Parameterization of SOAtest Tests

Indranil -

You can create an excel data source and parameterize your xml request using that data source (since we do not have a "Messaging Service" tool, I am assuming you are using a "Messaging Client", which requires a schema to define your xml messages).

First, go to the root node of the test suite, right click and select Add New > Data Source... and then click Excel. In the resulting window, input the file path to your excel data source. Note that your Excel file has to be formatted so that each column contains a data set for a single element, which the first row of each column being a label for the data set (i.e. column 1: [Countries, U.S.A., China, Japan, Britain, Germany]). Change the name of your excel data source from "New Datasource" to something else, and hit save. Click "Show Columns" to verify that your data sets in each column are there.

Now, go back to your Messaging Client. Close the editor and reopen it to refresh the tool. On the top right hand corner, verify that the tool detects the data source, which will display whichever name you named the data source. Copy paste your xml message into the editor in "Input Mode: Literal", then select "Input Mode: Form Input". For the elements that you want to parameterize, click on the element and change the dropdown from "Fixed" to "Parameterized", then select the data source column. Hit save and run the test; SOAtest will repeat the test once for each data point in the excel file.

To store the XML response, right click the Messaging Client and select Add Output > Response > Traffic. If you add an XML Data Bank, you can use it to store values and send them to a writable data source. You would run the Messaging Client tool once through first to populate the elements, select the elements you want to store, click "Modify" on each of them, select "Data source column", and select Writable Data source column (you will need to have added a Writable Data Source under Data Sources, making sure that it's set to one of the Standard Test Modes: Overwrite or Append). In Add Output > Response > Traffic, you can also add Write File, which will simply record the traffic in a .txt file.

Lastly, for validating XML response messages, you can go to Add Output > Response > Traffic and select XML Assertor to check whether the returned elements match the values you expect, or XML Validator to check the validity of the actual message itself.

Please also take a look at the help documentation for each of these features, as well as our SOAtest tutorial. If you need further help on these issues, I encourage you to contact our technical support staff at soatestsupport@parasoft.com.

Hi,

I am new to SOA Testing as well as the SOATest tool and hence may be asking a basic question but needed immediate help.I have to run a bunch of tests which are xmls being sent over http.The tool that I am using within SOA Test is 'Messaging Service' which would sent and receive pure xmls. Now , is there a process wherein my request xmls can read values for a few of it's tags from a datasource like an excel file and after the response is obtained for each of the tests run , the values in the tags of the response can be stored in another or the same excel file.Also, information on some validation process of the response xmls if existing would be fine.

Awaiting your reply.
Thanks.