SOAP UI

Author
Ashish Ranjeet Singh

Basic Introduction

Soap UIis an open-source web service testing

application for service-oriented architectures (SOA)
and representational state transfers (REST). HTTP
protocol is used. Its functionality covers web service
inspection, invoking, development, simulation and
mocking, functional testing, load and compliance
testing. It is primarily use to test middle office
applications in any architectures. It is built entirely on
Java platform. It uses Swings for UI. It supports
Eclipse, Netbeans Java development tools .It is
generally used to hit web services . It was developed
by eviware and now it has ben taken over by Smart
Bear.

Need of SOAP UI
So the first question would be what was the need of
SAOP UI ?
In a general there are three main components in
any system i.e.
Front Office
Middle Office
Backend ( generally Database)
Front office is like what we have websites like
Metropcs.com , My TMO. So in order to test them we
just do sanity checks on site by logging in and
checking all the flows. So we have this way of
testing the front office.

Need of SOAP UI
Now in web based systems the interaction
between the front office and backend is by using
web services.
Now there is a need to test these web services as
well.
So this where SOAP UI comes into the picture. So,
SOAP UI gives us a way to test the web services.
And we use the URLs to invoke these services.
Now for each operation of a web service there will
be a request which will be automatically created
once you import the project.

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Now the next question is , these requests are unfilled . So you

need to pass the parameters in them. Now how to know what to
fill in parameters in the request ?

So the answers is : Whenever a web service is developed , there

will always be a document created , which will contain all the
details about all the fields which will be present in the request
and what all are the permissible parameters which can be
passed. Some of the parameters would be optional and some
will be mandatory to pass.

It basically has all info about the web service. It is generally

called as STUS and is primarily possessed by developing team.
Also note that the end points URLs which we use to fire the
request will be different for different environments.

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In our project we are using the SOAP UI to test the web services which
serves MY TMO and with the help of SOAP UI we are troubleshooting
various issues.

Now here we are hitting web services in two ways.

Hitting Directly
Through boomi layer (sort of tunneling)
There are some requests like getprofile for which we hit the request
on https://
esoa-proxyweb.internal.t-mobile.com/genericesp/soap URL on
PROD environment. This is a ESOA request. So here we are hitting
the web service directly.
However we also hit some of the web services through boomi layer.
Here also in reality we are actually hitting the web service on ESOA
only but then by tunneling through boomi layer. For boomi request
there is no need to add

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SOAPAction in header. However when we are

directly hitting the ESOA we need to give the
SOAP ACTION.
In case of boomi request SOAPACTION is defined
at boomi layer.

You can identify boomi request if

xmlns:wss="http://www.boomi.com/connector/w
ss is present in the SOAP UI request.
As of now we are hitting all the boomi requests
on http://172.28.49.121/ws/soap URL.

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