Quick Testing SOAP Web Services with Bats
=========================================

Bats is a lightweight testing framework for Bash and can be used
as a simple alternative to GUI-based SOAP testing tools like
Postman or SoapUI.

It is useful for automated checks from the command line, CI
systems, or cron jobs.


Installation
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	git clone https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
	sudo ./bats-core/install.sh /usr/local


Example Test
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	#!/usr/bin/env bats

	setup() {
		ENDPOINT="https://mocus.dynv6.net/hello"
	}

	@test "helloVoid" {
		response=$(curl -s -X POST \
			-H "Content-Type: text/xml" \
			-H "SOAPAction: helloVoid" \
			--data '' \
			"$ENDPOINT")

		result=$(echo "$response" | \
			xmllint --xpath "string(//return)" - \
				2>/dev/null)

		[[ "$result" = "Hello, world!" ]]
	}


Run
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	bats test.bats


Why Bats?
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- Minimal, no GUI
- Works everywhere
- Easy integration with CI or cron
- Plain shell scripting