soapUI Assertions

soapUI Assertions are nothing but validations which can be added to various test steps in a soapUI test case/ Project.

There are different types of assertions and assertions can vary based on the test steps. The two test steps which has assertions are JDBC Request and Test Request. The assertions for JDBC requests are to validate the values retrieved from the database, where as the assertions for Test Request are to validate the data returned by the web service response. Below are the list of assertions available for Test Request (soapUI Pro Version 4.0.1).

• Invalid HTTP Status Codes
• JMS Timeout
• WS-Security Status
• Not SOAP Fault
• Response SLA
• Valid HTTP Status Codes
• SOAP Response
• Script Assertion
• WS-Addressing Response
• Contains
• XQuery Match
• Sensitive Information Exposure
• JMS Status
• Schema Compliance
• XPath Match
• SOAP Fault
• Not Contains

As mentioned in the above paragraph, the assertions are different  based on the test steps. Let us see what are all the assertions available in JDBC Request.

• JDBC Timeout
• JDBC Status
• Response SLA
• Script Assertion
• Contains
• XQuery Match
• XPath Match
• Not Contains