SoapUI - Soapui Tutorial

SoapUI is an open-source web service testing application for service-oriented architectures (SOA) and representational state transfers (REST). Its functionality covers web service inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking, functional testing, load and compliance testing. A commercial version, SoapUI Pro, which mainly focuses on features designed to enhance productivity, was also developed by Eviware software. In 2011, SmartBear Software acquired Eviware.

SoapUI was initially released to SourceForge in September 2005. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the European Union Public License. Since the initial release, SoapUI has been downloaded more than 2,000,000 times. It is built entirely on the Java platform, and uses Swing for the user interface. This means that SoapUI is cross-platform. Today, SoapUI also supports IDEA, Eclipse, and NetBeans.

SoapUI can test SOAP and REST web services, JMS, AMF, as well as make any HTTP(S) and JDBC calls.

Features

SoapUI

Core features include:

• Web services inspection
• Web services invoking
• Web services development
• Web services simulation and mocking
• Web services functional, load, compliance and security testing

SoapUI Pro

SoapUI Pro is the commercial enterprise version. SoapUI Pro adds a number of productivity enhancements to the SoapUI core, which are designed to ease many recurring tasks when working with SoapUI.

Awards

SoapUI has been given a number of awards. These include:

• Jolt Awards 2014: The Best Testing Tools
• ATI Automation Honors, 2009
• InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Award, 2008
• SOAWorld Readers' Choice Award, 2007

SoapUI alternative tools

Though SoapUI is the best web service testing tool, there are few lighter and simpler applications than SoapUI. These include:

• Apache JMeter
• Postman
• Wizdler
• HttpMaster