Testing SOAP WebServices with RestAssured

Testing web services? With no UI? Isn't that a Developers job?

Well... No... Since 2010, there's a free open source tool on the testing market which enables you to easily create web service requests and evaluation of responses. Nevertheless, it offers a cool Gherkin-style syntax which makes it even easier to understand and use. Since it is a free tool then it is only skills that are required to use it. And that would be just basic Java programming knowledge.

Here's a sample of what a simple RestAssured test would look like:

CreateInvoiceRequest request = new CreateInvoiceRequest(); @Test public void testInvoiceCreation(){ given().request() .body(request.setInvoiceNumber("someNumber").setInvoiceItem("someItem").done()) .when().post() .then().statusCode(200) .body(hasToString(containsString("<ns2:TotalRegistries>1</ns2:TotalRegistries>"))) .body(hasToString(containsString(request.getInvoiceNumber()))); } And where outside of it, we have defined the request template which we're going to use in CreateInvoiceRequest

Here are the results:

That is just one scenario which creates an invoice. Note that the execution time is about 1.5 seconds.

Next stop integrating tests in the build process.