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What is ReadyAPI?
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…
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What is ReadyAPI?
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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December 19, 2018
API testing using SOAPUI
We have used SoapUI for an automation testing of API's. Used test runner to run scheduler jobs which will automatically do the health checks of API's and update the status in the database. Later, that data is used to build dashboards which shows which API's are up and which are down along with the error details. It is used as part of monitoring test environments by environment teams. Test results and dashboards really help the environment team to find out the problematic component and help to create a mitigation plan.
- Create test cases and test suites for testing API's
- Test both SOAP and REST web services.
- Test runners for running automated jobs.
- It can be made more user-friendly, beginner users struggle to use the interface. For example, learning how to add request headers for different types.
- Hermes JMS is slow for testing MQ services and struggled to use SOAPUI over other message queue tools.
- By using SOAP UI test runner we removed the manual intervention for testing of API's.
December 19, 2014
SoapUi is a great product +1 will use again.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
SoapUI was used to test web services between in starting claims and uploading documents to our government client. It addressed adding information from outside vendors. The entire development team used SoapUi.
- Robust
- Easy to use
- Free version is nice
- If you don't know XML there is a huge learning curve.
- Creating test suites is tricky
- ROI is great because community version is free.
- Made or development process more efficient
- none
May 11, 2014
Best product for the cost
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use SoapUI Pro to cover automated, functional testing of our web services (SOAP/XML and REST/JSON primarily). It is used to the greatest extent in the QA department, but other client implementation teams also use some of it's basic functionality. Some of the key features we use are data source linking, Groovy scripting, and composite projects to facilitate our needs. It enables us to provide better coverage of expected results.
- Ease of use and setup, particularly with SOAP services where you have the WSDL. Import and go. If your WSDL changes you can update the definition or refactor it, which is a life saver.
- Decent GUI - I feel the GUI is well thought out in most areas.
- Scripting and Plugins - Allows setting of a script repository (Pro). In general, you can script in Groovy or JavaScript throughout a project. We use Groovy and haven't run into anything we haven't been able to find a solution to through scripting. For plugins, we've written some custom ones in Java to add menu items. To use them you just have to drop the jar file in a specific directory.
- Community - The community via blogs and forums is great. If you run into issues you can normally find someone else who had a similar problem. The response on the forums from SmartBear is also good. They also recently added an 'API Dojo' which is very informational.
- REST - They have come a long way, but there could still be improvements here. I find the learning curve much higher and not as straight forward using REST vs SOAP.
- Composite Projects - I'd really like to see them implement something around saving/refreshing Test Suites when using the Composite project ability in Pro. This is currently an enhancement in feature backlog (see their forum for more details). Functionality around Projects and Test Cases seems pretty sound.
- Less defects make it out of test environments
- Low Cost on Licensing
May 09, 2014
Automation with SoapUI
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
We use SoapUI in the QA test environment to automate some of our testing.
- Allows automated test cases. As with all automation the dark side is the development time involved but for products that require frequent testing that investment in time has paid long term dividends.
- Fully programmable using groovy. I did not know Groovy prior to using SoapUI but it's so similar to Java that the transition was seamless.
- I find it quite useful to parse the response from one call and use that as input to the next.
- The learning curve was difficult. I struggled to get it to do anything useful at first.
- I'd like to see more examples to get newbies started.
- Without a doubt, testing is improved. I can write a test once and forget the details and know I can return to it months down the road and still test some obscure feature.
SoapUI was the only automation tool I evaluated. Nothing else came close.
May 01, 2014
SoapUI - Developer's and Tester's Best Friend
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
SoapUI is being used for functional testing in our organization as well as other organization that I have worked with. Its been used by the development and testing team majorly. It's used for unit testing by the development team. It supports multiple protocols such as SOAP, REST, HTTP etc.. It helps in creating mock services and supports scripting which are really useful in creating automated unit testing. Its been used by the performance testing team to run the load testing which is one of the most important testing before the product goes live. Since web services are widely used by product these days SoapUI can be great tool to use these web services easily and efficiently. The tools can be used by almost all departments from development to operations support.
- SoapUI is really easy to use and has a very small learning curve. It doesn't really matter if you are a programmer or not you can pick up SoapUI quickly. The user interface is really very intuitive.
- Since it supports many protocols such as SOAP, REST, HTTP, JMS etc.. it greatly helps the developer to use a single tool and not jump around tools.
- SoapUI can help create really advanced Load test scenarios really quickly. It can also integrate with LoadUI which has superior Load Testing Experience.
- There are plugins available for IDE's such as Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ. So if people prefer using the SoapUI inside the IDE they can use it as well instead of opening another tool.
- It is capable of creating mock services for all kind of web services which is very important for testing.
- The only disadvantage I could think off right now is that its Plugins for IDE's don't work as well. But that shouldn't keep you from using it. You can always use the SoapUI tool instead of the plugins.
- Better test coverage.
- Helps operations support team to turn around the tickets quickly.
- Small learning curve.