--- 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. very good tool for testing SOA applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brayan d. | programmer., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** I use SoapUI version 5.3.0. I use it every day at work and I find it a very good tool when developing a web service and I need to test it to know if it works correctly and has no issues. SoapUI has a good interface, I find it very comfortable and easy to use. It supports multiple protocols like SOA, HTTP, and Rest, which are the most used when developing a web service. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** In all this time that I have used SoapUI, I cannot say anything negative. I find it to be a very good application, and so far, I have not had any problems with it. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** very good software to develop web services to test them completely without necessarily having data and see if they work correctly **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** At the time of developing the SOA Oracle web service, I almost always use SoapUI to test it and ensure everything works correctly. It is a very good alternative to test all the services I develop before deploying them on the Bus. ### 2. Easy to test Webservices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arshdeep S. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** it is easy to install and has a great user interface. we can just put the WSDL address to which we have to connect and then the list of all the Methods will be shown that are present at WSDL location. we just need to fill out the variable that are required and hit the play button . the output will be seen in the second window which will show the message of success or error at a particular Line..It comment out the things that are required to fillout and also suggest which are optional to fill that makes it easy to use. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** The error message needs to be shown more as it doesnot suggest why the API call got failed. Some training is required on how to Use it and connect with WSDL and fill out the fields in XML . **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** i should recommend this tool to everyone as it is easy to use and can test the webservices easily and at a faster rate.the **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are using it to test all WSDL methods that are required by our client ### 3. Fantastic! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert M. | Quality Assurance Engineer, Hospital & Health Care, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** I'm very happy with the product; both from a usability perspective as well as from delivery perspective the toll has really helped us to build, deploy and test our service. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** There's a fairly large learning curve. You need to be sure that you're developers understand restful and wsdl before starting. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Make sure you use Swagger hub with the tool. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have 3 MVC application (2 web, 1 mobile). the choice we made early on was to one source of truth; one API. Soap UI allows us to realize that in a holistic way. ### 4. API Testing software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The best web services testing application. This stimulate the actual API calls. This is best tool for software testing while development. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** No dislike found. It fullfill all our requirements. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** SoapUI helps in API testing. This is very simple and easy to use. ### 5. Why I use SOAP UI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Can be used to Test both SOAP and REST Services including Automation and Test Automation **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Some UI improvements are needed, Also, if there is an option to save the response for each request, it would be helpful **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Functional Testing and Automation of webservices ### 6. Great Test automation tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** I like the way we can combine tests into test suites and run multiple service tests in one go. We have many SOAP services on OSB and SOA that we run on SoapUI. We then export these into Jenkins and do continuous runs on a daily basis. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I wish there is more support for XPath and Xquery. I wish there is a link to version control repository. I think that does not exist. For rest services I feel more comfortable using chrome plugin for postman. It's very convenient. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Consider looking at Postman. I use it sometimes for rest services and it's easy and convenient. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We automate test runs and mock services using SoapUI. IT's a great tool. We use it on a daily basis. ### 7. Good Unit Testing tool for Webservices - WSDL and SOAP based services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** We can mock services request and response for soap based webservices. This feature is useful to unit test the webservice client and servers. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** The tool tends to use more memory and hangs if the window is opened for a longer time . **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** For unit testing webservices in non-production environments. ### 8. Great for testing out API's **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luciano Exequiel F. | Co-Fundador, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** I like the simplicity of which you can test a WebService. You just load the WSDL address, and get all the methods it has posted. Then you submit your variables and get a result. Easy as that. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It might take a while to load, and the visual interface could be more lean. Saving projects can be a little confusing. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** If you are a developer and need to try and use WebServices, this app is great for you, as it will save you a lot of time. You will get a better understanding of what variables you are suppose to send and receive when using WebServices, making your software best prepared to face different scenarios. Its a must have app, and its free. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a great debugging tool. I use it a lot, to test out webservices, saving me a lot of time as I can try out the WebService before implementing it in my code. I also recommend it to another devs that might be using my webservices to try them out and save time. ### 9. SoapUI FTW **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** It is an easy tool learn quickly, even for those new to testing API's. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Some options are difficult to find and tests can take a long time to run. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing web services, debugging , simulating XML generation. ### 10. Smartbear SoapUI does the job **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2019 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Able to perform all requisite load tests and UI is excellent. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Licensing costs too complicated, need to be simplified. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load testing, performance ### 11. Excellent Tool for Web Service Development/Testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe H. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SoapUI allows you to very quickly test web service calls. The interface is intuitive and allows you to tinker with service calls in a very productive way. You can tweak the inputs and get immediate feedback. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Being cross-platform, the UI is a bit dated looking - it's got that standard, Java-UI look to it. Still workable, just not as modern-looking as a standard Windows app. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** I don't use this tool every day, but when I need it, it definitely does its job! **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is priceless when it comes time for an app/website to make calls into a service to retrieve data. It closes the loop on the request/response debugging and allows for quicker development times. ### 12. Extremely good SOAP message IDE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James T. | Senior Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2017 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SOAP UI hides a lot of the message details which are most-commonly not needed (for example security configuration), but when needed, can be easily exposed and modified as necessary. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** For the most part the GUI behaves nicely, but one thing in particular (and yes it's a small thing) that I find extremely annoying is the auto-resizing of SOAP UI windows that you have open. I think the GUI tries to be "smart" and help resize things for you, but as I switch between SOAP UI windows I end up having to constantly resize my SOAP UI windows back to my liking...A small gripe, but no less annoying. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Small GUI gripes aside, this is still an excellent product. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I design, develop, and test SOAP messages using SOAP UI. ### 13. Good Tool for Automated Testing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Simple, Nice and Clean Interface. Easy to script the Test Cases with Groovy Scripting. Lot of assertion options. Provides support for REST and SOAP Testing. Easy to group all the test cases and execute them with a defined set of Virtual Users for doing a quick performance testing of the REST or SOAP End Points. Nice features to configure the Performance testing with Virtual Users, Times, Hits per Min etc., **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Features are limited in the Open Source version in compared to the Professional Licensed Version. Version control of the script is not supported. Cannot run the same test case with a list of defined test data injected externally via Database or an Excel sheet which is supported only in the pro version. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Very nice tool for automating the test cases. Saves a lot of time to execute the regression t **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated the End to End Testing of the REST and SOAP End Points with the help of SOAP UI Test Scripts. ### 14. Best opensource tool in market for API Testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** GS Rajesh V. | Senior Associate, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2017 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** 1. I'm using this tool from last 4 yrs, trained many.. as of now you can't get any better tool for free. 2. I have also used ReadyAPI (paid version of SoapUI) which is much easy to use. 3. I would like to recommend to all beginners to start with soapUI to get better hands on with Groovy. 4. Most of my client like the training we provided on soapUI for their project. 5.Most importantly Smartbear team regularly stays in contact with you for training and improvements in the application for their latest enhancements. 6. Latest version soapUI can do most of the job which are available in enterprise version. 7. It can test Both SOAP & REST API services, it provides output in XML format. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** given the open source tool to use I don't have any complaints to fix for this tool. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Best Automation tool for API's in market for free **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have implemented automation framework for some of my clients which are pretty successful. ### 15. A must have tool for testing web services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Testing our soap and rest web services are very convenient through soap ui tool. This tool is very user friendly and easy to use. You can setup test cases as well. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Nothing. It works fine what it intends to do. Very fast tool. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to test soap and rest services. ### 16. REst and SOAP web services testing tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** IT is very easy to import WSDL or URI and test APIs. One can use assertions or automate using groovy scripts **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** nothing really, this tool pretty much does everything we need in our project **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Use this tool if you need to test webservices **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** automate web service testing using SoapUI ### 17. Soapui is a very versatile application! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johameli M. | Project Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** I like it because it is a very versatile application that allows me to test, simulate and generate web services code quickly, starting with the contract in WSDL format and with a SOAP link over HTTP **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I don´t have any dislike with this software! **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to easily generate the skeleton of a request. I just have to fill it with the values ​​we want to try and that's it, that saves me a lot of time in the programming projects! ### 18. very good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Excellent tool to manage and certify services, both soap and rest and very easy to use, requires minimal professional knowledge. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** usually have difficulties when running certain services, the application must be restarted. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** is an excellent tool and easy to use **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** is an excellent tool to create and test soap and rest services. ### 19. SOAPUI is very useful to test REST calls **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shankar C. | Senior Web Application Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** with this tool we can test REST calls and datapower calls very easily and can save lot of time and you can save the all links as project in this tool. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** you need to learn how to work this tool initially, its not self explanatory some body needs to help you on this. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** yes I will defenetly recommend this one **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** you can test end points very easily with out heavy debugging of your code. you can test the rest call response with out debugging. you can validate endpoints for different validations like type and wsdl output ### 20. Its Feature Rich,and Best for Soap Services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ankit k. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2017 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** We can import test cases and can trigger soap services as well as REST services. the Result can be viewed in the format which ever you like. Say JSON,XML etc I have used it for getting the test loaded in the SOAP UI so that I can test REST services quickly. Its better than POSTMAN **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Its a very heavy client and slows down the system. When comparing to post man it is very slow, but considering the features that it provides its okay **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Yes its worth to use. It has enterprise features which can be purchased according to the need of the individual or the enterprise. Which is not the case with the other Web service testing tools and the option to see the various types of output from the same output, You do not require a separate plugin if you need a output in json,xml or any other format. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the tool to tweak our REST and Soap Services, So it can be consumed by the fronted later. ### 21. Free Testing tool for Secured Transactions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MUHAMMAD H. | Performance Lead, Biotechnology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** We can leverage the tool on any platform for secured testing for different API's and Protocols. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Nothing so far, it works for me very well. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** I would recommend this tool. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometime you can't send outbound calls without having a secured platform, for that purpose soupui is the better solution in webservices. ### 22. A great tool for soap testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** the seamless testing it provides for soap based and rest based services. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** unmanaged support for saving the soap projects **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** this is one of the most amazing and easily accessible tool used not just for developers but also by testing **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** testing by consuming supplier APIs to check if the desired response for inventory ### 23. Worked on SoapUI for REST API testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajani P. | Principal Software Development Engineer in Test, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Its great tool with lots of helpful documentation. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I see key features like Data sink is available but in Pro version only. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implemented SoapUI in healthcare domain. ### 24. Effective tool for API testing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Easy import of project to tool and then it creates sample request with minimal Information **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Structure is little bit cumbersome and sometime you have to switch to the right window that you are working on **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** API single calls and then convert them to alias test to mimic real time production situations ### 25. SoapUI Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Donna Faye O. | Transition Agent, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2017 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The user interface of SOPAUI is clean and easy to use, The ability to import .wsdl files also makes it easy to test systems that have hundreds of APIs. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** The windows that pop up for each API can be better organized. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Minimize windows that you are not currently using to make it easier to go back to when you have multiple windows open. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** SOAPUI allows us to test the functionality and integration of our headend systems even when the mobile clients are not yet ready. This allows us to deliver our projects without having to wait for the applications to be deployed to us, which may take anywhere from a few weeks to months after the headend systems are ready. ### 26. Great product for web services testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** This is a light weight product which can be used for on-the-go testing of web services **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** The projects have to be explicitly saved if you don't want to lose the changes during any system crashes **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developer testing of services ### 27. Good tool for testing webservices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Foluke A. | Software Engineer | Team Lead Finacle E-banking Unit, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Light weight and simplicity Make it quite easy to test and debug web services without necessarily writing a list of codes Automated xml generated makes life pretty easy, and this will contain all the methods which is one of the best feature. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Replication of failed services UI of the tool can be improved to be lore appealing to users The error display are not quite descriptive for easy resolution **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** It is a very useful and easy to use tool for testing webservices(SOAP or REST), there are other features in the tool that can be utilized if you can study them properly **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing multiple webservice provided by client for intergration. This application has saved me so much time to test and debug these websevice especially when my task involves integration with more 40 webservice from various vendors with series of issues associated with them. SoapUI makes it easy to test them without writing any code, Also the generated xml(Request / Response) simplifies my work, i just have to copy/ paste then edit the entries to suit my task ### 28. Good for web service integration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** You can easily get the wsdl and start testing the web api **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** First time setup is lengthy and time taking **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to validate and develop the web api which is exposed to outer traffic ### 29. Amazing user interaction tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2017 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** It's very easy to use and works great, Nice UI and request/response system **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Soapui only have 2 ways to see request, response, more needs to be added **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am testing offers at MNC with this ### 30. Fantastic tool to test Web Services! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sara Z. | Senior Web Programmer, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** For me, SOAPUI is a great tool fort testing Web Services. It allows you to create SOAP and REST projects and once this is done you can simulate calls to this services. Besides, this tool is able to generate the wadl files of each call that you have defined. You can define test cases, load WSDL files... In my opinion is a tool that all web developer should, at least, use in some occassion. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It is a tool that helps me with the task of testing Web Services, so I am quite happy with it. Maybe one thing that I do not like so much is the organization of the working windows. Each panel shows many information and fields, what it turns into a little caotic window. Nevertheless, I totally recommend this tool so I have not got any more negative points to add. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** It is better than other similars tools because, for example, SOAPUI allows you to connect to web services without the need of adding security certificates. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to test Web Services that my workmates or I have developed, in a simple and quickly way. ### 31. Best tool for Testing soap services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash S. | Software Development Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** We need to provide end point of our service, It'll fetch all the methods with sample xml request, Its a best feature on this tool. Also we can add many projects with different- different service end points those will be saved in our local drive. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** UI is not supporting for 4K screen size laptop, because of this i have reduced my screen size to use this tool. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Always create project and save those in your local drive location for backup of those project. So you can easily move those project to another system and use them without creating project for existing services again. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its very helpful for testing our service. currently in my project have many services for those i have created many project on it. for testing i'm calling those service request which were created automatically while adding service end point. ### 32. SOAPUI TO THE RESCUE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Funso A. | Software Engineer, Banking, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The fact that I can use this to test different webservices such as soap-based and restful webservices **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** There is nothing especially as I am enjoying using it. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** SOAPUI is the best! A trial will convince you **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to consume some webservices provided by the bank we are servicing ### 33. Great product and works well, with a few bugs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jiahao L. | Software Engineer, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The functionality works great. Very reliable when it comes to the actual web service testing. UI is pretty simple and straightforward. Fairly lightweight of an application. Love the auto-format XML feature. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Creating a new project with an unsuccessful project generation still results in the bad project being added under the same name as if the project was good. This is annoying when having to go back to delete the bad projects. Structure of saving projects and requests are a bit confusing. UI is simple, but a bit outdated. Validation errors are usually not very descriptive. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Learn the basics and establish a save structure before creating too many projects and everything becomes unorganized. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing web services ### 34. Works Well For Testing Service Requests **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael M. | Appian BPM Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Easy efficient interface, I use for testing our servlets. Building projects is easy and makes everything reusable. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Nothing as of yet. Interface could use a bit of modernization, but I am on an older version because our company has yet to update. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Go for it. Solid product that does what it says. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing servlets for proper response based on request, executing requests to update processes which are having issues ### 35. 'must have' tool for SOAP testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun B. | Technical Consultant - QA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The functionality of SOAP UI is a must-to-have for any web service developer and i find the tool excellent and really appreciate the work on it..It provide good assert method and reports. It provides nice support Plugin in Eclipse.Excellent tool to get started with web service testing and deep dive later as you get more insight into the tool and the technology..intuitive and interactive gui stacked with useful features makes web service functional and performance testing a breeze...and last but not the least an excellent support team which seems to be on top of every problem you face... **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** An essential tool with a truly awful interface (kind of ironic given the app has UI in its name). Seriously, hire a *real* UX expert to re-tool the interface. Given that testing usually has to pick up the slack from others' late delivery, the last thing I need is to waste time struggling with a sub-standard UI (that ignores every sensible convention) to do my job. It may be just the Mac version, but trying to move tests within projects or steps between projects is an exercise in frustration. Scrolling through the Navigator dragging a step or test is a sometimes thing - most of the time I have to drop a test or a step part way and then pick it up again to move it to where I need it. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** when trying to resize windows, the cursor that lets you resize both vertically and horizontally is REALLY difficult to find it; it's like only one pixel will activate it. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a good tool for testing webservice. Almost no one can ignore that. We solved all webservices based business problems to our clients and they were very happy with the things. ### 36. Testing Web Projects Virtually :) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Ease of creating projects. Saving project for future use. Ease of changing hitting URL/content to run all cases. Best virtual tool to feel as source for any application **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Eventhough they are improving frequently the UI seems to be little compllicated still. Enabling Autosaving project is a good feature and Prompting user with appropriate alerts will be great **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** Feel the comfort in integration testing. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing our interfaces by hitting with different URLs and ports with different access modes feeling as source. ### 37. A great tool for a service oriented product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Florin S. | QA Automation Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** It's fast and easy to just fire up the program and test something out quick. You can save multiple calls with different data to the same url. It has xml/json/text/multipart support. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** It takes a bit to familiarize with the functionality but once you do it makes sense how everything's structured and it's easy to work with it. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** There's a lot of stuff here to make your life easier, setting up multiple endpoints per request, choosing rest method, url params along with different media types. Just read through the docs a bit or try going through the app and checking everything before making up your mind about it. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly testing out/debugging services as they are being built. Testing/debugging production issues easy, fast and safe. ### 38. A very great tool to test web services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** I really like the interface of soap UI and the fact that it provides tutorials and a great support platform online to start using as a beginer **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** So far I really like the product and the features that are available in SOAP UI **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** I think SOAP UI reports could be more interactive in terms of understanding to a non technical person **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** we check requests and response on a daily basis for web services and SOAP UI is a great tool to acheive that ### 39. Fantastic Program for Testing Web Services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** SoapUI excels in allowing a developer to test and interact with deployed web services. SoapUI obviously works with SOAP endpoints, but also works with JSON requests as well. I've only used the program to test SOAP services and it does it surprisingly well. By supplying the application a WSDL file (either locally or on the web), it's able to create sample requests for each action belonging to the WSDL. It can really save a lot of time when testing and interacting with services. Another huge plus is that it is a cross platform application. I use both the OSX and Windows version on a daily basis. There is also a portable version of the app which I keep on a flash drive for using on various Windows machines. This is a very handy feature. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** The UI is a bit dated and somewhat buggy. From time to time, buttons and menus will appear hidden or be hard to find. This seems to be an issue when working on smaller displays (or HiDPI displays such as the MacBook Pro). I've also noticed that these UI issues are more prevalent on the OSX build of the application. It is less noticeable on the Windows version of the app. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** I would definitely recommend giving SoapUI a shot if you are a developer that is actively testing web services using either SOAP or JSON. I'm a fairly basic user of this application and I'm sure it has a lot more to offer than what I've discovered. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me, as a developer, test various web services. Particularly, I'm testing SOAP services. I'm developing an iOS application which needs to interface with the SOAP services by sending requests and reading the data that is returned. This has saved me countless hours compared to trying to manually craft a SOAP request using another tool. ### 40. SOAP UI is powerful, but has some drawbacks **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leif K. | Principal Systems Engineer, Defense & Space, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** The free open source SOAP UI version is great for making simple web service mocks with 0 lines of code by just pointing to the WSDL file for the web service. Beyond that it is very powerful for for making advanced dynamic mock services and complex test suites to test the functionality of your developed code to host a web service. The real power is the Groovy script functionality that essentially lets you write Java-like code to manipulate requests/responses for web services and make assertions about the correctness of the responses. It even allows you to directly access a database to verify the content if it was modified by a web service, as well as use file input/output within the Groovy script. Overall it's a very valuable tool to learn to use if you are developing or testing web services. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** SOAP UI has really bad documentation on usage of advanced features for the free version so it is hard to dig through the various posts that give hints about how to actually use the Groovy script functionality. A lot of it was piecing things together and trial/error for me. There are also a lot of problems with the amount of memory SOAP UI requires growing to the point where the program crashes. This can be alleviated somewhat if you allocate a very large amount of memory to it on startup and select some specific options about logging levels, but I still think this is a general stability problem with the program. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** If you only need a simple mock service or want to put the time in to learn the program's advanced features, SOAP UI has a lot to offer in terms of functionality and power for software testing of web services. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been able to make a large number of mock web services and complex test suites for verification of web service functionality for my job. ### 41. Used SOAPUI for more than 2 years testing SOAP Webservices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vitor H. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Is easy to connect to multiple webservices, change request information you send. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** SOAPUI interface is not friendly and sometimes is difficult to find certain options. **Recommendations to others considering SOAPUI:** It's free and will meet your requirements. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Systems integration testing. ### 42. Useful tool for debugging webservices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bikram S. | Sr. IT Consultant, Team Lead, Government Administration, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Very easy to use. As easy as copy pasting the url and bang the response xml. I use it mostly to debug my webservices locally. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** I had to modify the requests while sending null values as it was not handled. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing a Web service to be utilized by other application. It is very handle to debug locally. ### 43. SOAP UI for Web service testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2016 **What do you like best about SOAPUI?** Very easy and best tool to Web-service development testing. **What do you dislike about SOAPUI?** Some thing desktop tool, instead should provide features like running in a server to give access to multiple person. **What problems is SOAPUI solving and how is that benefiting you?** For testing Web-service development code. 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