perfsonar development work

[Michael Michalis <>]

Hi Jochen,

Thanks for all your work.

Michalis Michael

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From: Jochen Reinwand 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:26 PM
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Subject: [pS-dev] Functional Testing using soapUI

Hello everybody!

Finally I sort of finished my soapUI evaluation!
To sum up I have to say I really like the tool!

I did my tests with the BWCTL MP, because I started with it and we had 
problems setting up the CLI MP (we have to test) quickly. As result I now 
have a package (see attachment) containing some sort of "working directory".

I have included a README.txt file explaining (hopefully) most of the things 
about how to use the package. I have attached the README.txt also separately

to make it easier accessable.

I have to admit that getting into soapUI is not that easy. Of course,
starting 
prepared tests is not really difficult. Setting up tests is more
complicated. 
But you can set up tests very fast once you got into using soapUI. It's very

easy to use, if you know how ;-)

There is still one drawback: The Perl SOAP implementation is creating a SOAP

envelope, that soapUI cannot validate. I don't know who's right on this 
point, but sooner or later I have to find a workaround in Perl or soapUI... 
See the README.txt for further information.

I came across some more advanced features soapUI provides, but haven't taken
a 
closer look. Since they obviously should be useful for us, I listed them 
here:

- Data-Driven Testing/Template-Driven Testing: Show how to test using data 
from external sources.

- Surveillance Testing: Surveillance testing is here used to describe a
setup 
where a number of both functional and load tests are run using some kind of 
scheduling tool to continuously validate the availability to some web 
service.

- Scripting seems to be possible as well!

That's hopefully all I have to say. Just look at the README.txt and test 
soapUI ;-)

Comments and questions are, of course, always welcome!

greetings,
Jochen

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