SoapUI Mock integrated in Maven test

Question

I was wondering how to perform some integration tests for a WSClient. My project is built with maven.

In order to test the configuration initialization and some requests I thought it was a good idea to start a SoapUI Mock service. Then I got into that configuration retrieved from some posts.

In my pom.xml

    <plugin>
            <groupId>eviware</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-soapui-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>StartupMock</id>
                    <configuration>
                        <projectFile>src/test/soapui/MyMock-soapui-project.xml</projectFile>
                        <outputFolder>${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports</outputFolder>
                        <junitReport>true</junitReport>
                        <host>http://127.0.0.1:8181</host>
                        <mockService>DataProviderMock</mockService>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>test</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <phase>test</phase>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

My MockService called MyMock should have been started on http://127.0.0.1:8181/somepath where my WSClient could send the requests. But I wasn't able to start the mock during the mvn test phase.

Is that the apropriate way to test WSClients? In that case, where is the problem or the misconfiguration?

EDIT: There is no error. I can't see the mock listening on that port 8181. The only messages I see (from soapui.log) are:

2012-03-21 10:17:21,011 WARN  [SoapUI] Missing folder [D:\proyectos\everest-utils\everest-bridge\trunk\.\ext] for external libraries
2012-03-21 10:17:21,392 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] initialized soapui-settings from [C:\Users\rromero\soapui-settings.xml]
2012-03-21 10:17:23,205 INFO  [WsdlProject] Loaded project from [file:/D:/proyectos/everest-utils/everest-bridge/trunk/src/test/soapui/MyMock-soapui-project.xml]
2012-03-21 10:17:23,891 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Running soapUI tests in project [DataProvider]
2012-03-21 10:17:23,894 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Running Project [MyMock], runType = SEQUENTIAL
2012-03-21 10:17:23,900 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Project [MyMock] finished with status [FINISHED] in 0ms

Than you in advance and kind regards,

Ruben

Answer 1

According to http://www.soapui.org/Test-Automation/maven-2x.html you need to run the mock goal instead of the test goal. Please change your goal section to call the mock goal:

    <plugin>
        <groupId>eviware</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-soapui-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>4.6.1</version>
        <executions>
            <execution>
                <id>StartupMock</id>
                <configuration>
                    <projectFile>src/test/soapui/MyMock-soapui-project.xml</projectFile>
                    <outputFolder>${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports</outputFolder>
                    <junitReport>true</junitReport>
                    <host>http://127.0.0.1:8181</host>
                    <mockService>DataProviderMock</mockService>
                    <noBlock>true</noBlock>
                </configuration>
                <goals>
                    <goal>mock</goal>
                </goals>
                <phase>process-test-classes</phase>
            </execution>
        </executions>
    </plugin>

Two more changes:

• Make sure you start the mock test in a phase previous to running the tests, e.g. in pre-integration-test or process-test-classes
• Add the noBlockoption with true.

See above for example.