Learning Mocking in SoapUI
This chapter discusses using mocking in SoapUI. The SOAP service mocking feature offers you to simulate a SOAP service by creating a mock service. After this, run it either directly from SoapUI, or use the mockservicerunner.bat command-line application. In general, mocking is creating a virtual service that works like a real service. A mock service imitates a real REST or SOAP API – it contains definitions for operations that clients call, receives requests, and returns simulated responses.
When is Mocking is Required?
You can use SOAP mock services to perform various tasks:
- Firstly, create a web service prototype. Certainly, you can generate a complete mock service using just a single request. However, in this case, you can implement and test clients much faster, since there is no need to create a complex working solution.
- Secondly, develop and test client applications. Certainly, you can easily simulate requests you want to test and prepare a number of various responses for them. T
- Lastly, test every aspect of your future service. Certainly, with SoapUI, you can easily perform functional and load testing against a mock service before even creating an actual live service.
Advantages of Mocking
- Firstly, you can create client code and tests before creating an actual service.
- Secondly, your teams can create and test features during application development simultaneously.
- Thirdly, you can create tests for unavailable resources.
- Subsequently, you can create demos.
- Further, you can deploy your SoapUI mock as a WAR file on any computer where a Java virtual machine is installed to provide your service to customers or partners.
- Moreover, you can isolate some subsystems of your service.
- Lastly, you can test a live environment before implementing an actual service.
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