Testing secured web service methods with SOAP UI

OVERVIEW Securing Web Service methods to protect them from malicious attackers, has been an indispensable part of SOA and web services for mobile applications. However, it also makes testing the web methods equally hard and unmanageable. I have been using SOAP UI for testing the web services of one of our mobile applications, where the web team has secured the REST web methods (PHP) using headers with encrypted values using HMAC hash and AES-256 algorithms. Here, I’ll share how we can use a groovy script (essentially Java code, for those who are not familiar with groovy) and property transfers in our SOAP UI test cases, automate test the secured web methods or anywhere you need to send the encrypted values…