09 July 2009 - 3.0 |
soapUI is a standard desktop application adhering to established User Interface concepts for Integrated Development Environments, as available in for example Eclipse, NetBeans and IDEA. Most actions have keyboard shortcuts and tooltips, you should have no problems finding your way around. soapUI makes heavy use of "Inspectors"; i.e. tabs that can be shown and hidden by selecting them.
The soapUI window is divided into the following views:
left The main navigator showing a hierarchy of all projects, interfaces, etc. (see below)
| right The soapUI desktop containing editors and viewers for those double clicked items in the navigator.
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bottom-left
| bottom right A color coded log view showing log messages from soapUI |
You can set a centered background image for the default desktop by placing a soapui-backgroung.gif/jpg/png file in the soapUI bin folder when using the default desktop
The following objects are currently shown in the navigator tree:
Project node(s) : for each project in the workspace
Interface/Service node(s) : for each WSDL Interface or REST Service in the project
Operation/Resource node(s) : for each WSDL Operation or REST Resource in the containing Interface/Service
WSDL Request node(s) : for each WSDL request created for the containing WSDL Operation
REST Resource node(s) : for each child REST Resource
REST Method node(s) : for each REST Method defined for a Resource
REST Request node(s) : for each REST Request created for the containing REST Method
TestSuite node(s) : for each TestSuite in the project
TestCase node(s) : for each TestCase in the TestSuite
MockService node(s) : for each MockService in the project
MockOperation node(s) : for each MockOperation in the MockService
MockResponse node(s) : for each MockResponse in the containing MockOperation
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soapUI bundles the JXBrowser component provided by TeamDev software for displaying HTML pages (the startup page, etc) and REST responses in the HTML Response Viewer, which gives broad file format support (images, flash-movies, etc..). Unfortunately this component does not work under a 64-bit JRE and will in this situation disable itself. If you are experiencing other issues with soapUI that seem to be related to JXBrowser, adding the -Dsoapui.jxbrowser.disable=true flag to the command-line options (see ) will disable it anyhow.
soapUI provides extensive support for dragging and dropping items in the Navigator, resulting in corresponding Clone or Move operations, alternatively add or import actions, for example dragging a Request to a TestCase creates a TestRequest Step corresponding to the dragged Request. It is also possible to drag and drop within or between the TestSuite and TestCase editors and the Navigator to rearrange, move, or copy items.
Most actions in soapUI are performed through toolbar buttons or context sensitive right-button menus. The following actions are available from the main menu:
File Menu
The first 9 actions are the same as those for the Workspace popup menu, please go to the Workspaces page for details. After these come the following actions:
Tools Menu
Desktop Menu - Shows actions related to the currently selected Desktop.
Help Menu - general information and soapUI Pro specific actions
The System Properties option from the help menu opens a simple dialog showing all current defined system properties, which can be useful for debugging system or security settings, etc?
The bottom right of the soapUI workspace contains a number of log windows, each displaying corresponding output;
Right clicking on a log will show a popup menu with options to clear and enable or disable the log and to copy selected rows to the clipboard. Also, log-entries can be selected or copied to the clipboard for transfer to external tools. An option to set the maximum number of rows is available (default is 1000), when exceeding this limit, old rows are removed from the log (i.e. fifo).
The following tabs are currently displayed (when needed):
soapUI uses log4j for logging, you can customize the log4j configuration by putting a log4j xml configuration file named "soapui-log4j.xml" in the soapUI bin directory (or the current working directory when not running from there).