What is Soapui

Definition: SoapUI is a cross-platform functional automation testing tool. SoapUI is free and open source tool and it has been designed to help test APIs such as SOAP and REST interfaces to ensure interoperability of different applications.

Description: SoapUI is an easy-to-use graphical interface and enterprise-class feature. It allows you to easily create and execute automated functional tests, regression and load tests. SoapUI has complete test coverage and supports all the standard protocols and technologies. SOAP-UI is not just the functional API testing tool but it also performs non-functional testing, such as performance test and security test.

Following are the important features of Soap UI:


Functional Testing

* It is a powerful tool which allows testers to write Functional API Tests

* It supports a drag-drop feature which accelerates the script development process


* It supports the debugging of tests and allows you to develop data-driven tests

* It supports multiple environments - it is easy to switch between different environments such as QA, Dev and Prod Environments

* It allows advanced scripting (tester can also develop the custom code depending on the Scenario)

Security Testing

* It possesses the capability to perform a complete vulnerability scan

* It also prevents SQL Injection to secure the databases of the application

* It scans for Stack overflows that are caused by documents huge in size

* It scans for Cross Site Scripting which occurs when service parameters are exposed in messages

Load Testing

* Soap UI distributes the Load Tests across any number of Load UI Agents

* It simulates high volume and real-world load testing with ease

* It allows advanced custom reporting to capture performance parameters

* It allows the End-to-End System Performance Monitoring



SOAP-INTEGRATION with Other Automation Tools:

* Maven

* HUDSON