Contain verification points enable you to check that part
of the contents that are returned by a service match the contents
specified in the verification point.
About this task
When you add verification points, the results from a service
response are compared with the expected data specified in the verification
point test element.
Equal or
contain verification
points enable you to directly compare the XML contents that the service
returns.
- Contain verification points return a Pass status when the response
XML contents contain the expected XML data.
- Equal verification points return a Pass status when the response
XML contents match exactly the expected XML data.
Procedure
- Open the test editor, and select a service response element.
- In the Test Element Details area,
click the Message tab and select the Tree view.
- Expand the envelope line, right click the element to check,
and then select Create Contain Verification Point. This creates a contain verification point including details from
the recorded response element.
- Select the verification point, and in the Test
Element Details area, type a name for the verification
point.
- Select the verification options:
- Select Test using XML namespaces to perform
the verification on the qualified structure of the XML document, including
the namespace tagging, instead of the simple name. Disable this option
to check only the simple name of the element and the final return
value.
- Select Text XML text nodes to include the
content of text elements in the verification.
- Select Text XML attributes to include the
content of attributes in the verification.
- On the Message page, select the Form, Tree, or Source view
to specify the expected XML data.
For an equal verification
point, the expected XML data contains the XML document from the response
test element. If necessary, you can edit the expected XML data.
You can specify standard Java regular expressions in the Tree view. To
do this, select the Regular expression column
on the line of an attribute or text value and type the regular expression
in the Value column. For example, the following
regular expression checks for a correctly formatted email address: /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/
When using regular expressions, the number of XML nodes or
XML fragments in the verification point must match the quantity of
expected nodes.
What to do next
You can enable or disable each verification point by right-clicking
the verification point in the test editor and clicking
Enable or
Disable.