1. Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite
  2. Completing Your Application
  3. Automating Testing of SOA Composite Applications
  4. Editing the Contents of Test Cases in Test Mode in the SOA Composite Editor
  5. How to Emulate Outbound Messages

How to Emulate Outbound Messages

To emulate outbound messages:

Note:

The creation of multiple emulations in an instance in a test case is supported only if one emulation is for an output message and the other is for a callback message.

You can simulate a message returned from a synchronous web service partner.

  1. Go to the SOA composite application in test mode.
  2. Beneath the testsuites folder in the Applications window, double-click a test case. Figure 51-10 provides details.

    Figure 51-10 Test Case Access

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    Description of "Figure 51-10 Test Case Access"

    The SOA composite application in the SOA Composite Editor is refreshed to display in test mode. This mode enables you to define test information.

  3. Double-click the wire of the SOA composite application area to test. For the example shown in Figure 51-11, the wire between the LoanBroker process and the synchronous CreditRating web service is selected.

    Figure 51-11 Wire Access

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    Description of "Figure 51-11 Wire Access"

    This displays the Wire Actions dialog shown in Figure 51-12, from which you can design emulations and assertions for the selected part of the SOA composite application.

    Figure 51-12 Wire Actions Dialog

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    Description of "Figure 51-12 Wire Actions Dialog"
  4. Click the Emulates tab.
  5. Click the Add icon.
  6. Click Emulate Output.
  7. Enter the details described in Table 51-7:

    Table 51-7 Emulate Output Message Dialog Fields and Values

    Field Value

    Part

    Select the message part containing the output (for example, payload).

    Value

    Create a simulated output message to return from a web service partner:

    • Enter Manually

    Click to manually enter message data in the Enter Value field. A Generate Sample button enables you to automatically generate a sample file for testing. Click Save As to save the sample file.

    • Load From File

    Click the Browse icon to load message data from a file. The file is added to the messages folder in the Applications window.

    Duration

    Enter the maximum amount of time to wait for the message to be delivered from the web service partner.

    Figure 51-13 shows this dialog:

    Figure 51-13 Emulate Dialog with Emulate Output Selected

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    Description of "Figure 51-13 Emulate Dialog with Emulate Output Selected"

    A simulated output message from a synchronous web service partner that you enter manually or load from a file looks as follows:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!-- Generated by Oracle SCA Test Modeler version 1.0 at [7/3/07 3:26 PM]. -->
<compositeTest compositeDN="CompositeTest"
 xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/sca/2006/test">
  <about></about>
  <initiate serviceName="client" operation="initiate" isAsync="true">
    <message>
      <part partName="payload">
        <filePath>loanApplication.xml</filePath>
      </part>
    </message>
  </initiate>
  <wireActions wireSource="LoanBroker/CreditRatingService" operation="process">
    <emulate duration="PT0S">
      <message>
        <part partName="payload">
          <filePath>creditRatingResult.xml</filePath>
        </part>
      </message>
    </emulate>
  </wireActions>
</compositeTest>

    The creditRatingResult.xml message file referenced in the output message provides details about the credit rating result. 

    <rating xmlns="http://services.otn.com">900</rating>
  8. Click OK.