[Dev] more soapui test runner details

[Frank Cohen]

fyi. -Frank


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ole Matzura <ole at eviware.com>
> Date: March 23, 2007 4:08:01 PM PDT
> To: Frank Cohen <frank at pushtotest.com>
> Cc: Niclas Reimertz <niclas at eviware.com>
> Subject: Re: Thanks for the phone call today
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> thanks to you too.. of course we are pretty excited to have an  
> authority like yourself being an advocate for soapUI ;-)
>
> Regarding integration with our testrunner(s), have a look at http:// 
> www.soapui.org/userguide/commandline/functional.html for some info  
> on the SoapUITestCaseRunner and how it can be called directly from  
> your code.. regarding thread safety you will either have to create  
> separate instances of the testrunner for each thread or use the  
> load testing features in soapUI to run multiple threads (there is a  
> corresponding loadtestrunner for this).. dont hesitate to contact  
> us with more technical and/or overview questions..
>
> Just to clarify the difference between soapUI and the commercial  
> soapUI Pro; soapUI Pro will provide
> - professional support, more online tutorials and documentation,  
> prioritized feature requests, etc..
> - "productivity enhancements"; outline/form editors for messages,  
> xpath wizards for creating assertions/property-transfers,  
> specialized test-steps for data-driven testing and testing of  
> asynchronous services, etc..
> -> soapUI Pro will not introduce any new core functionality not  
> already available/possible in soapUI, it will just make "life"  
> easier for our professional users..
>
> enjoy the conference, looking forward to your recaps!
>
> regards,
>
> /Ole
> eviware.com
>
>
> Frank Cohen wrote:
>> Hi Ole and Niclas: Thank you for the call today. I am glad to see  
>> you made progress on the product and the business model. I advised  
>> my developers about our talk, see below. Let me know if I got  
>> something wrong. I look forward to speaking with you in a couple  
>> of weeks. I'll be blogging about the release of the commercial  
>> soapui next week.
>>
>> -Frank
>>
>> ---
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>> Sent to dev at lists.pushtotest.com:
>>
>> I spoke with Ole Matzura and Niclas Reimertz of the soapui  
>> project. They support bundling soapui with TestMaker 5. They  
>> advised to use soapui 1.7. They told me there is a soapui test  
>> runner in 1.7 that we should use to execute soapui tests. Provided  
>> that there is nothing in their test runner that would keep us from  
>> running in a multi-threaded TestNode environment, it seems better  
>> to use their test runner than to transform their XML files when  
>> using soapui tests in TestMaker. Please investigate their test  
>> runner to make sure there that it is thread safe and will scale.
>>
>> Other things we discussed:
>> - They are working on a commercial version of soapui that they  
>> will announce next week. The commercial version is built on soapui  
>> 1.7 and adds wizards to perform XPath and other functions. The  
>> commercial version comes with support services. soapui 1.7 will be  
>> LGPL and the commercial version is a wrapper around the LGPL core  
>> soapui 1.7 jars.
>> - They distribute soapui documentation under a free license and we  
>> may include it in the TestMaker distribution.
>>
>> -Frank
>>
>> -- 
>> Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374  
>> 7426
>> TestMaker: The open-source SOA governance and test automation tool
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>> -- 
>> Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374  
>> 7426
>> TestMaker: The open-source SOA governance and test automation tool
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Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374 7426
TestMaker: The open-source SOA test automation tool