Why did the company choose SoapUI Pro?
SoapUI Pro is particularly stronger at enabling re-quests to read data from a data source file and then validating the response. QTP requires three weeks of development time using Visual Basic script code to achieve this, but SoapUI Pro reads data sources right out of the box. It took me only one hour to train two people.
The SoapUI Pro version also costs less than the QTP Web Services add-on. That made the final choice an easy one.
Have you customized SoapUI Pro in any way?
While previously working for another company, I used the Groovy tool within the Open Source version of SoapUI to create scripts for XML test cases and to load testing components. This capability is critical since responses sometimes generate thousands of XML records that need to be checked. Doing so manually is an exhaustive process.
But over the long-term, custom programming to tweak the Open Source version of SoapUI is not supportable, particularly as testing team assign-ments change. Prime Therapeutic thus decided to purchase SoapUI Pro, which comes standard with
script creation and testing capabilities. This fully automated the creation of Web Services tests and the process to check the results. Testers thus did not need to customize SoapUI Pro in any way.
What role does SoapUI Pro play in daily operations?
The company relies heavily on internal Web Services applications to execute daily business processes.
Each time a Web Service is developed or updated, testers need to check many use-cases to make sure the application will perform correctly for all end users across the company. Conducting the tests and identifying issues quickly is paramount since the com-pany needs to roll out new Web Services and updates quickly to enhance business-process efficiencies.
What specific functions does SoapUI Pro fulfill?
With SoapUI Pro, it’s easy to create data-driven tests. Testers can load Excel files with any data a test case requires and then run tests in a loop to read all the data. They quickly verify the expected actual response values and then run each test case individually.
SoapUI Pro also allows testers to load each row from an Excel file that includes all the parameters they want to pass along to a request. When the response comes back from the server using the same row of data, they verify the XML node-value against the expected response stored in Excel. They can also run assertion tests to validate specific test cases using the given parameters.
How does Prime measure the ROI delivered by SoapUI Pro?
After going through one-hour training sessions on SoapUI Pro, testers have utilized the solution easily without any technical support. SoapUI Pro offers that rare combination of simple-to-use while delivering powerful results. Testers can now quickly build and run tests on Web Services as well as pinpoint the source of any performance problems. This allows developers to make adjustments to Web Services much more efficiently than they could do so previously.
What specific functions does SoapUI Pro fulfill?
With SoapUI Pro, it’s easy to create data-driven tests. Testers can load Excel files with any data a test case requires and then run tests in a loop to read all the data. They quickly verify the expected actual response values and then run each test case individually. SoapUI Pro also allows testers to load each row from an Excel file that includes all the parameters they want to pass along to a request. When the response comes back from the server using the same row of data, they verify the XML node-value against the expected response stored in Excel. They can also run assertion tests to validate specific test cases using the given parameters.
How does Prime measure the ROI delivered by SoapUI Pro?
After going through one-hour training sessions on SoapUI Pro, testers have utilized the solution easily without any technical support. SoapUI Pro offers that rare combination of simple-to-use while delivering powerful results. Testers can now quickly build and run tests on Web Services as well as pinpoint the source of any performance problems. This allows developers to make adjustments to Web Services much more efficiently than they could do so previously. As an example of how well SoapUI Pro works, using a manual process to run 100 test cases previously required close to six hours of resource time. With SoapUI, testers can conduct the same number of tests in just 20 seconds. That reduces resource costs considerably.
But most importantly, reduced testing times allow the company to roll out Web Services updates that improve business process efficiencies to the company sooner. That makes it easier for employees to take care of customers.