Integrate SOAPUI with Selenium

Before getting into the depth of our topic ‘Integrate SOAPUI with Selenium’, lets first get familiar with each of its term.

SOAP is an XML -based protocol, it allows applications to exchange information over HTTP and uses WSDL (Web Services Description Language) for communication.

SOAPUI is an open source web service testing tool widely used for API testing. It is compatible with multiple platforms. The most prominent feature of this tool is that it supports all types of protocols and technologies. SOAPUI-pro is advanced of it having additional functionalities which are essential for organizations dealing with critical web services.

Selenium is also the most widely used open source tool for automating testing over browsers. It automates browsers across multiple platforms.
Selenium WebDriver supports many browsers including headless HTMLUnit Browser, PhantomJs. In addition to it, it supports multiple programming languages too.Selenium Webdriver communicates directly with the browser instance and there is no need for a server.

SOAPUI can be integrated with Selenium for enhancing functionalities. The simplest and easiest way to integrate Selenium with SOAPUI is to use ‘Groovy’. SOAPUI completely supports Groovy.
Groovy is an object-oriented scripting language which is based on Java Platform. Groovy has the following features:

• Support for both static and dynamic typing
• Support for operator overloading
• Native syntax for lists and associated arrays
• Can use existing Java libraries
• It extends the java.lang.Object

•  Download Groovy SDK
• Install Java SDK
• Install Selenium
• Install SOAPUI Pro

@when(“<I use the weather service to get the weather information”)
public void i_use_the_weather_service_to_get_the_information() 
{
Set<Entry<String, string>> set = zipAndCities.entrySet();
while (iterator,hasNext)) 
{
Entry<String, String> entry = iterator.next();
String zipCode = entry.getkey();
String city = entry.getValue();
String[] prop = {“usePropertyFileFlag=true”,”zipCode=” +zipCode, “city=” +city};

try
{
SoapUITestCaseRunner soapUITestCaseRunner = new SoapUITestCaseRunner();
soapUITestCaseRunner.setProjectFile(“src/test/resources/WeatherSoapTest-soapui-project.xml”);
soapUITestCaseRunner.setProjectProperties(prop);
soapUITestCaseRunner.setTestSuite(“TestSuite1″);
soapUITestCaseRunner.setTestCase(“TestCase1″);
soapUITestCaseRunner.run();

} 
catch (Exception e) 
{
System.err.println(“checking” + zipCode + ” failed!”);
failureCount++;
zipCodes.append(zipCode + ” [” + city +”] “);
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally
{
totalCount++;
}
}
}
}