Parasoft SOAtest vs SoapUI Open Source

Likelihood to Recommend

This is the go to tool for all the web service testing needs. You can do functional testing, regression testing, automate the testing and drive the data from external sources like a Excel spread sheet or an xml document and finally performance testing. It can get better in scenarios where the response is to be compared with UI, with more automation. The license cost needs to be considered when there are many open source tools out there in the market.

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Professional in Quality Assurance

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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If you are making system upgrade project and you have existing system working and you want to imitate messages that are going in production but without making any data loads or switch it’s very suitable and convenient software. It serves well in manual test scenarios but wouldn’t be as good in case of mass tests.

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Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pros

Organized test suites.
Fast and efficient execution of automated testing.
Built in Javascript that can be used to run test cases with a repository tool such as HP Quality Center. This will show the test results and allow the QA engineer to pass, fail, or set a test case to N/A.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Investment Banking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Using Groovy scripts to build requests, extract data from responses, and read and write into Excel files.
Script assertions can provide almost all ways you want to handle, parse your response and assert on certain items.
Load testing web services using different techniques.
Supports making calls to RESTful APIs.

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Ahmed Amer

Senior Quality Control Engineer

SumergeComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

As always, this is not a free tool and you have to pay for license. There are many open source tools which can perform similar job with no cost albeit with less functionality and more head work.
There is still some more room for improving the automation which can include more UI level components to make life lot easier when comparing the response vs UI.

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Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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I actually like SoapUI as it is, I have not found things to improve, except for the speed of response is very complex services.

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Abraham García

Web Development Manager

Newsbp.coLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Parasoft SOAtest 10.0

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I have used the tool at a previous company and I love it.

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Investment Banking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Parasoft SOAtest 9.0

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never had any issues

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Engineer in Information Technology

Investment Banking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Parasoft SOAtest 10.0

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anytime I had a question, I received feedback the same day from a representative at Parasoft SOAtest.

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Investment Banking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

Parasoft SOAtest 9.0

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Yes, I would like to know if there is any action to have Parasoft SOAtest integrated with Microsoft TFS

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Engineer in Information Technology

Investment Banking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Parasoft SOAtest stands out among all the other tools.

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Professional in Quality Assurance

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Compared to SoapUI, we have been using "light" tools like RestClient extension in Firefox, or Postman.Compared to Postman, SoapUI is more simple for WSDL / SOAP webservices, as SoapUI generate all envelop, but Postman does not.For Rest API, I think that Postman is a little above SoapUI, but not too far away.

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Jordan Deroubaix

Programmer

NXOInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

It has been of tremendous help as the ONE STOP TOOL to test the APIs end to end. Ease of use is great and their support staff is excellent. They always conduct brown bag sessions for us to learn about new features. Overall it has given us a great ROI considering how fast we can test and deliver to market.

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Professional in Quality Assurance

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Testing resolves most of the issues in the development phases.
User friendliness of the app makes it good.
Overall client happiness depends on the clean project, which is possible by testing.

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Ajay Kumar

Software Developer

Great Future Technology Pvt. Ltd.Computer Software, 11-50 employees

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