Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 3

1. SoapUI and Ant
SoapUI provides command line tools to run various tests. To run the functional tests, we need to use the com.eviware.soapui.tools.SoapUITestCaseRunner class, which takes the path to the SoapUI project file containing the tests and a number of options:

Since the runner runs from the command line, we will use the exec task in Ant. SoapUI comes with scripts based on the operating system you installed it on, testrunner.bat or testrunner.sh. (If you are using a Windows machine and your build machine is using a different operating system, for example UNIX, you will need to make changes to this script.)

Let’s begin by writing out what we need to add to the Ant build file to run these functional tests on a Windows machine. We need to define a target that will run the tests; for clarity, we will also specify properties that will clarify the meanings of the file locations specified:

a. Specify the properties for SoapUI location and the project file

<property name="soapui-location" location="C:\\Program Files\\eviware\\soapUI-1.7.6\\bin"/>
<property name="soapui-project-xml-location" location="Weather-soapui-project.xml"/>

b. Define a target to run the functional tests.

<target name="run-soapui-tests" description="runs all functional SoapUI  tests">
      	<exec dir="${soapui-location}" executable="cmd.exe" failonerror=”true”>
    		<arg line="/c testrunner.bat -j -f${reports} -r -a ${soapui-project-xml-location}"/>
    	</exec>
</target>

At this point, we will open a command window and run the soapui-tests. The output is: