consumers of this flow-soapui-plugin:
Users can have many suites and each can contain many test cases in each of their project -
- Adding the repeat steps manually to those many test cases / projects would be hard and as you rightly pointed that not most of QA folks not savvy programmers.
A way to do add the step in automated fashion would be easy for larget number of community members to be able to embrace this plugin.
Having some kind of utility would helps a lot. I think, any one can create this utility and share it i.e., need to not require any changes from plugin side.
- When there are huge number of projects, execution time would get increased and this may cause some users to disown this plugin.
So, a way to automatically enable / disable this test step or its business logic conditionally on the fly would be benefitted i.e., passing system arguments to tesrunner / maven etc.,
May be changes required in the plugin to make it possible, a wild guess.
Considering a release in Github -
At the moment, users have to setup the maven and build this for themselves in order to adopt it.
If a release(.jar file) is made available on github, then it may attract big number of consumers to try or/and use it as they see/found it.
Stuck to specific version -
Aware of the fact that SoapUI is stricter now for the user developed plugins and needs to be singed by SmartBear.
Though the other library mentioned by you allows users to use for 5.2.1 version.
However, heard that jailbreak is not working from 5.3.0 onwards though not tried for myself. Have you tried for 5.3.0?
Or plan to get this plugin signed by SmartBear and do a release in github?
Also, I believe, not only open source edition, Ready API can also use it and get benefitted out of this plugin provided signed by SmartBear.
There are list of plugins available here and do wish your one to be made available there to reach wider audiences?
