soapUI Script features

Question

What are the functionalities in soapUI that can be achieved only through script and not the GUI

Answer 1

With scripting you can:

• setup the test environment (e.g. prepare test data, initialize test conditions)
• dynamically create requests (using current date, generating IDs, insert random values)
• script complex test cases, pass the parameters/results between steps
• you can do looping, e.g. take a list of files and send them as requests
• create reports of the tests, save the test requests and responses
• write custom assertions/validations of the responses
• compare actual responses with expected responses
• create dynamic mock services: choose or create responses programatically
• you can simulate any expected activity, e.g. if you don't have a complete test environment which would do it otherwise
• and much more.

What is importat you can tailor your tests according to your needs, thus make them much more valid and effective.

See SoapUI docs for some examples.

Answer 2

One of the things that you can achieve using Groovy scripting is building dynamic responses in mocked services. You can find an example in the following question:

SoapUI getting request parameters in mock service script