18 November 2008 - 2.5 |
In soapUI a Workspace is a collection of Projects, just like in, for example, eclipse:
${user.home}/default-soapui-workspace.xml
file.
Switch workspaces using the New or Switch Workspace actions described below, if switching to another workspace, soapUI
will remember this until the next session and use that workspace instead.At startup soapUI loads all project files contained in the last used workspace and
opens them if they were not previously closed (see below). If a project file is for some reason not available
it will be grayed out and displayed as disabled, with right-click options to either remove it from the
workspace or reload it (optionally from a new location). Projects can be imported and created and removed from the workspace using the Menu Choices on the Workspace or in the Project popup menus. |
When exiting, soapUI will automatically save all project files in the workspace, except for those that still have running tests. A prompt will ask to ignore these or abort the exit. If soapUI detects that a project file has been modified externally since it was last loaded, based on modification date, it will first prompt if to overwrite the file or leave it as it is.
Projects can be closed/opened as desired using corresponding popup-menu actions; closed projects are displayed with a grey icon and can easily be opened by either double-clicking them or using the corresponding right-button menu option. Closed projects are not read into memory which will greatly improve startup time and memory consumption and A projects open or close state is remembered in the workspace when restarting or switching workspaces and a global UI Setting is available (see Preferences) for always closing all projects when loading a new workspace.
The following actions are available from the workspace nodes right-button menu (and from the main "File" menu):
The "Details" tab shown in the bottom left shows the following values when the workspace node is selected in the navigation tree