Test Web Services Using soapUI

June 8th, 2010 by admin | Filed under SOA Tutorial.

This tutorial will show you how to test web services using soapUI. With soapUI, you can check your web services project is running (consumable) or not. SoapUI provides a robust set of capabilities to test web services not only during development, but also to test the validity of deployments.

First of all, all you need is :

1. soapUI, get soapUI here.

2. Web services you want to test, it can be WSDL or full application of web services. Relax, you can get web services example at http://www.soatutorial.net/sources/test_web_services_using_soapui.rar. If you want to know the step-by-step of how to create web services, you can visit Web Services Tutorial.

Please follow these steps to test your web services with soapUI :

1. Install soapUI to your computer,

2. Patch the sample web services that you have downloaded to your web server root directory (e.g. public_html), make sure you can access your web services via browser, for example, accessing URL http://localhost:8083/testwebservices/server.php, see figure 1.

Browse Web Services

Figure 1: Browse Web Services

3. Open soapUI, see figure 2.

soapUI Window

Figure 2: soapUI Window

4. Open new soapUI project,

Figure 3: soapUI Open New Project

Figure 3: soapUI Open New Project

5. Fill Project Name with “Test Web Services Using soapUI” and Initial WADL/WSDL with your WSDL link (e.g. http://localhost:8083/testwebservices/server.php?wsdl), see figure 4,

Figure 4: soapUI New Project

Figure 4: soapUI New Project

6. Make a new request service by double click at “addServices“,

Figure 5: soapUI Request

Figure 5: soapUI Request

7. Fill “id” value and “name” value to <id> and <text> element,

Figure 6: soapUI New Request

Figure 6: soapUI New Request

8. Click “Start” button,

Figure 7: soapUI Start

Figure 7: soapUI Start

9. And finally you can see whether the web services is “consumable” or not,

Figure 8: soapUI Request Success

Figure 8: soapUI Request Success

10. And of course, if the testing is successful, you can invoke the service via PHP application. In the http://www.soatutorial.net/sources/test_web_services_using_soapui.rar file it’s already there (client.php), you can access at http://localhost:8083/testwebservices/client.php and the result should be like this :

Figure 9: soapUI Request Using PHP Application

Figure 9: soapUI Request Using PHP Application

For conclusion, it’s a piece of cake to test your web services project, it’s very useful if you want to make sure that the web services you have build is consumable for web services requestor / client. I hope this simple tutorial is useful for you, thanks.

   

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31 Responses to “Test Web Services Using soapUI”

  1. amar says:
    July 14, 2010 at 22:03

    Simply good…

    Thanks!!

  2. admin says:
    July 15, 2010 at 09:19

    thank you Amar…

  3. Developer says:
    October 1, 2010 at 12:22

    Good Thanku

  4. Suresh Reddy says:
    October 1, 2010 at 13:46

    Very helpful

  5. Developer says:
    October 7, 2010 at 18:40

    Very Nice..

  6. Johny says:
    December 9, 2010 at 18:05

    I am new to SOAP, i don’t understand how is this WSDL file generated. Do i have to code all the xml file and put it on my webserver?

    Please help?

  7. admin says:
    December 10, 2010 at 10:12

    Johny : You don’t have to write xml file (WSDL) from scratch, you can use many classes or frameworks out there… for example, if you want to make WSDL from PHP Environment, you can make it with NUSOAP. All of the frameworks are basically “convert” your function / procedure to WSDL. Maybe I should post an article about it.. :)

  8. Mohan says:
    January 17, 2011 at 18:30

    @ Admin

    Thanks for ur info…. well, I’m Using ASP.Net… How can I convert ASP.NET files into WSDL file????

  9. rhea says:
    April 24, 2011 at 22:30

    thank you.. really helpful for absolute beginners

  10. Nitin says:
    May 9, 2011 at 13:03

    Its good

  11. jaya says:
    July 4, 2011 at 21:38

    hey;

    i have uploaded wsdl and on the Get i have

    ?

    According to u i need to enter subscriber id right. I gave that added test case and created assertion as i am testing http/soap response.

    After running the app. i am getting java socket error.

    I am not sure whether i am doing correct or not.

    Thanks in advance

  12. admin says:
    July 6, 2011 at 14:04

    @jaya :
    Just replace the “?” value into “3″. I hope this answer help your problem.

  13. tester says:
    July 15, 2011 at 17:48

    Hi there,

    Could someone please explain to me what is a web service?. why do I need SOAP UI to test a webservice?.

    cheers
    tester

  14. admin says:
    July 16, 2011 at 01:40

    @tester,
    It can be long if I explain what the web service is. You can visit this page to understand what is the web service : What is Web Services?

    Using SOAPUI to test your web services is just an option from million options on how you gonna test web services. I recommend using SOAPUI because it can reduce your development time. And the important one is, SOAPUI is FREE! :)

  15. Ram says:
    August 7, 2011 at 10:07

    Hi,
    Can you please enhance this example with the soapUI’s property transfer feature by writing XPath query. This will help me as well as the people coming to this site to enhance the SOAPUI usage. Thanks in advance!!

  16. Nishant Soni says:
    August 27, 2011 at 14:52

    I would like to know, How we can set / change values dynamically in our XML request during load test using soapUI 4.0.0.
    For example, I have WebService which create account in a system based on certain mandatory unique parameters like ‘SSN’ , GovermentID ( Passport, Driving Licence number) and Email ID.
    If I create a single request and run, it works fine but if I want to run this for multiple time to see stress test how we can change above mandatory parameters?

  17. admin says:
    September 1, 2011 at 14:02

    @Nishant, you can set the input value dynamically with in-line-scripting. For example, fill this into your input parameter :


    ${=System.currentTimeMillis()}

    The code above will generate unique time stamp on each request, you can modifying it into your need. I hope this can help.

  18. Robertico says:
    September 2, 2011 at 06:08

    How can I test asynchronous web services with soapUI?

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  20. tester says:
    October 22, 2011 at 06:16

    Hi,
    I’m a new to SOAPUI tool. What kind of error do you get while testing web services.

  21. Mohsin says:
    January 4, 2012 at 13:59

    Hi!

    I have created a web service to log in users by sending request through an iPhone app. The request content type is ‘multipart/form-data’ while the respnse is JSON. How can I test it ? I suppose SOAPUi only tests XML responses.

  22. Alka says:
    January 17, 2012 at 16:46

    Hi,

    Packt Publishing is looking for Technical reviewers on “Web Services Testing with soapUI” If interested in reviewing it, contact alkan@packtpub.com

  23. Arul Prakasam says:
    January 23, 2012 at 17:04

    Hi, What is SOAPUI tool. Is it for Perfomance Testing or Functionality testing. If this is Performance tool, Then how can i analysis the perfomance result.

    Thanks

  24. Av says:
    February 23, 2012 at 04:21

    I have downloaded soapUi on my machine , I tried to use the http://localhost:8083/testwebservices/server.php , But it is giving me error 404 Not found. How can I proceed/ Is it necessary to keep Net connected while working with SOAPUI?/

    thanks,

  25. Av says:
    February 23, 2012 at 04:22

    How Can I installl a web server on m machine? pls suggets

  26. Sudheer says:
    April 25, 2012 at 15:01

    Thanks for quick guide :)

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  28. Niranjan says:
    August 24, 2012 at 00:01

    Hi,
    I would to know the disadvantage of web services testing.
    Thanks

  29. Hani says:
    September 5, 2012 at 03:47

    Hi

    I cant see the result on client page. I did some changes on client page but I can not access client page from my browser. Please help.

    Thanks

  30. t@an*i says:
    December 6, 2012 at 18:32

    Please help me using api and user name and password How to create the webservice using soap?

    Above type of create the webservice .

  31. t@an*i says:
    December 6, 2012 at 18:34

    Please help me using api and user name and password How to create the webservice using soap? In PHP.Please Give me the link or file .

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