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SoapUI - Part 3: Automation

SoapUI can be used as well for automated testing purposes. All the test suites developed through this tool can be executed any way without its user interface, for example using an automated build tool. The SoapUI test cases can be triggered from a command prompt in several ways: a batch file, a shell script, Maven, etc. This post will focus on Apache Maven ( http://maven.apache.org/ ). I will refer to the release 3.1.1. I suggest the readers to have the basics of Maven and Jenkins ( http://jenkins-ci.org/ ) for a better understanding of this post. First of all create the pom.xml file for your Maven project. Add the Maven repository from which to download the soapui plugin: <pluginRepositories>         <pluginRepository>             <id>eviwarePluginRepository</id>             <url>http://www.soapui.org/repository/maven2/</url>         </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> Then setup the SoapUI plugin for Maven. We are going t