The ease and quickness for testing any web service/web method without having to write the whole program to consume it.

Sometimes it becomes difficult to narrow down the issue as the error displayed is not always very user friendly.

Overall, it is a nice tool to test web services, specially if you work with both SOAP e RESTful services and want to concentrate your tests in a single tool. However, some improvements should be made in the future.

It is one of the best tools available to test a web service, specially given the fact that it is capable of working with both SOAP and RESTful services. It has good support for various data standards.

The UI is a little dated and the setup to use REST applications could be a little better (faster) when compared to other competitors, such as Postman. The application also takes some time to fully load in some occasions.

It's a very complete tool to test SOAP endpoints and REST webservices, you can even create load test with a lot of parameters to simulate production environment concurrency

Sometimes the huge ammount of configuration parameters could be overwhelming, luckily there is tons of information on the web and forums to solve and question or problem

test web services

is a great software to test web services under the WSDL format, it is free, it is very powerful for what it does, it has various functions to test data coming from a web service

The program is very good, but for basic users it is very complicated to learn since it has many features and you must know how web services work, it would even be good if users perform a tutorial on the software, to discover its full potential

IfI was given a choice to hire only manual testers, I will do this. Otherwise, I won't

This can be used by testers/business analysts who do not know how to code. You can still use Jenkins to invoke tests using API

Pro feature is not really needed if you can code. But if you are willing to learn their UI, it works good for everybody.

It helps me when I need to find problems regarding webservices. It makes my day easier by organizing and showing me details about requests and responses, things that I could even do without SoapUI, but in a harder and tedious manner. I like and prefer to use SoapUI whenever I can because I like it!

I like the way it tears down a WebService and show you the components in it. You can see, from a given WSDL, the structure of data being passed and received, the methods and signatures for everything. You can simulate requests and check the responses. You can even use credentials to test a WebService's security. It is all that you need to work with SOAP, Rest, XML and many other types.

Not a really con, but... At first, the GUI scared me a little bit, and I was repeatedly creating projects to test a WebService. That was because I didn't realized that everytime you insert a WSDL from the menu, it creates a project, instead of replacing or adding to a selected one. So when I was going to close the program it asks if I want to save each and every project that was (accidentally) created by me. Maybe a single: "Discard all changes" option to close the program could solve it.

SoapUI has a good interface, I find it very comfortable and easy to use. supports multiple protocols such as SOA, HTTP and Rest, which are the most used when developing a web service

Not much logging options, logging can be improved

I have used this software for all interface testing and testing the API's and I can say that this is undoubtly best software for testing API's.

SoapUI is one of the best software for evaluation of the API's for your systems and the connectivity with the external systems. Using this software you can test the XML requests through the API and note the response received from the external systems. Using this software you can test the WSDL's of your system to check the secure connectivity and secure transfer of records from your system to external system.

Sometimes it became tricky to configure the software to match the configuration from your systems so it became bit difficult to use the application.

we are using SOAP for testing all web services before deploying on production systems.

Drag and drop functionality saved lot of my time, I don't need to write code manually repetitively.

some time faced HTTP connectivity errors.

Simple and easy to use. In a couple of minutes you can start testing your web services.

Documentation should be better, despite being a simple tool to use.

Currently I'm using 'SoapUI' to fulfill my daily API testing. It's very helpful and very powerful tool. Normally I'm executing around 300+ API calls for a day by using this application.

01. Very attractive user interface and easy to use.

01. SoapUI Open Source - Security and performance testing functionalities should improve. Other than that there is no any considerable cons.

Ease of use, many configurations and options to consume web services both in messaging and in security options

It consumes a lot of resources, sometimes it stops responding due to excessive memory consumption, it would be better if it were a less heavy application

When i started learning the tool , in beginning i faced difficult in understanding the tool and its features as the UI is bit complex to understand and make it user friendly in few sessions.

The tool is good and very helpful if you want to perform end to end API testing of your application.

when you are new to SOAPUI its been difficult to understand the tool in one go .it takes some time to understand and make the tool user friendly.

Web services are always good for performing the task in a short period of time avoiding the UI.

In SOAPUi complex web services can be integrated to test the multiple web-services, the outstanding part of the REST API's the input can be included in the URL by which can avoid adding data into the body of the Web-services.

if any of the web-services is fails during the execution user need to go through each web service to validate the failure reason.

learn to call services and what data from the client's Backend brings in a project

the function you have to use the .wsdl file formats to create Mock Services and call Backend from a client

I do not have any comments for this section since I do not see a problem with SoapUI since it is easy to use

What I like most about this software is the way to simulate a web services using the mocks. It is also very simple to use and very simple to understand for us programmers

the graphical interface is not intuitive, I think it is made with javaUI which sometimes complicates things. Also, the configuration of the proxies is a bit more complicated than it should

Easy to set up and test SOAP and REST web services

none regarding functionality. User interface is a bit outdated.

This software has been a big help in developing and testing SOAP statements for our platform. It has been feature filled enough to do everything we want while also being forgiving to someone like me who didn't come in as a professional.

This software is good for professionals with SOAP statements as well as forgiving for persons not familiar with them. The panes to view the statements and the results that return are very clear and easy to understand.

Even though it is beginner friendly, it can appear a bit overwhelming to users who may encounter the software for the first time.

Ability to achieve many things using the soap UI service l, all we need is to configure XML we are good and in addition to that we can manage n number data

Should need a good knowledge about DB and XML to use it effectively

It helps to complete my day to day testing tasks with more efficiently. It saves my time.

01 . Any type of users (Beginners or Experts for API testing) can easily adopt to the user-interface and testing process by using "soap-UI" for couple of hours. And now i'm expert at this software.

01. Some times it's little bit slow when you work with large test cases.

It works well whether you are working from a wsdl or a swagger doc the ease of setting up tests works great.

Not a whole lot maybe other than the fact that it probably will have more than what you need or will use. But what you do use will likely make you very happy.

SoapUI has been a great tool to test our REST APIs. Without it, we would have been not be able to test our APIs so easily. So it has greatly simplified our testing.

The UI is pretty easy to use. You can do all REST related tasks easily with this software. The best part is it is free.

no data generator in the free version. Also no multi environment support for the free version.

Exposes operations which represent logic

Soup UI Some time it is little bit slow when user use large test cases

Overall, this is the best SOAP client I have used to test SOAP service that can be learned easily.

1) Best client to test XML based SOAP service as any SOAP service endpoint URL can be tested easily with least configuration.

1) Extra configurations needed to configure attachment in SOAP request.

Simplicity to call a web service with the wsdl address

The UI could be cleaner

Great tool that has helped us over the years in (stress) testing new and old webservices in a quick and timely fashion.

Ótima interface

If you are not careful and don't pay attention when closing out the program, it is easy to loose some session settings

I use on daily basis as an integrator to test web services.

Easy setup by entering WSDL and you are ready to start testing.

In case of bad request called sometimes error message in response is not that helpful.

I was new to the coding world, i had spent all my years in testing and that too manual, when i used SoapUI for the first time i thought it would be difficult to understand and those groovy scripting might take all my time. But luckily the test cases creation, and scripting was so easy and good that any lay man can understand that easily and can automate things faster.

Need to check the licence version which may cost you a little. Free version does not provide all features

While UI is not obvious and to start using basic functions it requires some training, training materials are available right at their site.

In order to collaborate on single projects you need to purchase Pro verion for the whole team that is pretty expensive. Also it takes considerable piece of your system resources: worked really slow when a few DOcker containers were spin up at the same host.

In general, SoapUI is my preferred tool to use as a client since it supports Soap and REST. It is simple to download and free to use. I work with it on Linux as well as Windows. The fact that it uses both and is simple to use is a winner in my perspective.

SoapUI is a piece of handy software to send soap and rest messages to backends. It allows you to import a WSDL and it builds the soap message (envelope, header and body) from there. It also supports REST invocations so if you also want to send REST that is possible too. The version i am using is the free version of the software, it has limited capabilities compared to the pro version but for training purposes it is more than enough. Even for simple development you have a tool that will work.

I find that with two screens (one 4K and one FULL HD) the window tends to show in 4K resolution even when the screen is not on 4K. That is about the annoying thing about the product. I use the software in a limited way, so I have not looked at the feature like testing and so on. It might be that in order to use them, a paid license might be needed. The testing elements do quickly need a license although basic scenarios are supported.

We are using it to test our product web services. Easy to use. Saves lot of time

We use SoapUI for webservice testing. We send request XML payload to server and get a response back from it, for this we need to provide the WSDL url. With Soap UI we can test the performance and security of API . We can do security testing,load testing, Functional testing , SQL injection and many other features.

Therr is nothing i dislike with Soap UI.

It is open source we just need to Provide WSDL and all the data is being over there in the SoapUI and we can easily test Web services

It require some training to use as it has some Confusing interface When testing with large test Cases , it becomes a little bit Slow than Usual

1. Provides support for REST and SOAP Testing.

1. Its a very heavy client and slows down the system.

I like it because it fulfill all my needs to best

Wsdl import, writing xmls, split screen for request and response, speed , response and output windows

I think the project wizard is not so cool, there can be a easy and better way to manage projects, i dont like project explorer tab on left

I have been using this product from past 4 years and I created scripts whcih runs automatically on daily basis for doing a sanity checks for server and testing of automated service calls made easy to manage our application servers.

cannot find anything to comment on bad about it.

The best tool for automated tests for web services

Some features are paidedSome features are paid. Before we purchase the product we must have a free trial with all the features to see if they will fit with our project.

I really like to create an API Test with Soap UI. I used this tool in every Company and I set Soap UI as the technology stack that is to use in the companies.

It is very easy to set up an start with API Test. You don't have to huge know-how about this tool to start your first test and this is great. Also, you have an extra view and features in the licenced pro version which is useful for data-driven tests and Tests over the ci/cd pipeline.

You don't have the outline view in the free version, this is a big con for me. Because this makes the free version for people with more experience instead of people with less. It is okay to put more function in the pro version but this view thing is good to start with Soap UI.

Debugging a web platform and verifying endpoints services. Automating testing of a web platform using the custom scripts.

It is simple to use, providing a WSDL it gives you all the available services and sample payloads.

It may randomly crash when running a service.

My overall experience with SoapUI is exceptionally good. I'm totally satisfied with how my test cases work out and give detailed reports.

It has a very informative and friendly user interface. Appropriate for beginners as well as experts to test different cases which involves calling various APIs. Helpful for both performance as well as functional testing.

All the features of SOAP UI are not free which restricts me to explore further possibilities of testing with it.

It provide very simple method to test web services and API. We just enter API and web service url In WSDL to access all the methods. It test soap xml request. It support load testing.

It take more time sometimes when we start soap.

I am using this software from pdt 2 years. It is very useful in term of testing. You can create, modify the data with the help of xmls. Sometime lengthy xmls can slow down the speed.

SoapUI is best open source in terms of testing. Easily user can create and modify the data. Files can be store in it so that next time we can access the same files. UI is very good and easy to use.

Sometimes it took too much time to load the heavy data file and also crashes sometime. Because of which all the data can be lost. For beginners it is not very much user friendly.

It is robust, with advanced features and easy to use.

the application has few resources to work with REST

We can call REST as well as SOAP web services from SoapUI. We can load Web Service Definition Language (WSDLs), set headers, authentication, etc as required and trigger internal as well as external web services.

It makes the system very slow. Takes time to load at first.

I am pretty happy with SOAP UI tool. I am an integration engineer and this tool makes my life easier.

It makes both Developers and Tester life easier with Webservice(SOAP and REST) Automation.

We can have some report generation on the test suit results.

I am using it from last 8 years for the corresponding implementations. We mostly simulate the remote server requests with the help of this tool.

Very good tool for simulating the xml requests from different servers. Allows for simple classification of xml requests.

I am still evaluating it. It always resolved my puposes so never identified any such thing.

Overall I recommend SOAP UI to just about everyone when in the context of this type of testing. Seven out of ten times the other person is already aware of the software or has used it in the past. It is truly one of the better-made software, and even though I know a great deal of how to use its features, I know that there is still a lot I don't even know about packed away within the menus.

Once you understand how to execute a Soap service through the user-friendly UI, it is perfect for running through an extensive suite of tests and validations. With on-the-fly edits that you can make in-between cases, you can ensure that you're meeting full coverage results.

Sometimes when importing a WSDL, you may only need to pass a request which includes ONLY required fields. I wish SOAP UI would allow you to make a sample request which only consists of the required fields and leaves the optional fields out of the sample. This would make things faster when I need to work through a heavy workload, but it's still not a huge downside, just one of those nice to have features.

My overall experience using this software is very good as I am highly satisfied with the features that this tool provides while testing any backend application. We can deploy the application in the form of WAR(Web Application archive) format which is mainly used for easy importing of files in tools like JavaEE, JavaSE. We can view the response files in HTML, XML, JSON formats. We can import tools from other softwares like JAX-B, JBoss, Oracle, Apache and implement that working architecture in SoapUI. While testing any backend software, we can define our own properties that the request should contaim while testing. We can customise our own User interface. We can import WSDL, WADL, Swagger. We can create our own workspace to personalise our own test cases and our own projects.

1) We can send other file attachments along with URL we are sending

I haven't found any flaws as the working of this tool is smooth and fast.

We have integrated the SoapUI with our project to achieve continuous delivery of the project. The security test feature is really helpful in checking the SQL injection and malicious code attachment with just few clicks. SoapUI is helping us to deploy the code to cloud with help of containers, as all this possible because of the robust integration of SoapUI with the other third part tools like Bamboo.

SoapUI is a swiss army knife for automation testing with user friendly user interface as it provides the wide range of testing features in a single pack. API functional testing allows us to add the test form which also scrutinize the third party API for vulnerability. While creating the test form we can also add and integrate it with the mock data to check the result for bulk raw or real data. Groovy code templates allow us to add the macros. The real time statistics show the detail view for running test. SoapUI by SMARTBEAR support is really impressive as you can get the help from experts when we are stuck some area in it.

MockResponse module should be more enhanced and simplified. Script libraries should be also in Open-Source version. Fuzzing Scan module for testing vulnerability is complex as a beginner. Learning curves are sharp but the proper documentation by SoapUI is covering it.

Soap ui has the options to save,export the rest api and import.It is helpful to loadtest the api's for performance.

Easy navigation and support the load testing of the API's.

Good tool to test the SOAP services. Helps to quickly test the SOAP during development. It has some support for automated testing using XQuery validations, but can't be used to automate complex scenarios. Still saves a lot of time during unit testing/development of Soap services without spending time in build in proxy clients.

Automatic Request template generation from WSDL

Limited support for RESTful services. Limited Automation capabilities

When we develop any webservices it can be easily tested on soapui rather than actually testing it on ui. It makes the complex task easier and reduces the time for testing the services and find errors if any. It also helps in resolving the errors by pinpointing to the issue. We will keep using SoapUI for our service related tests.

Be it soap or rest services it makes only the messages we need visible to us. The UI is very informative for our calls. We just put our address url and we get access to all our methods. We can define our own test cases and generate files for the response we got. We can add many end points for our service calls. The webservices are easy to debug for any error with soapui. Pfx certificates can be added to services which help us with our authentication needs.

It has a complex UI for finding all features but it might be necessary to include everything. We sometimes have difficulty to find particular feature and have to go through menus to search for it.

Within my experience in application servers, I have to be testing the published services. For this test activity I use the SOAUI tool.

Very useful tool to test the availability and functionality of the published services. It allows to store the tests of the services, reason why it is very functional for future tests or monitoring of the services.

Requires prior knowledge of the product to be able to take advantage of the tool in its entirety.

I have a very good experience of using SOAP UI. As being a tester it is very much required. I have been using it since a long time for almost 4-5 years. It is very user friendly application to test API’s.

It is one of the best API testing tool, comprising all the features including proxy settings and adding multiple WSDLs and creating projects under it. It is a open source tool which adds the biggest quality to use it.

There’s not anything bad in this tool. Instead one can test API in a very easy and convenient way.

This software is widely used by many organizations and this tool is must to have tool for develpers developing and testers for interfaces.

SmartBear is a desktop based application for API testing. With the help of this tool, my organization ensure the quality and Performance of web-based applications.

1. There is no option for test scheduling.

Good for webservices and easily tranfer data in the form of xml so overall its better technique.

It is easy to use. Good for webservices testing. We can just put wsdl and connect with server. We can use different functions in this to use for different purposes. We can use this for security purpose also like we want to insert or delete data through XML.

When we load big XML and perform an action then it does not responds properly. Output interface is not more informative when we get any error.

It's a great tool and we are using it regularly to test webservices and API's.

It's a best tool to test webservices and API's and best point is it's open source and feely available. Most of the organizations are using this tool to test their webservices and API's .

Sometimes page gets slow in responding. This thing need to improve and error messages are not proper some times. Also hangs up sometime for large xmls.

It helped me to achieve my project testing goals in time. No need to test API's one by one anymore. I have wrote test cases for all of my API's. I'm so satisfied with this tool. I just need a one click to execute my test cases.

This is my favorite web service testing tool (Rest and Soap Web Service). Beautiful and user friendly UI. I can execute test cases as batches. Reporting functions are also good. It's compatible with 'Groovy' language. Data parametrization is also very helpful when testing API's. It comes with major nun-functional testing types such as load testing, performance testing, stress testing, security testing.

It's better if they can improve reporting functionalities in 'Soap UI' open-source edition. Nothing else. It's perfect.!

Good and fast tool for testing webServices, and ececuting test cases.

Very easy to configure the webServices both Soap and Rest, and also for testing Mock services.

Debugging is not very intutive, as this use groovy script, which is sparely known.

SoapUI is a good Interface software used to send data from one third party software from another. Data can be send in XML form. It is having good GUI that makes easy to understand errors.

Linking needs to be made pretty carefully so as to configure the software with SoapUI that makes bit difficult to user.

Encryption is the best parrot this software as user can encrypt the xml come easily and hit the server.

Need to be more user friendly as intellisense will prove useful if handling huge amount of XMLs

I found it very useful for testing the product I have been working on. I could get my team to work simultaneously on same module dividing the client and server side implementation between them. Though it's bit tough to find out where and how to add certificates, but we could do that and that way can test the security of the software we are implementing.

1. Writting the xml requests and editing them is very easy.

1. Configuration/Settings are not very user friendly.

It helps me to test WebServices and saves lot of my time. It is very wonderful tool.

It is very effective tool to test WebServices. It is very easy to use and provide GUI interface to test WebServices. Testers or developers need not to write testing scripts to test WebServices. Users just need to load WSDL address, and get all the methods it has posted, submit variables and get a result. It saves lot of testing time. It can test both REST and SOAP API services. It provides output in XML format. Smartbear team is always available for training or other help.

UI of the tool should be improved and error display should be more descriptive for easy resolution.

Best tool in my opinion to simulate web services. I use it as an external source to run my XMLs while testing.

Best application for web service testing. It is an open source tool. I use it to integrate data from an external source (in the form of an XML) with my system data. It is quite simple. Just copy the WSDL and put it onto the SOAP UI while creating a new project.

Does not provide all the features as compared to the Pro version. Sometimes it hangs the system when the size of XML is large which becomes annoying for me as a tester.

its a great freeware tool and we are using it regularly to Get the response in XML format that can be used further for simulation testng

it is a great tool that i have been using from the last 2+ years to test the Webservices with a simple UI.

it does not provide proper error message , exception that is thrown while testing the WSDL

Easy to learn and start working, very intuitive, you can group service in projects and create mock services for testing purposes.

the user insterface is a bit outdated, the sharing of projects could be improved to be account based.

It has very user friendly User Interface.

Load testing and worklow testing is difficult one.

Its a good software to import data. We can validate our xml that it has correct start and end tags. Ease of use. Just need to add the wsdl link and we can import our data.

It has problem like if we validate xml then does not tell us where the issue is, where we are missing any tag. Very less information provided by the software if some issue or error occur.

I help validate the payloads of the services to verify functionality, the response that returns, in order to obtain the expected results and then consume it in my application.

- Ease of generating a project, just by indicating the wsdl of the service.

The learning curve to use the application is average, so a basic user would have a hard time learning how to use it.

It's a great tool to build up a library of web service tests. Supports CI/Jenkins so builds confidence in software with a suite of tests running on a per build basis.

No out of box support for ALM integration. Required usage of a 3rd party tool to get test results into ALM.

It is an excellent tool for the development and testing of web services, whether by WSDL, RestFull or Graphql. Vital I would say it, it allows to import, export projects, create dummies, simulate endpoint, validate wsdl, very friendly to debug. Simply great, the best in the market ... Free ...

Maybe I would only refer to the screen management and the UX in general, it could be a little more comfortable, it's explicit and easy to use, but things like screen resize minimization, colors and those things, I think you can launch some improvements

- It is very powerful for a free tool with open code.

- I really can't think of anything I dislike about this tool. It does exactly what it needs to without having a cost.

The testing has been made really easy and quality have been improved manifold. The code coverage has also been increased thus improving overall customer satisfaction.

The SoapUI tool is the best out there when you need to test a Webservice with ease. The usability and ease of setup make this the best tool out there. It has all the best feature which are practically needed on the ground. One of the major add-on features is it's LoadTest wherein you can easily create a LoadTest from existing test and get an idea of the service performance

Yes, the UI can be made much better to make it more useful and the load time and start-up time can be reduced manifold because its very heavy and take a lot of time to start-up and makes the system slow.

The best part of the tool is its GUI which helps us to test the SOAP and the best point is its open source and freely available. Its functional testing as a part includes the drag and drop and performing complex scenarios. We can also perform security testing load testing at a single glance.We can maintain our tests with a few clicks. Its been used by various enterprise business services companies and are making their business work flow simplier

There is nothing least about this but this need to be upgraded and come up with few bug fixes sometimes the page gets slow in responding this need to brought and overcome in next editions and versions

Tested many web services using this tool and get xml compenent info to build more accurate web service.

It is very easy to use. We can make xml request through tool and get response from web service. Easy to pass required paramater in request XML. It also help to integrater to test the web service.

Passing credentials are difficult and some time we do not know the actual reason of bad response. It takes time to load the request xml.

It's free and let me do my job, I can save my projects, No objections at all

It's easy to use, you can find good documentation on its webpage, it's free, you can run soap, text, ans rest services.

I don't have anything bad to say about it, It my everyday tool in my actual job , I've found other ones like postman or google rest, but I always return to SoapUi