23-Aug-2016
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I've been doing
testing with SoapUI testrunner.sh script recently and have come across a very peculiar behaviour. If you run a specific test case,
testrunner.sh will not execute the
Groovy Setup Script for the
test suite that the
test case belongs to. However at the same time if you enable response capture and don't specify the
test suite, the
test suite name will appear as a part of the request/response file name. It seems that
SoapUI is still processing the test suite, just not running any of its setup code.
My setup scripts were simple for the purpose of this post, they simply logged a message...
When I ran the test case with this command:
...all I saw in the logs was the message from my
test case setup script...
The
test suite setup is not executed. However if I leave the
test case out and just run the
test suite as a whole like so:
...the output changed to...
Both the
test suite and
test case setup scripts are executed.
According to
SoapUI Support,
"This is not necessarily a limitation." However I would argue that this is indeed a huge limitation and that the
test suite setup should be executed every time a
test case is run.
Here's a screenshot of my setup in case the above is not clear. The same behaviour is observed in the
SoapUI GUI.
There really is no good workaround for this apart from putting your setup code into the
test case or running the entire
test suite every time.
-i
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