How to Enable /Disable test step in soapUI using Groovy script ( inside each test cases) Based on which test step user wanted to enable or disable

Question

How to Enable /Disable test step in soapUI using Groovy script (inside each test cases) Based on which teststep user wanted to enable or disable.
Like:

• If I have one test cases and that test cases having 10 steps. I wanted to execute only those test cases which start with Online.
• If I have one test cases and that test cases having 10 step . I wanted to execute only those test cases which start with Batch.

Please find below sample which is throwing error:
Sat May 20 11:35:14 CEST 2017:ERROR:An error occurred [java.lang.NullPointerException], see error log for details while executing the next test cases.

Code:

context.testCase.testSuite.getTestCaseList().each
 {
    log.info "Test Case : ${it.name}".toUpperCase();
    it.testStepList.each 
    {
           log.info "Test Step--> : ${it.name}"

         def testStep = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName( "${it.name}" 
         log.info testStep.disabled
         if( testStep.disabled )
         {
            testStep.disabled = false

         }

      testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName("${it.name}").setDisabled(true)
            log.info testStep.disabled
            log.info "Action Perfomed for Test Step : ${it.name}"

    }
 }

Answer 1

In your code example, def testStep = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName( "${it.name}" is unecessary. It looks for a testStep with a special name in the testSuite containing the script that you run, which isn't there and you get a NullPointer exception. It can be simply replaced by 'it'

context.testCase.testSuite.getTestCaseList().each
{
    log.info "Test Case : ${it.name}".toUpperCase();
    it.testStepList.each 
    {
         log.info "Test Step--> : ${it.name}"

         log.info it.disabled
         if( it.disabled )
         {
            it.disabled = false
         }

        it.setDisabled(true)
        log.info it.disabled
        log.info "Action Perfomed for Test Step : ${it.name}"
    }
}