Web service functional testing by using Soap UI tool

http://www.soapui.org/Functional-Testing/functional-testing.html

What is crowd testing

U-test provides service call it as “crowd sourced” testing model with a global community of professionals.
The community reflects the diversity (e.g. multiple geographic locations, languages spoken) of the apps and users themselves.

We can consider it as user satisfaction testing because testers might come from different countries with different Operating systems ,real devices and real network conditions.
And at the same time we can consider it as exploratory testing as well because they are exploring an application without having predefined document and finding a bugs.

'mvn' is not recognized as an internal or external command, [closed]

First of all type this command

mvn -version

It should show some path where  maven has installed.

If maven is not installed install maven

After installation of maven
Type this command on command prompt
echo %MAVEN_HOME%

It should show the path if you would have had already setup environment variables.

If not please follow these steps to setup environment variables

Start-> Computer -> Right click on this
Click on -> Properties -> Advanced system settings ->


Advanced (tab)-> Environment Variables

Now click on "path" variable

Click on OK


Now again on command prompt type this one
echo %MAVEN_HOME%
it should show details

How to set up environment variables for Java and Maven

Start-> Computer -> Right click on this
Click on -> Properties -> Advanced system settings ->


Advanced (tab)-> Environment Variables



http://www.itechtalk.com/thread3595.html

Now click on Path variable

difference between java cucumber and .net Specflow

Here you can get good explanation with examples

http://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2013/08/25/automated-acceptance-testing-with-cucumber-for-net-and-java/

How to do Force update snapshots / releases maven on eclipse

And after that go to Eclipse 

Right click on your project after that
Maven -> Update your project - >
Click Force update of  snapshots / Releases

Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.5

Solution :
Under .M2 folder(hint: click on start->search for .M2 it will show list of folders select .M2 folder)

Settings.xml file might be missing proxy settings or

Your proxy settings password expired

Just in case if you don't have any proxy details you can use this

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<settings>
 <proxies>
  <proxy>
   <active>true</active>
   <protocol>http</protocol>
   <host>proxyurl</host>
   <port>8080</port>
   <username>proxyusername</username>
   <password>password</password>
  </proxy>
 </proxies>
</settings>


And after that go to Eclipse 

Right click on your project after that
Maven -> Update your project - >
Click Force update of  snapshots / Releases