--- title: SOAPUI Reviews meta_title: 'SOAPUI Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 143 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SOAPUI works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 143 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: DevOps url: https://www.g2.com/categories/devops --- # SOAPUI Reviews **Vendor:** SmartBear **Category:** [Automation Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/automation-testing-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 143 ## About SOAPUI SoapUI is the world's most trusted open source API testing tool ## SOAPUI Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **simple UI and strong community support** of SOAPUI, enhancing their API testing experience. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **quick help from customer support** , enhancing their experience with API testing in SoapUI. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of SOAPUI, finding it simple to learn and effective for API testing. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **variety of testing capabilities** in SOAPUI, making it ideal for both API and load testing. (1 reviews) - Users find the **ease of learning** with SOAPUI enhances their API testing experience thanks to strong community support. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **robust functionality** of SOAPUI, particularly for comprehensive API and load testing capabilities. (1 reviews) - Helpful (1 reviews) - Load Testing (1 reviews) - Testing (1 reviews) - Time-saving (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complex UI** challenging, making project setup and feature navigation slow and cumbersome. (1 reviews) - Users find SOAPUI's **difficult navigation** frustrating due to its complex UI and slow project setup. (1 reviews) - Users find the **difficult setup** process frustrating, compounded by a complex UI and expensive collaboration options. (1 reviews) - Users find the **costly pro version** necessary for team collaboration, making it less accessible for all users. (1 reviews) - Users feel that improved **functionality issues** undermine SOAPUI's competitiveness compared to more user-friendly tools like Postman. (1 reviews) - Limited Automation (1 reviews) - Users find **setup difficulties** due to the slow project initiation and complex UI navigation, impacting their workflow. (1 reviews) - Slow Performance (1 reviews) ## SOAPUI Reviews ### 1. Powerful API Tester (Load + Unit) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Load testing is very powerful and easy to setup to test API(s) **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Project collections could be sync with an account. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I perform Load testing for APIs, ### 2. SOAP UI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2020 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Simple and Easy to use tool for testing specially SOAP based services **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** company should have unified platform to do both REST and SOAP and include performance testing as well Like POSTMAN /READY API **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** use the paid version of SOAP UI as that have most of the functionality . Trail version might not be able to solve all your business use cases. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing functional testing for SOAP based services ### 3. Good for evaluation of we services in a faster way **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2021 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SOAPUI is useful for automation for functional and performance testing **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Could be designed for multiple protocols **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** App server and middleware services ### 4. One of the best in the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal K. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Web service test with ease and in a better organized way.Ideal for different calls as Get,Put or Post.Very effective in testing of rest calls with data power association.Ideal for authentication testing and troubleshooting API's.Variety of test cases as well as test scenarios can be configured with ease.Multi type media acceptance to send in requests including JSON as well as XML **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Didnt work that well for complex or large XMLs.In case of multiple queries it should be displayed as Tab ,currently it overlaps the previous queries.Starting up with heavy load can take quite long sometime.Sometime inpit didnt get updated unless you restart the app ,mostly in case of header manipulation. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Perfect tool for setting both simple as well as comolex test scenarios .If one is looking for a simply understandable tool and effucient as well,SOAP UI is the one.Easy setup is an add on .Security tests can be done in wide scenarios such as xml injection,buffer overflow etc. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of REST as well as SOAP requests alomg with basic unit testing regarding security and performance.load testing as well as parameterized tests are used widely.Multiple test suites executuon in parallel as well. ### 5. Best software for web services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek B. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Rapid import of web services and directly detecting the web-services and creates structure to work on it. Advance search and replace functions in the inbuilt editor. Its enriched with several features like cross site scripting etc. SOAP is pretty much secure and structured. Easy to debug if there are any errors as it captures all the errors in log. The beginners as well as experts can easily easily adopt the cool UI and testing process provided by SoapUI. We can receive and send multiple API calls and responses from a single test suite only. Easy to define custom properties when testing an application. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** We should be able to make a sample request with only required fields and omitting of optional fields should be allowed. Sometime it doesn't create headers automatically while importing the WSDL. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been using the soapUI for testing the soap services that I create for my company and importing the WSDL is so easy. Also the it generates the sample xml request by itself. ### 6. Best in the business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pritha G. | Assistant System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Simple interface is very helpful in rapid import of web services.readablity of .asmx file and its structure creation is very impressive.regression testing is quite simplified.Unit testing of services pr security testing ia very simplified. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** HTTP monitoring is missing,Running parallel suits with involvement of JMS session is not getting done.While executing large XML input, application get stuck sometime. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Always a good choice for developers for unit testing and quite effective for load testing as well.Basic UI is convenient for new users also.Authentication and security testing can be easily configured which prove to be a problem solver. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Autimate testing with some scripting,test suites generation,Advanced load test scenarios as well as Security testing which includes header configuration. ### 7. A short Tour of SoapUI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SoapUI is one of the tool or software which gives us all the features to test WSDL. It keeps our project in stuctured and in well organised manner. It helps us to test wsdlbof different different environments. It shows us an error if there are any in our wsdl and if not time taken to execute it. It test all our xml irrespective of their sizes. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Till date i haven't find any issues in whatever task I have done just while consuming fee wsdls we need to create header externally which I found its a bug. It will be good if it allow us to consume rest services as well. Rest all good **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** A best tool in market to test your soap services first **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm working in bpm domain and in IID so I need to test services by consuming wsdl, to check whether my services are working properly or not. I consume wsdl to rehit my business process externally ### 8. SoapUI helps with service testing and improves delivery time. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chandrasekaran S. | Senior consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2020 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SoapUI helps me to test the web services and rest services without essentially writing any code in java or c#. Also I can easily create a mock service once I have the WSDL. This is helpful for testing or development until the actual service is ready. It helps to speed up the whole development & release cycle. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I don't dislike anything about SoapUI actually. Quite helpful tool. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** An app to create mock service as well as to test web/rest services and Soap UI helpe us. Improvement in delivery is seen. ### 9. SoapUI one of the best tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajat P. | Mechanical Engineering Graduate Trainee @Thermal Power Plant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Full Support for SOAP Services Testing. It will help you to create envelopes and headers to satisfy WS-Security, WS-Addressing etc. The wide range of assertion options. If you are still not satisfied, you can write your own assertion with the help of Groovy script and can use any Java library to do so. The Maven Support. You can simply export a TestSuite from SOAP UI and run it from outside on your CI/CD tool (i.e. Jenkins, Gitlab etc) with the help of Maven. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It should add more GUI option which can show syntax error while adding new request XML. Adding credentials is a little bit confusing as it does not show any hit. It should allow sending the null value in request XML tags. It should add auto-trigger request functionality. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is used to create different types of web services and test those services. It helps to integrate test web services and verify that there is no bug in the newly developed web service. This tool is also used to get the XML response and store it into the system. ### 10. Best SoapUI application ever **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit K. | Software Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Organization of different endpoints and environments. Easiness of use. Quickly debug issues with endpoints. Great collaboration features, especially the scripts repository available in the paid version. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Documentation should be better, despite being a simple tool to use. Sometimes the huge amount of configuration parameters could be overwhelming, luckily there is tons of information on the web and forums to solve any question or problem. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ### 11. A Quality API testing calling tool which is free!! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh C. | Assistant System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2020 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** API calling is very easy as the creation of a new project is very simple and absolutely hassle-free. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Response time is very high and sometimes throw error just for more time consumed. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Direct API calls where our own software fails to communicate through the web. ### 12. Best tool to test SOAP and Rest servicee **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darshan P. | consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** 1)it is very easy and handy to import WSDL 2)easily we can import REST services also 3)if there is any error while loading wsdl it shows proper error message 4)use of proxy is very good feature provided by soapui. 5)many artifacts are available like JBoss,Xfire etc. 6)latest version gives the feasibility of load testing **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** 1)old version previously did not show proper error message.but in new version it is improved **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** I strongly recommend this tool as it is very handy and easy to use **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Validation and testing of Wsdl and rest service is very much easy. ### 13. SOAP UI review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramakrishna R. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** We can easily import and test all the WSDL files. Very useful tool for testing REST services. Useful to test SOAP services as well. Authentication and proxy also works in this. Gsoap artifacts available. Shows proper error messages if any in WSDL **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** No much nagative. Load testing available in only latest version **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Use this for testing REST and SOAP WSDL s. Very easy to use and gives you good experience **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I could easily identify error in WSDL shared by colleagues. Testing of REST and SOAP services before integration. ### 14. Soap UI experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Senior Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Real world condition testing and Data driven testing capablities save a lot more time. Regression testing is simplified.Rapid import of web services and directly detecting the .asmx and creates structure to work on it. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Its quite difficult to add certificate file with request as no particular error related to certificate is returned. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Very useful for debugging communication issues.for building an automation and testing framework internally but with limited time and resources,SOAP ui is highly recommended **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Parameteeized web services requests,reaponse assertions.Regression testing is efficient,compatiblity with advanced load test scenarios ### 15. Best WSDL testing tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramakrishna V. | Team Lead & Senior consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Soap UI can be used to test SOAP services. It can be used to test REST services. WSDL importing very easy. Loading testing can also be done with latest version. Proxy option available while testing services. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I don't think there is some nagative things. Loading testing introduced only in latest version. Sometimes error response won't available in response window. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Good tool for testing web services and load testing **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I could easily test the REST and SOAP web services Used for load testing. ### 16. Soap Ui the Best automaticated testing tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** It's one among the leading testing tool for web services like soap or REST. It has easy to use graphical interface. Best thing about soap ui is, drag and drop test creations. This will improve your test quality. Soap ui will analysis how well your sevices cover test cases. It has huge number of advance scripting. One among features of soap UI is bombing XMl, this will help you determine whether your system is vulnerable or not. This will also help you to monitor your server, like cpu or memory usage etc. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Identify the issue is quite difficult. Also if there are any special characters in request it throughs error. Sometimes response may be slow. Work flow testing is not easy. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Best automated tool to work with soap services. And it also helps you from all security perceptions **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** This helped me testing my own services which I share it will other integrated teams. Helped me in monitoring my server for resources utilization. Helped me from sql injection too. ### 17. Soap UI-Great tool for API Testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** It is easy to install and use for API testing like soap/rest. If we hit any service request in result it will show request and response in understandable manner. We can create test suites for testing In case if we want to consume any soap service we directly can add just WSDL which will form your request structure. We can change parameters of service in their request. Help to do functional as well as load testing. Also it helps in recording test cases. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Should automatically save projects if I ended it's task. Improvement in UI. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** For better performance and web service testing I would recommend this testing API tool,which will do web testing as well as functional and load tetsing as well. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We developed one project in our company which is having too many services which we need to test by giving number of parameters and that is so difficult on the platform we are working so we started using soap UI for web services testing. Not only in web services testing it gives good performance on load as well as functional testing. ### 18. SOAPUI for Api Testing! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priya G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Soap UI is used for Web services Testing and it is an open source tool and also can also be done load testing and security testing . It is free of cost. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** The only thing which i dislike in this tool is Graphical User Interface and All features are not available here and they are available only on Soap UI pro. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** This is the best tool for webservices testing which is available for the open source and it has lot of features. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this for Webservices Testing for soap and rest calls , load testing and security testing . ### 19. Soap UI review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prajwal K. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Test the request code whether it works properly or not. And gives quick response. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It not support all the language to test the request xml and sometimes it takes to long to respond. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Easy to use for software test for coding purpose and get the error if any **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly validate the code and check the response output. ### 20. SoapUI review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SOAPUI is best usefull for functional testing and load testing of web applications, services and webservices. SoapUI can invoke the New WSDl and generate a webservice. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** There is no dislike to me. Because I use based on my requirement and I learn based on my requirement. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** SoapUI is the best tool to invoke, develop, testing, integrating with other systems and validating entire webservice with in a tool. SoapUI will have many features and there will be new release with good features for every quarter in an year. For every one I can say that we can go with SoapUI. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many problems like integrating response from other teams like other applications and using soapui we can validate entire webservice and we can check is there any validation issue in webservice. ### 21. Brillant Tool for REST and SOAP Web Services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirthi S. | Functional Tester, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** With the pleasant of SOAPUI, end-user can create REST and SOAP Projects, end-user can perform the load testing to check the performance of software's/application's load testing. we can store/save the test cases for which are frequently used for another application's/software's. User can store the Keystore which user has created. Web Services are easy to debug to identify the error. You can add huge end-points to call your web services. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It has vastly complex UI and hard to understand to a new user and required a lot of training to understand the SOAPUI. it takes more time to start-up the application and makes system slow-down. Configuration should be more simplified and convenient to use it. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** It is the best tool for API testing and we can perform Load/Stress/Performance/Security Testing. you must attempt it. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can perform Load Testing, Stress Testing, Security Testing, and Performance Testing. Complex Web Services can be very easily handled with the help of SOAPUI and avoid the UI of the Application/Software. Easy to utilize the external data sheets to recover data to the user's executions. ### 22. SoaUI is a standalone product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jineesh J. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SoapUI is a open source. It is very powerful tool for web services testing eg- SOAP & REST. It's have multiple features as well. Hence it's a cross platform and support IntelliJ, Eclipse and netbeans ide's. It is useful tool in providing functional testing services. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Delay in response from SoapUI customer support. It's not easy to have assertion on JSON response. Sometimes it gives issues if your request contains special characters **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** If you are working on SOAP or REST service SoapUI is the best tool for that **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used for web services inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking, functional testing etc ### 23. Soap UI review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prajwal K. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** I use soap UI for load testing and also for integrated testing of services.and by it's response we get to know whether our request is working or not. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It does not supports multiple languages to test the request and response of any webservice. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Easy service testing tool with so many options like load testing, integrated testing etc. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** With SOAPUI we can quickly hit any service and we also get it's response.And also for load and Integrated testing. ### 24. Superb API testing Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ranjitha V. | Ranjitha, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The beginners as well as experts can easily easily adopt the cool UI and testing process provided by SoapUI. We can receive and send multiple API calls and responses from a single test suite only. Easy to define custom properties when testing an application. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** We should be able to make a sample request with only required fields and omitting of optional fields should be allowed. Bit of a complex UI. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Life of Developers and testers is made easier. Overall it is a good tool for web service testing. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Parameter values can be customized by defining variables and no need to hard code the values in test cases. We can use external data sheets to retrieve the data required for testing. ### 25. Best for Soap and Rest Web services **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Functional Test Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** using Soap UI we can handle the complex web services to test the multiple web services, the good part of the Rest API's is the input can be included in the URL by which user can avoid adding the data into the body of the web services. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** In Soap UI if any web services fail during the suite execution to go through each web service to validate the failure reason. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** it is best for API Testing. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** In Soap UI Web services are always good for performing the task in a short period of the time avoiding the UI. ### 26. SoapUI application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viral D. | Test Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Easy way to test the request for any application & simply we get its response wheather it works properly or not **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** For many request it takes more time than usual n sometimes i not give response also **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Very easy and convenient way to use **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have hit the application or request directly into DB from soapUI which is easy to work ### 27. Soap ui for soap api request **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal T. | Test Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Although a bit confusing, soap ui application is best for reviewing and testing soap requests **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Very difficult to understand, and with popularity of rest api increasing, has to be more user friendly to keep up **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing of the API. With soap ui, it is very easy to integrate and raise api request connecting as well as testing different applications ### 28. Soap Ui: Excellent performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasanna G. | Senior Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Soap Ui’s bet thing is performance without even knowing the front end structure testing is done through a webservice which will be integrated to front end UI, adding as many as test cases to a test suite and execution of each test case **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It’s difficult to understand the complete use cases of a webservice as it will be in xml format and the test combinations has to be in xml bodies and we will not be sure about outcome when you hit the webservice **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Skipping the front end part and test the middle layer of applications through xmls, testing all the types like security and load, functionality testing ### 29. Soap ui -keep it simple **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** What I like about soap ui is that it is the best open source tool around that is used for web service testing application for SOA and another advantage is that it supports different ides that is going around. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I think that it has complicated ui structure which can be organised in little efficient manner. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it for testing web service developed on SOA.I also use soap ui to delete the claims data through the custom service which is present on soap ui . ### 30. Soap UI -User friendly software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Soap UI can be used a testing software to test services. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Work flow testing and load testing is not a easy task. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Soap UI can be used to test external services efficiently. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many external services can be tested very easily. ### 31. Web services testing through soap Ui **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The sinple User interface of saop, starting the task from project creation under which with a project name and wsdl path all the web services under it are loaded snd each can be invoked with different set of test data and test parameters, with end point url the response can be checked , it has nice output section at the right to show the results of services invoked, data output can be changed from xml to different styles like text and json **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Soap and simple and effective tool for web services execution it perfect tool as per my experience, may be it differs a little from pro version **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** To test the web services using different test suites and also for load and volume testing to check the performance and reliability of the apps under test ### 32. Soapui is very simple & easy to use it. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** soapui supports all standards protocols and user friendly reporting. Team members can work in parallel such as developer, test engineer. it provides the efficient framework in generation the huge number of tests. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Hard to find the specific test case failed because user needs to go through the entire test suites. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Smart tool for API testing compared to other tool. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Soapui will assist to do functional verification against web services. ### 33. Open Source tool for API Testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** it supports the both REST and SOAP Web-services. SOAPUI interface is simple which helps for new users can learn very easily. it supports the Drag-and-drop interface which allows to develop the scripts very quickly. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** difficult to identify the failure reason and we need to go through all the test suites to identify the failure reason. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can Perform the Security Testing, Load Testing and Function Testing. Supports for multiple environments and easy to switch between development and Production environment. ### 34. Api testing with Soap Ui **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The interface of soap Ui is simple, projects can be created within no time, with just upload of a wsdl file the project will be ready to test web services under it, the response code method is very helpful to verify the sanity of applications under testing, assertions can be applied to automate the suites **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** There are three types of testing we can perform with soap functionality load and security, load testing does not provide enough features to test the apps effectively **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Highly recommend it for web services testing using wsdl files **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** To invoke web services to create different web services suites, to execute multiple suits at a time, to test security aspects of the application etc ### 35. SOAP UI user revies **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyabrata N. | Senior Cloud Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Amazingly simple UI and fast enough to configure. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Loading takes time and sometimes the response distorts the requests screen **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing various services for verifying the service status and response ### 36. Ultimate helper in testing and automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sviatlana Z. | Product Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Easy to use tool to test web services, but also configure as a client for your automatic WS messaging if you wish. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Well, now you can use online tools to do the same work, but I didn't have issues with SOAPUI so far **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing services of external providers. Using SOAPUI in internal application to communicate with third-party systems as a client - so no programming needed, just call soapui with configured message input and url and you're done (ok, not the best method, but easy and works) ### 37. SoapUi es an excellent tool for testing application for SOAP and REST **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan A. | Analista BPM semi senior, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** To declare the variables, you can change the values ​​of the parameters without having to code them in the whole test case. It is an easy tool to use and even for those who do not have knowledge in the area **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Depending on the test case executions may take time. While it is an easy-to-use tool sometimes some particular options are not very easy to find **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** This tool is a good option and complete **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was very useful to simulate the XML generated from the front-end. Sometimes the information failed in the middleware when processed and with SoapUI we could resend the same without needing to request a new test case. I facilitate the tests without relying on the front-end team. ### 38. Best tool for testing webservices and ensure all validations are working as per front end. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SoapUi is best to test webservices and verify webservices show same behaviour as application front end , via soapUi we can test for SOAP And REST ensuring API of top quality . SoapUI user interface is very simple and intuitive just pass XML and verify data validation works as per WSDL defined. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Nothing in particular , sometimes not able to catch schema validations and represents hex code for them. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** For testing we have always believed in SOAPUI it's fast , reliable and show quick results . **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are testing developed API's via SoapUI so that customer can enter bulk data into system without creating each and every record. Thus helping in scalability of application. ### 39. Soap ui for load and api testi **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhashree S. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Soap ui suit package comes with load security and normal api testing, load and api testing are two strong features that helps to improve reliability of application under test, suits helps to test sanity with one click to run multiple suits **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Nothing as such, it is quite difficult to interact with api, data update between xml bodies is sensitive and may fail of something is updated in wrong way ### 40. SOAPUI is massive for Web Services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shailesh K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Soap projects can be created from Web services definition language file or single services call. We assert our web services using various type of assertions. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** When one of the Web services is failed during the test suite execution user needs to go through the each web services to find the failure reason. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** It's is best for REST and SOAP. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web services are best for performing the task in less period of time to avoid the User Interface. ### 41. SoapUi is a best testing tool for webservices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Very easy and simple to use. People who are not familiar with the programming language can easily use this tool to test the webservice calls. We can change the various parameters values and the complete test cases without changing anything in the code. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I personally face no issues in the SoapUi. This is the best tool to test webservice calls. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** SoapUi is very useful in debugging. It simulate the web application XML calls. SoapUi makes application testing very easy as we can test the webservice call by changing the values from SoapUi tool. ### 42. Easy to use solution for API and web services testing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham G. | Graduate Services Assistant, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** 1. The interface is light and very easy to understand even for new users. 2. You can easily test the web services by loading them through WSDL address. 3. Supports almost all technologies (SOAP, REST, JDBC, HTTP, etc.) 4. Wide options for security testing features available even in free version. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** 1. Some essential features missing in free version like missing version control(GIT, etc) and no support for native CI/CD tools integration. 2. Sometimes hard to debug the API failed calls. 3. No support for data driven testing in free version. 4. API recording feature not available in free version. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly use for testing our web services for various products. And use to automate the regression testing. Overall nice product. ### 43. For Me, Awesome testing tool for SOAP and REST web services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rao T. | DotNet Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** There are lots of free code testing software but for me, SoapUI is the most beneficial solution for APIs development. Indeed it's the one-stop solution to test APIs. With this tool, you can easily test almost all the static and dynamic features of APIs and you can guide the development team to fix the issue where any loopholes occur in the development. SoapUI is cross-platform because It is built entirely on the Java platform, and its interface is on uses Swing for the user. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I use SOAPUI daily from last 3 years and I didn't see any dislike in it that's why I don't have any words to write SOAPUI dislikes **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** I recommended many developers for testing there APIs and web services because it's easy to use and very helpful for the developer for debugging. I recommended strongly to all new developers and QA tester **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I m software engineer and I develop web services and APIs on SOAP and REST on daily bases for these APIs and Webservices testing, I use SoupUI. because it's easy to use and very beneficial for me ### 44. As a QA Engineer, "SoapUI" is my day maker. Powerful and solid framework for API testing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hasitha W. | Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** 01. Any type of users (Beginners or Experts for API testing) can easily familiar with the user-interface and testing process by using "soap-UI" for couple of hours. And now i'm expert at this software. 02. By defining variables, you can customize parameter values without hard coding the values in whole test-case. 03. You can also use external data sheets to retrieve data to your executions. 04. You can simply send/receive multiple API calls and responses from different API's by just executing a single test suite. 05. Soap-UI provides very large scale of testing methods. examples : Load testing and Functional testing methods including security tests's. 06. SoapUI Open Source product is totally free for anyone who interested in web-service testing and also SoapUI Pro version gives you three types of reporting methods (Printable , Data Export , HTML Reports). I have used all of these versions personally. It's amazing. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** 01. Some times it's little bit slow when you work with complex test cases. 02. When generating test results, soapui open source edition doesn't give you much options comparing to pro version. 03. you need to know about "Groovy Scripts" If you want to create automated test plans in SoapUI open source version. 04. Subscription plan prices are bit high if you planned to go through Pro versions. Other than that there are no any cons to mention about this product. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** 'SoapUI' will save your effort and time. Highly recommended. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** "SoapUI" is my day maker. It's very easy to test API's with this product. It comes with major nun-functional testing types such as load testing, performance testing, stress testing, security testing. I have tested successfully more than 150 API's by using soapUI. Really helpful tool. ### 45. As a business analyst, this is a must-have tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ozgur I. | Principal Solutions Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Easy to integrate, easy to list every methods of API, fast response, easy to get performance metrics **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** there should be a json output, unstable memory usage **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** If you have business analysts or test engineers, this is a must-have business tool in order to accomplish your business **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** At an enterprise environment, a business analyst should have this tool to realize all possible integration cases according to different input types. Without this tool, it will not be easy to realize all cases in a limited time. ### 46. Xml, Json, Text API Testing using SoapUi **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Multiple suits can be created under each suite three types of test i.e functional/security and load testing can be performed in one click **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Soap normal version has covered all that is required to invoke web services in all the forms json xml text.. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Soap helped us to cover Normal, load and security tests in very precise manner and it saves time to run the multiple suits at a time ### 47. A very user friendly tool for testing soap and rest web services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** I like the User interface which is very clear to understand **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I haven't find anything disliking in this tool.. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used this extensively for load testing the application and to check the memory stats till where the application can handle ### 48. Testing XML - Easy Way **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** very easy to setup my regression test set for different environments and run them at the same time. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Debugging is difficult at times when each node is not clearly defined. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Use it for testing both REST as well as SOAP APIs. Happy testing **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running all our API testing using SOAP UI. Helps in identifying issues at the earliest whenever there is a change in the data structure or meta data parameters. ### 49. Advantages of SOAP UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Apoorv M. | IT Analyst at TCS, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** User-Friendly GUI and capability to automate scripts **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** If the previous responses are stored as well to be referred. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using to perform Functional and Load Testing. ### 50. Best for Web services load testing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumit G. | Test Program Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Create test cases and test suites for testing API's Test both SOAP and REST web services. Test runners for running automated jobs. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It can be made more user-friendly, beginner users struggle to use the interface. 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