# Parasoft SOAtest Reviews
**Vendor:** Parasoft  
**Category:** [Automation Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/automation-testing-tools)  
**Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 6
## About Parasoft SOAtest
Get Rapid Feedback From Your CI/CD Pipeline. This API, microservices, and web service testing tool incorporates extensive functional testing along with critical load, performance, and security testing early into Agile development. Gain immediate and intelligent feedback for smarter API testing and on-time releases. Anchored in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), Parasoft SOAtest simplifies the complexity of functional testing across APIs, UIs, databases, and more. Change management systems continuously monitor quality for Agile DevOps environments. Use a single, intuitive interface to meet all your test automation needs. Automate complex API functional, load, performance, and security testing scenarios for over 120 message formats and protocols, covering microservices to mainframe. Test confidently knowing that our change impact analysis continuously monitors APIs. It highlights changes and corresponding test cases for updates and streamlines test refactoring efforts. Test impact analysis identifies the tests that align with code changes to optimize validation and reduce execution time.




## Parasoft SOAtest Reviews
  ### 1. Excellent tool for API Load & Performance Testing

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jayapal C. | Lead QA Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2022

**What do you like best about Parasoft SOAtest?**

Have been using this tool for 2+ decades and it's very handy for configuring the load test scenarios in multiple ways. Also, love the reports which include server times and network times in addition to overall metrics.

**What do you dislike about Parasoft SOAtest?**

Sometimes the .tst files doesn't update in the load test component even after saving in SOA test.

**What problems is Parasoft SOAtest solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Support is awesome. When a ticket is opned, customer support team will respond pretty fast to resolve the issue.

  ### 2. Amazing product with amazing performance

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Emiel d. | Zelfstandige, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2022

**What do you like best about Parasoft SOAtest?**

We needed to send HL7 Soap XML messages with SAML signed by Smartcards, REST and FHIR request with JWT tokens and all with SSL certificate clients. Some data from responses we needed to save so we use a Postgresql DB and the built in Repository, works great! This all was easy to build, in the beginning, we got great Parasoft support to get on the rails!!

**What do you dislike about Parasoft SOAtest?**

The manual can be better, looks like it's written by experts and have the feeling they miss some information and steps

**Recommendations to others considering Parasoft SOAtest:**

Getting started with Parasoft needs some time and support, but then it works like a charm

**What problems is Parasoft SOAtest solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We do qualification of software products, so SOATest need to be very reliable

  ### 3. Parasoft SOATest tool is very good for testing API driven applications

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Krishna K. | Technical Support Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022

**What do you like best about Parasoft SOAtest?**

Parasoft SOATest is best API testing tool. Its one stop shop for testing needs. It automates API testing by providing advanced test creation capabilities. With its tedt api generator plugin for chrome, it monitors activity in yourweb UI for testing.

**What do you dislike about Parasoft SOAtest?**

From automation point of view, it should have better clarity. It can be made more user friendly than what it is now. Need to enhance performance of the browser testing.

**What problems is Parasoft SOAtest solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use it for API testing, tool is built-in such a way that anyone can start using it from there first day with little introduction. Automating API using its UI is easy and powerful comoared to other tools.

  ### 4. Best Webseries automation tool

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Axit P. | Quality Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022

**What do you like best about Parasoft SOAtest?**

Clear and easy to understand project structure including environments, databanks for parameterizations, traffic viewer, response assertors. Features like diff tool to compare response and extension tool to call Java methods.

**What do you dislike about Parasoft SOAtest?**

Difficult to setup and execute MQ based webseries. When working with extention tool with Java code, it's difficult to debug the error. Everytime need to go back to eclipse ide and fix issue.

**What problems is Parasoft SOAtest solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Problem of scheduled test suite execution solved by continuous testing platform (CTP) integrated with SOAtest parasoft. Managing the traffic details in a file and save it in project test results folder is very easy.

  ### 5. Parasoft SOAtest is awesome tool for testing

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kedar K. | Sr. Application Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2022

**What do you like best about Parasoft SOAtest?**

Parasoft SOATest is testing tool used to maximize quality, security, safety with easy to handle features. Even if you are new to tool, its very easy to understand and work upon.

**What do you dislike about Parasoft SOAtest?**

For automation perspective, tool should  become little bit more user friendly. They can add more UI level components. Also need option for agile environment in it.

**What problems is Parasoft SOAtest solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have worked on solving API performance testing, API security testing, browser based end to end testing. No coding is required, we can build stable library for test and reuse it when needed.

  ### 6. Review of Parasoft SOATest

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022

**What do you like best about Parasoft SOAtest?**

Intuitive interface, Multitude of features, Extremely useful data extraction and comparison functionalities, CI/CD ready with inbuild integrations, Headless/Remote server execution possibilities.

**What do you dislike about Parasoft SOAtest?**

Tooling requires a good understanding of various components like DTP, CTP, EM etc.  GUI testing capabilities are limited. The virtualize server administration can be improved.

**Recommendations to others considering Parasoft SOAtest:**

Extremely useful for API/Data engineering projects and implementations.

**What problems is Parasoft SOAtest solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Useful as a part of our monthly releases where API tests are automated and integrated with CI/CD. SOATest is also really helpful in validating microservices and any data related implementations. Our TTM to implement data related projects has significantly improved after we started leveraging all the features of SOATest.


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## Parasoft SOAtest Features
**Functionality**
- Integrations
- Extensibility
- Test Customization

**Functionality **
- Test Feedback
- Test History
- Customization
- Test Variety

**Agentic AI - Software Testing**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance

**API Construction**
- API Testing
- Data Security
- Orchestration
- Scalability

**Management**
- Automation
- Processes and Workflow
- Reporting

**Automation**
- Organization
- Reliability
- Thoroughness

**API Management**
- Logs/Documentation

**Agentic AI - Automation Testing**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance

**Agentic AI - Continuous Integration**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance

**Data Integration**
- App Integration
- Data Transformation
- Plugins

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