Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 3

Once you have downloaded and installed the cobertura plug-in, you need to configure your Job to use the reports generated. Click configure on PetStore_Nightly Job, this will display the Job configuration. Choose Publish Cobertura Coverage Report, and provide the file name pattern that can be used to locate the cobertura xml report files.

 

6. Finally, lets force a build and see the results.

PetStore Dashboard:

 

Cobertura Coverage Report in Hudson:

 

Since we also generated the HTML reports for cobertura within the Ant task, we can take a look at these as well:

P.S: I should mention that when deploying instrumented code using cobertura to an application server, cobertura doesn't update the data file unless the application server is shutdown. So, I used the same workaround as mentioned in the cobertura web site, instead of stopping and starting the server each and every time. I placed the following code in one of the Session Beans, published this as a web service, added a test case for this method and this was the last test case called within SoapUI.

try {
    String className = "net.sourceforge.cobertura.coveragedata.ProjectData";
    String methodName = "saveGlobalProjectData";
    Class saveClass = Class.forName(className);
    java.lang.reflect.Method saveMethod = saveClass.getDeclaredMethod(methodName, new Class[0]);
    saveMethod.invoke(null,new Object[0]);
} catch (Throwable t) {
}

In this part, you learned about the Ant tasks for running tests written using SoapUI, generating JUnit reports, integrating with CI, and getting code coverage using Cobertura. I've used some popular open source tools like Ant, Hudson, Cobertura and showed you how easy it is to set up a CI environment using these tools and run functional tests for your web services written using SoapUI.

You can go ahead start building web services with great confidence! Enjoy.