Using dynamic properties

- [Narrator] I want to talk about one more powerful concept … that we have in SoapUI with properties. … This is called dynamic properties. … So I've set a request up here that uses … the world population API, and it will get us … the life expectancy of a male Canadian … at a certain date that is a certain age. … So, I've hard-coded a date here to January 1st 2019, … but what if we wanted to get it for today's date. … So every time we run this, we want it … to use the current date, and not this hard-coded date. … So let's take a look at how we can … do that with dynamic properties. … So, the first thing we'll do here … is just generate a test suite. … Okay, so, we've got a test case here, … let's open that up and we have today's date. … So instead of using this hard-coded value, … we need to somehow generate a value … that is today's date every time we run it. … So we can do that with this familiar dollar syntax … to start it, we'll put two brackets … and then inside of this brackets if we start …