What’s new

SoapUI 4.5 – The Big Ears Release

You spoke, we listened, and the result is the modestly named Big Ears Release. This release brings the most sought-after features that you, the SoapUI Community, voted for. Test debugging, multi-environment support and improved assertion handling are just some of the new features added in 4.5. Let’s get crunching!

Test-Debugging

Test Debugging (Pro)

Improve your test quality and follow test flows step-by-step with the long-awaited SoapUI Pro Test Debugging. The Debugging Interface simplifies following Test Flow, Variables, Properties, Requests, Context and much more making test creation and improvement more streamlined.

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Assertion-TestSteps

Assertion TestSteps (Pro)

Create validation for your entire TestCase with the new Assertion TestSteps, making verifying your tests both simpler and easier to maintain. Test any part of the test at any time; do joint tests with Boolean logic for success conditions.

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Message-Content-Assertion

Message Content Assertion (Pro)

Simplify your workflow by asserting any part of the content of a response with an intuitive point-and-click GUI, allowing for more sophisticated verification in less time.

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test-on-demand

TestOnDemand

Check how your API performs from the net, via SmartBear’s cloud. By running your TestCase on a location outside your local network you’ll be able to highlight any network related issues.

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Multi-Environment-Support

Multi Environment Support (Pro)

If you’re running your tests in different environments, such as staging and production, you’ll love this. In SoapUI 4.5 you are able to quickly change test setup depending on target environment.

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Floating-Licenses

Floating Licenses (Pro)

Even though floating licenses isn’t our preference, this is the Big Ears Release… and we listened. Our SoapUI Community convinced us that it is to their benefit that we support it. So, as of SoapUI 4.5, sharing licenses across your team is easier with the addition of floating licenses.

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But wait, there's more

Functional Testing

  • HTTP Monitor now works for all HTTP Methods
  • Improved the XPath Assertion to support wildcards within elements
  • Improved the XQuery Assertion to support wildcards within elements

Analytics

  • Added possibility to override JUnitReportCollector for creating custom JUnit style reports

Security

  • Enlarged the controls in Security Test

Technology Support

  • Added support for SAML 2
  • Added support for NTLM 2 and Kerberos
  • Added line numbers when having a Groovy Null Pointer

SoapUI 4.5 bugs fixed

Bugs fixed

  • Changed SOAP message to put elements in WSDL Defined proper sequence of when when elements were of complexe type
  • Updates to Schema Compliance
  • Fixes to WSDL handling that was changed between 3.6.1 and 4.0.0
  • Under some ciscumstances you could get NullPointerException when doing a Show Message Exchange for XML Bomb security test
  • Fixes to TestRunner for the HTTP test step when using 3.0.1 project files in 4.0.0
  • Fixed a SoapUI Pro Testrunner bug, When you overrode Global Properties you could get a ClassCastException
  • Under some circumstance a HTTP Redirect with path as location was not followed correctly
  • When trying to export Complex Project with many external dependencies you could get a Null pointer
  • Fixed and error loading WSDL’s containing UTF-8 Characters
  • Corrected JDBC connections when the uses used regexp in configurations
  • Fixed NPE’s when the users tried to start JMS in the context menu of a project
  • Fixed contains assertion to work with multi lines
  • Fixed issues with the maven2 plugin dependencies
  • The maven2 plugin would fail for composite projects if global properties were specified
  • Fixed soapUI problems on Java 7
  • Made Datasource Row or Column windows to be resizable
  • Optional recursive elements or types were not shown in form editor
  • Under some conditions it was not possible to delete multiple assertions using the keyboard delete button
  • REST TestSteps weren’t saving their assigned REST Resource and Method in some cases
  • Small Spelling and Language fixes...
  • Under some conditions the password in service endpoints and environments could be visible to the end user
  • Testcase that contains " (quotation mark) in its label weren’t executed in composite projects
  • Fixed a problem where a combination of soapUI composite project and SVN when renaming test suites
  • Custom Assertion weren’t visible in the list of available assertions
  • Corrected Mock War Packaging Issues
  • Pre encoded endpoints setting wasn’t working for REST or HTTP URLs
  • REST URL’s weren’t calculated correctly when endPoints had context
  • Importing WADL generated by SoapUI could break method names
  • Fixed GUI glitches for Assertion Display and Highlighting of List Items
  • Form view did not not create container elements for sequence of complex type containing only attributes
  • You could get a stackoverflow when calling selectFromCurrent from script assertion
  • The empty report template was missing language="groovy" attribute which gave the reporting engine issues
  • The Execution of Parallel TestCases in the Command Line runner did not execute any of the tests
  • If response message contains the text "\u0000" then the Outline view did not work anymore
  • NPE when creating Command Line report for failed REST requests
  • Corrected an inconsistent numbering of TestStep index
 

Test Debugging