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SOAPSonar with HP Quality Center Integration

SOAPSonar is a HP Software Certified Application and provides native integration with HP Quality Center allowing test run information to be published directly into HP Quality Center. Tests can be run from either within a Quality Center project, or separately from the SOAPSonar console or command-line interface. SOAPSonar also provides an HP Quality Center console allowing browsing Test Instances, Test Sets, Defects, and Attachments. SOAPSonar projects can now be managed and stored directly within an HP Quality Center project. Read More

CLOUDPort Free Runtime Player for Troubleshooting

I get a lot of calls from clients having connectivity issues between the client and the services. Connecting between various labs, environments,  instances, sites etc  can be difficult for developers and testers to troubleshoot. Here is a simple free way to confirm connectivity at the web service level.

The CLOUDPort Runtime player is a free tool that can run mock virtualized services to test your client against. While the paid version of CLOUDPort allows you to create the run-times / responses you wish, the Free run-time, comes with 3 embedded solutions. An Echo Service, a Static Response Service and a Fault Service.

The runtime can be used in a variety of ways. The echo service is often used to check field mapping through a XML gateway or some transformation device, since the request is sent back as a response, you can confirm any manipulation of the request or response message. CLOUDPort Runtime also support load testing, providing real time performance information, using either echo or static response. I don’t want to try list all the possible uses cases of the free runtime, as I am sure many of you will come up with new ways.

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1. SOAPSonar – Installing and Getting Started

So new you new to SOAPSonar. Perhaps you joined a new team that uses it, a student,  or you downloaded a trial and trying to get started.   Here is a quick tutorial on the install and UI.

Installation

After downloading the latest version (request a no obligation 14 day trial here), install by right click and run as administrator. If you don’t install with Administrator rights, you should get warnings.

Once installed you should be presented with the registration screen. Please enter your name, company and email. If you are behind a web proxy, please first enter the proxy settings. These can be taken from your browser settings. Go, File, Settings and Preferences and select the Global Proxy Settings tab. enter your organizations proxy settings here before registering. Alternately you can select the Manual Activate button Option.

Proxy

If you doing and evaluation or your company uses Instance based licensing, enter your license key then select activate key.  Instance based licensing can only be loaded on one machine per license key.  Note if you using Instance based pricing, the number of days still on your license is shown.

Licenese

If your company uses Floating licenses centralized license server is used. The server is used to check-out or check back the license only and does not require persistent network access. Licenses server is only accessed at the time the lease is granted or released. The server is not a file server and need not be a dedicated machine, but requires a  static IP address and a small windows application. SOAPSonar can then be loaded onto as many machines as you would like, but only one machine can use a licensee at a time.  If you using floating licenses, select the button for Use License Server and enter the details.  (or hostname) and open port. Request New License Lease and select the Key Type and how long you wish to check the license out for.  Select Request License and if there is an available Floating license of the Key Type requested, SOAPSonar will activate.

License Server

The User Interface

UI

SOAPSonar UI follows the usual windows convention

  • File – File related tasks like new project, load project and save project with Settings and Preferences
  • Mode – SOAPSonar 4 pillars of QA (functional), Performance, Compliance, Vulnerability (security). Note the mode can also be changed in the right corner.
  • Tools – Various tools from key management to traffic capture.
  • Library – List of Automated Data Sources and vulnerability definitions that can be used.
  • Updates – To check for updates to the latest release. SOAPSonar does not require manual scripting. If manual scripts have not being used, upgrades should have no impact on test cases. It is highly recommended that you stay current to avoid known issues and get the new features.
  • Registration – Discussed above
  • Simulation – To launch a CLOUDPort generated run-time virtualized mock service to test against
  • Agents – For downloading and configuring remote performance load agents.
  • Help – Yes there is a help file.

Now each of the 4 pillars (QA, Performance, Compliance, Vulnerability) can be set to

  1. Project View – For the configuration of your Project Tree or Test Suite Groups for automating your testing.
  2. Run View – For running automated tests projects
  3. Report View – For those who actually want to see the results after a test is run.

Conclusion

You should now be ready to start testing. If you have a project and feeling ready, you can start that.

Else we are working on developing Tutorials. These will be very basic tutorials to highlight a few frequently used features that should not take more than a couple hours to complete.