Download Soapui For Mac

Till now we have covered some basics about web services testing. Now it’s time to move one step ahead. It’s always good to perform some practical while learning new things and for this purpose, you need to have some tool on your system. Though there are many tools are available in market for web service testing, but we will discuss about one of the widely use tool called SOAP UI (This tool got new name few months back, that is “Ready! API”, but still this tool is more popular with SOAP UI name so I will be using this name in this post). Here I will share some points which you need to take care while downloading this tool on your system.

Additionally, you can download the SoapUI from its official website, and it automatically downloads the installer specific to your operating system. Moreover, installing SoapUI is a straightforward wizard-based process, and the wizard guides all the steps for a successful installation. Full size screenshot: soapUI for Mac Publisher Description soapUI for Mac is a free and open source desktop application for inspecting web services, invoking web services, developing Web Services, web services simulation and mocking, ect. SoapUI for Mac is mainly aimed at developers and testers providing or consuming WSDL or REST based Web Services (Java,.net, etc). SoapUI is a cross-platform tool. It supports Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. Step 1 − Go to www.soapui.org and click Download SoapUI. Step 2 − Click ‘Get It’ to download SoapUI Open Source. It will start downloading 112MB.exe file in the system. Wait till the download process is.

At the end of this post, you will be ready with the SOAP UI tool on your system. You need not to worry about how to use this tool. Leave those worries to me. I will create few more post which will guide you for usage of this tool. Now let’s start with the installation of SOAPUI tool for web service testing.

Step No. 1:

Visit google and search for “Download SOAPUI” keyword. The very first link will appear from www.soapui.org . Click on this link and you will land on required website. Though this is not the parent company for SOAP UI, but this is product website. You can safely download the tool from this website without any issue.

Step No. 2:

You will find three options on the landing page of SOAP UI. Download SOAP UI for Linux, Download SOAP UI for Windows, Download SOAP UI for Mac OS. Please click the download button suitable for your system. This post is for Windows system. Please take care of the value selection in drop down of the system. Here I have selected 64 Bit.

Step No. 3:

If you are using Chrome then you will find one shortcut the bottom of the browser. Right click on that .exe shortcut and select RUN on it. The system will start running the .exe file on your system.

Step No. 4:

You will get the following screen with heading “Install4j Wizard” along with progress bar. You will also get cancel button on the popup. Please do not click on it, not even by accident, as it will stop the installation process of SOAP UI tool.

Step No. 5:

Next step is to go through their agreement thoroughly. After reading the agreement, if you fill you can accept their terms and conditions then select the radio button with label “I accept the agreement” by default “I do not accept the agreement” will be selected.

Step No. 6:

Select Destination Directory screen will appear, by default they will select the C drive but if you want to store setup at the different location then you can easily select it by using browse button.

Step No. 7:
Select the component as per your need, if you need the tutorial you can select it otherwise selection of SOAPUI will be enough.

Step No. 8:
I had the select tutorial in the previous step, so SOAPUI will ask me for the location where I want to store tutorial.

Step No. 9:
This step will ask for the location where it can create the shortcut icon.

Step No. 10:
At this step you can create the desktop icon for SOAPUI, this will help you access the tool in an easy way. Uncheck the check box if you don’t want the shortcut. Click next.

Step No. 11:
A progress bar will appear with the cancel button. You need not to do anything now, System will take care of installation now onwards.

Step No. 12:
This step is the last step, a message of completing the installation will appear with two check box. One is for release notes and running the program.

Release notes will appear in the text file and will contain all the changes the fixes that latest build have.
Step No. 13:
Release notes will appear like this.

Step No. 14:
A shortcut icon will appear on a desktop like this. It will contain the latest version number.

I have created this guide just to guide you how to download SOAPUI tool free of cost on your system. I hope, by using this guide you have downloaded the tool without any issues. Please do let me know in comments if any step is misleading or incomplete. I will update it as early as possible. In the subsequent tutorial, you will find how to use this tool in your daily testing activity.

In the subsequent tutorial, you will find how to use this tool in your daily testing activity.

Introduction

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In environments where IBM has a strong presence (e.g. the financial sector), frequently MQ-based messaging solutions are part of the IT landscape. When building Service Oriented Solutions, unit testing tends to become more difficult, since the usual testing solutions do not offer support for MQ out of the box. In this blog I will describe how I solved the MQ challenges at a customer project, using the freely available SoapUI and HermesJMS.

Setting up

First things first: setting up the environment. Here, I am assuming you have already setup SoapUI (I used 5.2.0, available from http://www.soapui.org/downloads/soapui/open-source.html) and HermesJMS (I am preferring latest & greatest, version 1.15 is available through http://hermesjms.com/patches/).

Setting up HermesJMS

Next, you need to startup HermesJMS and create a new session. Switch to the providers tab page to define a new Classpath Group to make the set of WebSphere MQ libraries available to HermesJMS. In this new Classpath Group, you will need to add the location of several JARs from your WebSphere MQ distribution:

com.ibm.mq.commonservices.jar
com.ibm.mq.headers.jar
com.ibm.mq.jar
com.ibm.mq.jmqi.jar
com.ibm.mq.pcf.jar
com.ibm.mq.mqjms.jar
connector.jar
dhbcore.jar

Now, you can start defining your session and connection factory details (channel, hostname, port etc.). This is all you need to define in HermesJMS to get started. You will need to provide some destinations for defining your JMS endpoints.

Setting up SoapUI

To use HermesJMS from SoapUI, the only thing you have to do is to point SoapUI to the installation directory of HermesJMS (Preferences > Tools):

Scenario for test

In this case, we are unit testing a Service Bus 12c component; this Service Bus component is a combination of a pipeline, a proxy exposing this pipeline over local transport a business service. The functionality that is implemented inside the pipeline is not relevant for the current discussion. The business services connect (over MQ transport) to a set of queues, one for the request, another one for the reply, the correlationId relates the messages.

The test scenario is the following:

SoapUI (1) will send a request message to our so-called Gateway Proxy (2), using a custom transport user-header – PUT (Proxy Under Test); this Gateway proxy service (actually a proxy and a pipeline) effectively exposes the Proxy Under Test (3) for testing purposes. It uses the PUT transport user-header to dynamically route the incoming message to the proxy we want to test.
The proxy forwards the request to the pipeline (4) that implements the logic to be tested.
At a certain stage, the business service (5) will be invoked by the pipeline (4).
The business service publishes the request message on the Request Queue (6), using the MQ-transport.
Now, SoapUI (1) retrieves this request message from the queue.
An additional script step extracts the relevant information from the metadata and data of the request message that was read from the queue.
Here, custom logic could be implemented to process/determine the response message.
SoapUI (1) publishes the response message on the REPLY (7) queue, providing the required metadata
The business service (5), listening on the REPLY (7) queue picks up the response message through message correlation.
The response message is processed by the pipeline and travels the reverse path of the response message, eventually ending as the ultimate response to the SoapUI request that was sent in the first step. Here, we usally apply all kinds of checks in the form of “assertions” in our SoapUI test.

The interesting steps from a test perspective are mainly steps 5 to 8 … this is were the ‘magic’ happens, all other stuff is just basic SoapUI testing.

SoapUI Project Setup

The project consists of the WSDL of the service to be called, together with a number of custom project (defined at the project level for reusing in all test suites).

In this case, the business service is publishing a specific type of XML message onto the IBM WebSphere MQ, and expect a similar type of XML message in response. This message exchange is not governed by a service contract, however soapUI needs to be tricked in believing that we are exchanging SOAP-messages. So, we reuse the WSDL service contract exposed as the interface of the component we will be testing in this unit test to also expose a JMS endpoint (right-click on the WSDL and “Add JMS endpoint…” to define one):

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Test suite anatomy

When thinking about the setup, a first challenge is encountered: all interactions with the JMS queues, reading as well as writing is done using a “SOAP Request” test step. However, also the initiating step in soapUI is modelled using a “SOAP Request” test step and these SOAP Requests are blocking in soapUI. Where “SOAP Response” test steps offer the option of specifying the “start step” in order to listen for an incoming request, the “SOAP Request” will block until it receives a response.As an alternative in this situation, the test is modelled as a test suite, containing different test cases that are executed in parallel. The first test case (“MQ Request”) contains the soapUI SOAP request to initiate the flow (first step), the second test case (“MQ Response”) contains the soapUI “SOAP Request” test steps to pull the published MQ message from the MQ queue (fifth step) and publish the response (step 8) message to the MQ response queue. In between, message metadata is extracted from the message published on the MQ queue using a Groovy script.

On the test suite, a Groovy startup script takes care of generating unique values for message identification:

The initiating request

The soapUI request message that initiates the interaction is quite straight forward:

Retrieving the MQ message

Retrieving the message from an MQ queue is done easily using a soapUI “SOAP Request” step. In this case, we have specified the URL in such a format that it will only retrieve the published message (and not yet supply the response message):

From the format of the URL (jms://MQ::-::queue_PREFIX.${GlobalProperty}.${#Project#DSRequestQueue}), you can see the interaction with the messaging system is done as jms; the “MQ” identifier refers to the HermesJMS session. The second argument (“-“) is a placeholder to indicate that a response is not (yet) published, the final argument queue_PREFIX.${GlobalProperty}.${#Project#DSRequestQueue} defines the queue the message will be read from; in this case, we have a FIXED part (PREFIX), an environment specific value derived from GlobalProperty and a project specific property value.

Obtaining the correlation value

To assure that the inbound MQ response message can be correlated with the outbound MQ request message, the business service has been setup for correlation on the messageId. This implies that the messageId value from the outbound MQ request message needs to be provided as the JMS correlation Id on the inbound response message.In order to retrieve the messageId on the outbound MQ request message, a small snippet of Groovy code is executed to extract this messageId value into a testcase property:

Note the comment: the JMSMessageID object being returned is an ARRAY - not a scalar value !

Publishing the MQ response

The final step in this scenario consists of publishing the MQ response message to the reply queue (this message is picked up by the business service, based on the correct correlationId), again using a “SOAP Request”:

As you can see from the URL jms://MQ::queue_PREFIX.${ GlobalProperty}.${#Project#DSReplyQueue}::the same MQ session is used for publishing the reply. Also in this case, only one action (writing the message) is involved in the SoapUI request. Again, the queue for publishing this message is composed of several parts, specific to the setup of our environment.

Groovy alternative

As an alternative to interacting with MQ over JMS-bindings using HermesJMS, you may also consider interacting with MQ using Groovy Scripts. Roughly, this involves making the JARs mentioned in the setup for HermesJMS available (you can omit the mqjms, pcf and dhbcore JARs), but now soapUI should be aware of them: copy or link the JARs into your <SOAPUI_HOME>/bin/ext folder

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