Tip 2) Place your tests in a TestCase
There is a certain structure to how soapUI wants you to handle your tests, based on Best Practices, and you benefit so much from using that structure. That structure is not terribly hard to use, most testers structure tests like that already. Here is how it works: you have a group of tests, called TestSuites that contains the actual tests, called TestCases. A TestCase can in its turn contain a number of steps, called TestSteps. That's it.
If you follow the TestSuite, TestCase, TestStep structure you have so much to gain. Test reuse is easier; you can clone or copy tests as well as refer to them from other tests. It’s also much easier to run them as LoadTests in loadUI. Not only will the structure have technical benefits, it will also make testing easier for you; a well-structured test project will make navigation easier as well as provide a more clear overview of the amount of tests created and their purpose and method .
How do you take a request and put it in a TestCase? Well, try right clicking it (remember tip 1?) and select Add to TestCase. If you already have a TestCase you want to add the request to, you can just drag and drop it.
Next tip will address how you should name your tests once you've created them in the structure we've learned here.
