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SOAtest, Virtualize, CTP 2025.2 Product Release Announcement
The 2025.2 release of Parasoft SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP introduces powerful new AI capabilities to make service virtualization and advanced test creation faster and more approachable for QA teams. Whether you’re testing traditional systems or the next generation of AI-driven applications, this release helps you reduce…
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Windows blue screen crash when using Parasoft products after a recent Windows 11 update
Several users have reported a Windows crash with error UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP when using Parasoft tools after applying a recent Windows 11 update. It appears that different sets of actions can trigger the issue, but some known cases include closing a responder editor in Parasoft Virtualize or closing the test…
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Import Postman Collections to SOAtest
Hi Everyone! I am pleased to inform you that we have created a tool that will allow users to convert Postman Collections for use in SOAtest. This tool is to be used to move much of the information contained in the Postman tool to be used in SOAtest. Using this, you will be able to bring over connection information (URL),…
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Handling Authentication Tokens
Handling Authentication Tokens In this forum post I will go over the steps and tools needed to quickly and easily handle Authentication Tokens. We will look at what tools to use when handling authentication tokens returned as a header value and authentication tokens returned in the payload of a response. So first, a look…
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Enabling TLSv1.2 in SOAtest/Virtualize
Parasoft: Enabling TLSv1.2 in SOAtest/Virtualize: Description: SOA/Virt 9.10 and up now comes prepackaged with Java1.8 which has TLSv1.2 enabled by default. The Java version that comes with all the previous SOA/Virt versions does not. If you are using SOA/Virt 9.9.5 and below, there are two methods to enable TLSv1.2.…
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[Updated] Regarding log4j CVE-2021-44228 with SOAtest
NIST recently released several Apache's log4j Zero-Day vulnerability cases, a very popular Java library to log messages in Java Applications. * CVE-2021-44228 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228) * Parasoft products released this year (2021) include log4j 2.14.0 library. Parasoft confirms that these releases…
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How to Force SOATest to Start Edge in InPrivate Mode
I have a large number of tests that run in Microsoft Edge (the browser we must use here) and I need to run it in InPrivate mode because of mandated multi-factor authentication. I do have InPrivate mode working in the Selenic tests but am not sure how to implement this in SOATest. Searches for this in the Forum did not…
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Web Scenario Testing - How to set browser executable path on Linux/Tomcat .war install
I have some web scenario tests created and deployed to a Linux instance of SOAtest (on Tomcat). Tests fail because the browser executable path is not set. I am familiar with setting this value on the Parasoft client, however not so much on a server installation. Can you provide details or a link to the doc? Thanks, JT
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Automating UI Flow Test
Hello, Is there a way to automate UI flow test (web scenario) test? I mean for a user to use the Parasoft Recorder to record web actions, and then have the automatically executed and reporting made available via CTP/DTP? In other words, is there a way to automatically deploy test asset associated with the recording to CTP…
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Tool "Extension Tool" did not accept output from method "XYZ"
I have a test suite that includes 2 set-up tests, each using an Extension Tool with simple groovy scripts to obtain a JWT: Set-Up 1: Set JWT Bearer Acquirer Set-Up 2: Fetch Bearer Token This test suite is stored under Tests Assets in my workspace, and then referenced in my project in any test suite for the tests which…
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Problem Running Command Line
My department is slowly migrating from SOATest 2021 to SOATest 2024 but still have a significant number of tests running 2024. Recently one of the projects running on our build, deployment, and test server started throwing this error after running fine for a long time: [echo]…
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The Saxon DOM implementation cannot be updated
I see this error doing below steps : 1. Run query, extract the content of XML , save it as XML, allow altercations from data source to update few values in this extracted XML and use it in subsequent tests . Error : Error Message: DataSource: TC1 (row 1): The Saxon DOM implementation cannot be updated Additional Details:…
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How to Assert Service Response Values against a Database
How to Assert Service Response Values against a Database Description: The following workflow will demonstrate a method to validate the data from a Service Response against the data stored in a Database. I will be using the database and Service Response from our Parabank 2.0 Application as an example. If you wish to learn…
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How to use csv, excel, xml data source in subsequent SOA test while allow altercation in XML
* I have to run query against a data base and fetch a top 1 XML and save it locally * Few fields inside that XML [saved in local ] will need to be changed [ basically parameterized] so that a new xml with new values will be generated for further validation * Now i took a random top1 XML based on query criteria, when i used…
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Connect DB Tool to Azure Database
I have to use a bearer token with Micorosoft Entra Integrated to connect to database. Other than the mssql driver(com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver) is there anything else special I need to add. What would the connection string be? I am using the following for url:…
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Testcase iteration for assertion validation
Hi all, Using scripting how to iterate the testcase for performing validations for Assertion for error codes , my requirement is I would be creating a custom assertion code using groovy where it will be fetching the errors codes from writable datasource ( where we will be storing 10-20 api error codes) . Now once the rest…