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ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in…
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ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to code.
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SoapUI and its Pro version, ReadyAPI, are widely used tools for integrating, verifying, and testing web services. They are highly scalable and configurable, allowing for custom test script creation and automation of various test activities. Users have found SoapUI useful in validating complex analysis platforms, establishing baselines for customization, and verifying APIs across multiple products with different interfaces like SOAP, REST, AMF, and JDBC.
Yahoo's Technical Account Management team relies on SoapUI to analyze SOAP messages and troubleshoot issues with ad platforms. Developers, integrators, and technical product managers use SoapUI for testing, automation, and support purposes. ReadyAPI is the go-to tool for API testing, making it easy to create and manage tests. It helps in verifying breakages, tracing back problems to ensure correct data returns, validating endpoint functionality, and load testing with specific scenarios using production data.
ReadyAPI supports API testing throughout the digital transformation process from prototyping to deployment. It is also used for API test automation and integration with Jenkins. Moreover, it assists in importing and structuring web services, API mockups, functional testing, security testing, deploying code to the cloud using containers, and integrating with third-party tools like Bamboo. With its comprehensive features for SOAP and REST service testing, ReadyAPI is recommended for a wide range of API testing needs.
Swagger Integration: Many users have praised the ability of SoapUI and ReadyApi to read in endpoints for a restful web service via a Swagger page or definitions file. This feature has been described as extremely helpful, with reviewers appreciating the time-saving aspect of not having to figure things out directly or rely on specs to build their requests. Additionally, the ability to easily update endpoints when they change was seen as a valuable feature.
Groovy Functions: Users have found the addition of groovy functions in SoapUI and ReadyApi to be very useful. They appreciate being able to use a programming language with Java libraries, which provides them with much more flexibility in how they process results and build follow-up requests.
Auto-generation of Test Cases: The auto-generation of test cases in SoapUI Pro has received high praise from users. It gives them a good head start on their testing efforts by building a set of tests that cover at least the happy path scenarios. Users also appreciate the visual guide provided by the test case GUI, which helps them structure their suites and scenarios effectively.
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- Lacking User Interface and Experience: Some users have found SoapUI's user interface to be confusing, old-fashioned, and not user-friendly. They have expressed the need for enhancements in terms of design and usability.
- Slow Performance: Several users have experienced slow performance with SoapUI, particularly when loading projects, switching between tabs, and during startup. They have also encountered errors related to insufficient memory, resulting in frustration and delays.
- Limited JMS Support and Third-Party Tools Dependency: Users have mentioned that SoapUI relies on an outdated 3rd party program called HermesJMS for JMS interactions. This limitation restricts their ability to run parallel test suites efficiently. Additionally, they have pointed out the limited support for JMS and the need for third-party tools for AMF method discovery.
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ReadyAPI is my go to tool. We do a lot of API testing, and with ReadyAPI the tests are easy to create and manage. The business problems we are able to address using ReadyAPI in conjunction with our CI/CD we can easily verify if a breakage occurs. When our tests start failing, we can easily trace back what the problem is connected to and easily verify whether the data returning is correct or not.
- Test Suite Management
- Test Step Updates
- Import APIs from SwaggerHub
- Would love to see some built in groovy scripts for easy addition and editing
- The documentation can be lacking, ex: Wildcards and how to implement, as well as groovy scripts
- Love the dark theme, but wish I could pick colors, as some of the functions are hard to read
June 26, 2022
ReadyAPI - the first choice for API automation
I have worked on different API automations like Ready API, Rest Assured, Katalon Studio, Karate etc. And after evaluating different tools we found that ReadyAPI is far superior to other API automation tools. It supports testing for Rest, SOAP, GraphQL, etc. It is a Scriptless API testing tool. Data-driven testing and Security testing are important features of this tool. It also has a feature to measure test coverage. So far Ready API is one of the best API automation tool I have come across in recent times.
- Scriptless
- Data driven testing
- API Reporting dashboard
- Security and Performance testing
- Run Test suites in parallel
- Property Transfer
- Only supports Groovy script
- Licensing cost
- Limited options available to generate data using Data source
June 13, 2022
API testing made simple
When our organization shifted focus to building software in micro-service-style architecture, we needed a good tool to test the APIs. ReadyAPI was a great solution as it makes automation and performance testing very easy. A lot of tools in the market are good for manual testing but not for automated ones.
- It makes API automation seamless, easy, and efficient.
- Performance testing, distributing load, and key performance indicators are very well put together to help improve the performance of APIs.
- Even non-programmers can quickly ramp up and write efficient automation tests.
- Such a good tool and I love it. There are many open-source tools that do the same and are free.
- Adding visuals to show chaining or dependent apis will be helpful.
- Adding contract testing feature to the toolset will improve the value immensely.
January 12, 2022
Speeding up QA tasks
We use ReadyAPI almost daily for API testing and automating our test case suite for future runs. This helps us especially when doing regression testing of many of our components (around 10) and allows us to run the whole suite of +1000 tests in a couple of hours, and this is only for ONE team within the company!
- Generating test data
- Reusability of test steps
- Flexibility on creation of assertions
- Running big batches of tests can break the application or freeze the UI interaction
- Creation of result reports
- Version control is not possible (branching, merging, etc.)
January 11, 2022
ReadyAPI : Good Tool
ReadyAPI enables our team to create, manage and run automated functional, security, and performance tests of RESTful, SOAP, Kafka, and other web services within a centralized interface, driving thus the quality of APIs.
- API
- Alerts/Notifications
- Productivity analysis
- Test management
- Data extraction
- VSC doesn't work well
- No connector to NoSQL database
- Performance
January 07, 2022
Software QA Manager
We use ReadyAPI for Functional and Security Testing for our API updates. This allows us to have consistent testing with quick turnarounds per release.
- allows for data driven testing
- allows functional tests to be run at a project, test suite, and test case level, making it very flexible
- security testing is made quick and easy
- The copy/paste functionality in the requests, results and data source grids has been lost and does slow down work.
- The tool is memory heavy and memory usage could be improved.
- I have some long calls that "work" but don't respond before the UI times out. These are requests I am using to stuff variables for the subsequent requests. It should be possible to extend the wait time of the tool, as long as the Request is working.
December 06, 2021
To ReadyAPI or Not
ReadyAPI is used to validate endpoint functionality and for load testing. The main purpose of using the tool is to create specific scenarios that can be mocked by utilizing files with actual production data and then running it against different endpoints to confirm code is providing the correct response
- data validation
- load testing
- endpoint availability
- change ability between the free and paid version
- better tutorials
- better bulk processing
August 13, 2021
ReadyAPI - Must have tool for API testing
In our company, ReadyAPI is mainly used for testing API services.
Our main objective is to test services across many environments, also we need scripts to generate data, etc. That's why we started using ReadyAPI, which has different environment support and is easily changed in one click. ReadyAPI also supports Groovy scripts and WSDL.
ReadyAPI is a great tool to create test steps and their flows also has a nice assertions system.
Our main objective is to test services across many environments, also we need scripts to generate data, etc. That's why we started using ReadyAPI, which has different environment support and is easily changed in one click. ReadyAPI also supports Groovy scripts and WSDL.
ReadyAPI is a great tool to create test steps and their flows also has a nice assertions system.
- Multi Environment Support
- Several test cases and its flows management
- Scripts support
- Complex assertion system
- GIT, Jenkins, Docker Support
- Dark Mode
- Simple test cases copy paste functionality
- Changing several assertions same time
August 11, 2021
My ReadyAPI experience
- It is used by my project
- It helps us with automating our APIs
- Saves time, manual effort and repetition
- Available plugins, though some I know are not yet supported
- It has a good logging mechanism
- UI needs to be improved. It's sometimes unstable.
- Plugin for Jira Cloud available, but not supported. This creates confusion
- For me, takes very long time to launch.
August 04, 2021
Great product, if you're willing to put the work in
ReadyAPI is used at our organization primarily in a testing capacity, within I.T.
When new functionality is implemented and is exposed via web services, both development teams, and testing teams, use ReadyAPI to test the functionality against expected results.
LoadUI Pro is also used, in a more limited capacity, by testing teams, to conduct performance testing of the web service.
When new functionality is implemented and is exposed via web services, both development teams, and testing teams, use ReadyAPI to test the functionality against expected results.
LoadUI Pro is also used, in a more limited capacity, by testing teams, to conduct performance testing of the web service.
- The ability to be data-driven is a huge asset.
- Cross-compatible with many protocols - it's not just SOAP-based.
- Provides a full eco-system of products. Very feature-rich.
- Solid Enterprise integration, including singles-sign-on, and OAuth2
- Pricing. It's both complicated to understand how it's priced, and it's very costly.
- The UI is very outdated. It's not a friendly user experience
- Lack of connectors for different, popular products and platforms
August 03, 2021
Feeling good while working on ReadyAPI, but yes, a few points for improvements are there.
Majorly, it used by one department for automated regression suites.
- Its drag n drop feature is easy to use.
- Data generator in data source is one of the best features of ReadyAPI
- Hierarchy of arranging test suites/cases/steps helps a lot in managing the stuff
- Should be able to add test step like REST even when there's no API added in the project.
- Its integration with GIT is very annoying, especially when you want to delete uncommitted changes and pull latest.
- Sometimes ReadyAPI made some changes of its own. These are also very annoying.
August 03, 2021
API Testing Made Easy
This tool is being used by developers and integrators to develop and test the various kinds of web services available within the IT system that we develop. It is also used to train on the various web services available and provide meaningful examples. The tool is also used to perform regression testing.
- Ability to use test data from previous requests
- Quick and easy to discover and connect to service endpoints
- When using Forms within a Test Step, doesn't also keep the values entered
August 01, 2021
Best all-in-one solution for API testing!
Our teams have been using ReadyAPI tools ever since we decided to implement automated testing to test our API services. After successfully using ReadyAPI Test to test our RESTful services for many years, we're now also starting to use it to load test our APIs. It allows us to create extensive functional and performance tests and benefits greatly our entire department.
- Ease of use (ability to automatically import API definitions, Jenkins integration for running in the pipeline).
- Detailed test reports (allow to easily identify weak spots during both functional and performance testing).
- One platform for all tests (allows to closely couple and reuse existent tests).
- Sometimes Ready API Test performs poorly or freezes when REST response contains a lot of data
- Performance Tests documentation could be updated to describe different assertion points with examples of usage.
- Ability to disable certain test steps only in the Performance Tests section, while leaving them on for Functional Tests could be added.
July 29, 2021
ReadyAPI - My Feedback
We use ReadyAPI for API manual testing and automating API tests. Developer team and QA team use ReadyAPI intensively.
- Working with multiple scripting languages, firstly groovy
- So handy for API mocking
- It is easy to automate API tests
- Usability can be improved. Sometimes doing simple something can be more complex
- There are some performance problems. It uses more resources on computer.
July 29, 2021
Let's Get the API Ready
ReadyAPI tools help us in the digital transformation which encompasses the API first approach, cloud native and micro-services based tech stack and platforms. REST APIs and services are built by numerous teams across departments and ReadyAPI is employed across different phases of SDLC lifecycle, from prototyping to development to testing and deployment.
- Create virtualised services
- Test the APIs and integrate in CI CD pipelines
- Development teams use to define the skeleton of services along with OpenAPI / Swagger
- Usability of GUI screens can be improved
- Sharing of API projects across teams, similar to Postman, can be implemented
July 29, 2021
Nice tool to automate API functional testing
Used on several accounts and users. Many use the free version but we have quite a bit of us who use the Pro version. Used for automating functional testing.
- Functional test automation
- WYSIWYG interface for data driven testing
- Matured product
- Can extend functionality with scripting
- Need phone support
- More examples of groovy script for advanced users
- Decrease load time
- Ability to connect to Google Sheets as data source/data sink
July 24, 2021
API Testing Made Easy!
ReadyAPI is mainly used by the Quality and Development departments in my organization. We mainly use it to conduct different types of testing on all kinds of web services like SOAP and REST services. It helps us conduct load tests, security tests, and functional tests as well. ReadyAPI is also very useful when it comes to automating the testing scenarios which helps us [as] a team get results much faster with better accuracy and thus delivering faster business value to our customers.
- Very useful features in Security Testing
- Support for Load Testing
- Can be used for Test Data Creation
- Automate Test Scenarios
- User Interface and User Experience need enhancements
- Sometimes it gets a bit slow
- No Test Results History
July 15, 2021
SOAP UI Hasn't Cleaned My Troubleshooting Needs Yet
We use it primarily for REST troubleshooting and authentication testing. It's the only application of its kind available on our locked-down development environment currently. We also use it for SOAP troubleshooting, as a lot of our medical data transfers use this standard.
- Managing different testing environments through projects.
- Makes a clear distinction between REST and SOAP troubleshooting.
- There are a lot of options available that support various data standards, some that are more obscure but help the person that needs it.
- When you need to just do a quick REST test, it takes too long to get everything setup from a new project.
- Adding authentications can be a pain, and if it's basic auth then you have to base64 encode it yourself.
- The UI used to be pretty ugly. Their update to it recently seemed to just put a flat look on everything to make it seem modern but didn't actually overhaul much. Buttons still jump around and move/shift when other dynamic areas change during a test that goes through a bunch of calls. Also, they still use child windows to control all the views, which isn't very nice to work with considering no other development application I use does that.
July 13, 2021
SoapUI makes QI life easier
It is being extensively used for importing web services and also creating a structure for web services. As a QA Automation Engineer, I am using it for API mockups, functional testing and even load testing. The security test feature is really helpful in checking the SQL injection and malicious code attachment with just a few clicks. SoapUI is helping us to deploy the code to the cloud with the help of containers, as all this possible because of the robust integration of SoapUI with the other third-party tools like Bamboo.
- By defining variables, you can customize parameter values without hard coding the values in the whole test-case.
- You can also use external data sheets to retrieve data to your executions.
- MockResponse module should be more enhanced and simplified.
- I wish SoapUI would allow you to make a sample request which only consists of the required fields and leaves the optional fields out of the sample.
April 28, 2021
Budget-Friendly Corporate Solution for API
SoapUI Pro is used for all API Automation testing, load testing, and security testing across the organization.
It address the functionality, flexibility, responsiveness and validity of our services. It allows smooth partner integration with our infrastructure. Smooth service testing and downstream system compatibility testing are done on daily basis. This tools allow us to achieve 95% automation capabilities in our services testing. Overall the tool adds a great value to our business.
- Random Data generational for testing.
- Transfer data from one response to multiple API calls without manual intervene.
- Security testing require enhancements.
- Tool has bad cache management and folder setup.
We build a lot of web services using various technologies like NODE JS and Springboot. But we have not found a better tool to test what we made and give our Product managers a good demo other than SoapUI Pro. We use SoupUI Pro extensively. It has a very clean and easy user interface and a lovely way to organize various URLs. We have explored other products like Postman, but nothing matches close to SoapUI Pro. We use it extensively for testing the APIs and Web services as well.
- SoapUI Pro helped us with asynchronous testing of the web services.
- Helped with our testing with data from databases and various files.
- Tad bit expensive than their competitors.
- No helpful with Web UI Testing and mobile app testing.
May 20, 2019
Fast debugging/testing for a better product
I use SoapUI whenever I need to test various endpoints be REST or SOAP. I usually set up various projects for different environments and within each project I setup multiple endpoints we want to test. I like the easiness of using the application to quickly debug any issues in any of our environments. I can get to the issue quickly and test it in multiple environments at the same time. I like the way I can jump from endpoint to endpoint with just switching windows back and forth and compare results in the same window and not worry about copying text to another text editor. I can do my workflow in the same application.
- Organization of different endpoints and environments.
- Easiness of use.
- Quickly debug issues with endpoints.
- Some times the UI freezes and I lose all my data.
- Dated UI.
- Autosave option.
April 20, 2019
Advantages of SoapUI over other and how it help. Me and my organization for better development
It is being used from time to time for testing our web services. I help developers to find and rectify issues, if any, before implementing it on the development system. It clears doubts about the functionality and output of the web service call.
- Can be easily used by technical and non-technical staff in multiple environments that are familiar to them.
- Its data-driven testing capabilities and real-world condition testing save a lot more time that can be put to some other usage.
- It simplifies regression testing and clearly shows the test approach used and testing areas covered.
- Test results and functionality can be tracked easily using test history and result comparison.
- Its report building template is very cool and understandable they provide and highlights each and every required information in a better way.
- It is quite heavy for old systems - The lite version could be beneficial for such old machines.
December 21, 2018
Great tool for testing web services
We use SoapUI in our organisation to simulate web services. There is a WSDL location which we copy and paste onto the SoapUI. After that we run XMLs through which data directly flows into our systems.
- Acts as a great external source to get data onto the main system.
- Runs all kinds of XMLs irrespective of their size.
- Great tool for API testing.
- Saving projects can be a little confusing for beginners.
- Sometimes it functions a bit slow for complex XMLs.
- UI is a bit outdated now and needs to get a new refreshing look.
December 19, 2018
A happy and proud user
Our whole organization is using SoapUI NG Pro. Specifically, it's being widely used across all QA departments for Webservice testing. All the REST and SOAP API testing projects are being tested using SoapUI NG Pro. We are testing REST and SOAP APIs manually as well as automate them using SoapUI NG Pro.
- Test validation on API responses
- Mock services to test parts of the application
- REST Discovery and Groovy scripting features
- Working with Git needs to be improved.
- The licenses could be more flexible with regards to floating licenses. In the case that a user changes a workstation, then the license locked to a certain workstation cannot be easily changed to another workstation. It would be more flexible if a license could be linked with the user personally.