Maven & soapUI: Testing a Service

In a previous post, I demonstrated the creation of the business logic for an adding web service, that when given a list of numbers, returns their sum. The goal for me was to create a simple service so I can try out automated testing of the service using soapUI from Maven.

In this post, I'll show how I can run the test suite for the service. In the next post, hopefully I'll demonstrate how we can expose the service in Tomcat using Mule.

The created a test suite, when run, produces the following results as demonstrated by the service's log:

INFO  [http-8080-1][2010-07-07 11:23:34,981] - Sum of: [2, 2] = 4
INFO  [http-8080-1][2010-07-07 11:23:35,109] - Sum of: [1, 2, 3] = 6
INFO  [http-8080-1][2010-07-07 11:23:35,133] - Sum of: [1, 2, 3, 4] = 10
INFO  [http-8080-1][2010-07-07 11:23:35,148] - Sum of: [0, 1] = 1
INFO  [http-8080-1][2010-07-07 11:23:35,167] - Sum of: [0, 0] = 0
INFO  [http-8080-1][2010-07-07 11:23:35,221] - Sum of: [] = 0

In the adder service project, I exported the project containing a test suite to a new integration testing module, adder-it, as:

src/test/resources/adder-soapui-project.xml

The POM for the adder-it module contains the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <parent>
    <groupId>org.prystasj.adder</groupId>
    <artifactId>adder</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </parent>
  <artifactId>adder-it</artifactId>
  <name>adder Integration Testing</name>
  <description>Integration testing with soapUI.</description>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>eviware</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-soapui-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.5.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <projectFile>src/test/resources/adder-soapui-project.xml</projectFile>
          <host>localhost</host>
          <port>8080</port>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>soap-integration-test</id>
            <phase>integration-test</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>test</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

To run the tests, with the service up and running locally on port 8080, invoke Maven with:

$ mvn integration-test

Below is some of the build output statements from a test run:

[INFO] [soapui:test {execution: soap-integration-test}]
soapUI 3.5.1 Maven2 TestCase Runner
19:31:31,085 INFO  [WsdlProject] Loaded project from [file:/home/prystasj/workspace/prystasj/mule/adder/adder-it/src/test/resources/adder-soapui-project.xml]
19:31:31,713 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Running soapUI tests in project [adder]
...
19:31:31,734 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Running soapUI testcase [Add_2_to_2]
19:31:31,750 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] running step [Add_2_to_2]
19:31:33,305 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Assertion [SOAP Response] has status VALID
19:31:33,306 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Assertion [Contains] has status VALID
19:31:33,306 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Finished running soapUI testcase [Add_2_to_2], time taken: 1543ms, status: FINISHED
...
19:31:33,307 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Running soapUI testcase [Add_1_to_2_to_3]
...
19:31:33,385 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Project [adder] finished with status [FINISHED] in 1664ms

To access the soapUI Maven plugin, add the following plugin repository to your settings.xml:

<pluginRepository>
  <id>eviwarePluginRepository</id>
  <url>http://www.eviware.com/repository/maven2/</url>
</pluginRepository>