Before diving into the next installment of my series on new features in soapUI 3.0, let's back up a bit and have a look at the basics of Data-Driven testing in soapUI Pro; the DataSource and DataSource Loop teststeps and how they are meant to be used (see this post as a prequel to DataDriven LoadTesting, which takes things to another level).

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Digging further into the list of improvements in soapUI Pro 3.0 reveals support for Event Handlers and improved handling of JDBC Connections. Let's have a look at both of these and how they can be used both on their own and together to provide some very handy functionality.

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The new soapUI 3.0 beta has been out on our servers and at sourceforge for a couple of weeks now, the list of new features is as always extensive, and as always we owe most of it to our customers and users; all fantastic feedback, input, support and patience (a lot of that..) has propelled soapUI further towards SOA-testing Nirvana.

The New and Noteworthy document gives an overview of all new features in both soapUI and soapUI Pro, and instead of repeating its content, I'll write a number of entries over the coming weeks to show off some of the more prominent improvements. So lets dive right in and have a look at the extremely cool WADL generation and Schema Inference functionality!

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A great collection of tips for making your life with soapUI (even) easier, check out both Part 1 and Part 2 in this great series.

Thank You Sachin!

/Ole

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Ever wanted to save the time taken for a TestStep to a soapUI Pro DataSink? Who hasen't? Here goes:

1) Create a property in your DataSink for holding the time taken, for example "ResponseTime"

2) Create a groovy script step directly after the request/TestStep you want to log and enter the following

// get result of previous teststep
def result = testRunner.results[testRunner.results.size()-1]
 
// get target datasink, here named DataSink
def dataSink = testRunner.testCase.testSteps['DataSink']
 
// get the time taken as a string
def tt = String.valueOf( result.timeTaken )
 
// write it to the datasink
dataSink.setPropertyValue( 'ResponseTime',tt )

That's it!

Dedicated to Huw, thank you!

/Ole

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Want to optimize your SQL-connection handling during the execution of your tests containing groovy scripts that access a database? I thought you would! Checkout this brilliant post from Sachin on his blog; http://onebyteatatime.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/reusable-sql-connection-in-soapui/

Thank you Sachin!

/Ole

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Here's a nice tip from alessandro on our forums; he shows how you can easily change the log-files soapUI writes to at runtime.

Check it out!

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Sachin has written a cool post on how to use XQuery in your Property Transfers to "mix in" existing data or properties into the transferred content, very cool! Check it out at http://onebyteatatime.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/how-to-insert-a-node-in-soapui-property-transfer/

Thanks Sachin!

/Ole

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A nice blog-post on how property-expansion can be used with LoadTests to generate unique values for each request, check it out; http://techwheel.blogspot.com/2009/02/soapui-property-expansion.html.

Thank you Aravind!

/Ole

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Just a quick announcement; soapUI 2.5.1 is out with updated plugins for IDEA, Netbeans and Eclipse and a large number of bug-fixes and minor improvements. As always huge thanks to our fantastic customers and community for all your feedback and encouragement!

Check it out at http://www.soapui.org!

and of course soapUI Pro 2.5.1 is available for download from http://www.eviware.com/download

/Ole

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