Using soapUI to do testing as part of a Maven2 build

soapUI has a Maven plugin. soapUI has a Maven getting started guide and Maven has a Maven getting started guide. Well I thought I would have a go at joining them together, so I can a Maven script automatically run my soapUI tests and output a jUnit compatible results file.

Pre Reqs:

• Maven 2 installed
• soapUI with a project that already has some tests setup

Steps:

1. Setup a new project. This will create you a new project in a new directory called app. To do this run "mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=nz.geek.karit.app -DartifactId=app"
   
2. To pom.xml add:
   

   <!--Add the repository for where Maven can find the soapUI Plugin-->
   <pluginRepositories>
      <pluginRepository>
         <id>eviwarePluginRepository</id>
         <url>http://www.eviware.com/repository/maven2/</url>
      </pluginRepository>
   </pluginRepositories>
   <build>
   <plugins>
     <plugin>
     <groupId>eviware</groupId>
     <artifactId>maven-soapui-plugin</artifactId>
     <!--This is the version of soapUI to grab from plugin repo-->
     <!--At the time of writing the 3.0.1 plugin had not been created-->
     <version>2.5.1</version>
     <configuration>
       <!--The location of your soapUI setting file-->
       <projectFile>/home/test/test.xml</projectFile>
       <!--Where to place the output of the run-->
       <outputFolder>/home/test/output/</outputFolder>
       <!--Make the jUnit results file-->
       <junitReport>true</junitReport>
     </configuration>
     <executions>
       <execution>
         <id>soapUI</id>
         <!--Run as part of the test phase in the Maven lifecycle-->
         <phase>test</phase>
         <goals>
           <!--Run the test phase of eviware:maven-soapui-plugin-->
           <goal>test</goal>
         </goals>
       </execution>
     </executions>
     </plugin>
   </plugins>
   </build>
   

   
   
3. You can now run the soapUI tests by calling "mvn eviware:maven-soapui-plugin:test"
   
4. It will also run as part of Maven with "mvn test" for example

For all the different properties you can set see: http://www.soapui.org/plugin/maven2/properties.html

Along with running the test you can also run the loadtests and start the mock web service all from Maven. You can do this by calling a goal other than test. For the details see: http://www.soapui.org/plugin/maven2/goals.html

My full pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>nz.geek.karit.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>app</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>app</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
<!--Add the repository for where Maven can find the soapUI Plugin-->
<pluginRepositories>
   <pluginRepository>
      <id>eviwarePluginRepository</id>
      <url>http://www.eviware.com/repository/maven2/</url>
   </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<build>
<plugins>
  <plugin>
  <groupId>eviware</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-soapui-plugin</artifactId>
  <!--This is the version of soapUI to grab from plugin repo-->
  <!--At the time of writing the 3.0.1 plugin had not been created-->
  <version>2.5.1</version>
  <configuration>
    <!--The location of your soapUI setting file-->
    <projectFile>/home/test/test.xml</projectFile>
    <!--Where to place the output of the run-->
    <outputFolder>/home/test/output/</outputFolder>
    <!--Make the jUnit results file-->
    <junitReport>true</junitReport>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>soapUI</id>
      <!--Run as part of the test phase in the Maven lifecycle-->
      <phase>test</phase>
      <goals>
        <!--Run the test phase of eviware:maven-soapui-plugin-->
        <goal>test</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  </plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>