SoapUI is an open source

Open source

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 web service testing tool for service-oriented architecture

Service-oriented architecture

In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...

s (SOA). Its functionality covers web service

Web service

A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...

 inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking

Mock object

In object-oriented programming, mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways. A programmer typically creates a mock object to test the behavior of some other object, in much the same way that a car designer uses a crash test dummy to simulate the...

, functional testing, load and compliance testing. Eviware also released a Pro version as a commercial product which is mainly focused on features designed to enhance productivity. In 2011, SmartBear Software

SmartBear Software

SmartBear Software is a software company which provides tools for software developers, quality assurance engineers and IT professionals. SmartBear Software is the unification of AutomatedQA, the original Smart Bear Software and Pragmatic Software.-Products:...

 acquired Eviware.

SoapUI was initially released to Sourceforge

SourceForge

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 in September 2005. It is free software

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, licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License

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. Since the initial release, soapUI has been downloaded more than 2,000,000 times. It is built entirely on the Java platform and uses Java Swing

Swing (Java)

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 as the GUI

Gui

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. This means that soapUI is cross-platform

Cross-platform

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. Today, soapUI also supports IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA

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, Eclipse

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 and NetBeans

NetBeans

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.

soapUI features overview

Core features include:

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

soapUI [Pro] features overview

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

Feature	Benefit	Read more
WSDL coverage	Analyze request/response messages to see how well a WSDL contract is being tested/mocked/used.
WSDL refactoring	Automatically update requests/response/assertions when the underlying WSDL.
Composite projects	Work together in a team on your Web service testing projects.
Requirements management	Manage, import, and export project requirements and link them to test cases.
Form-based request editor	To ease the editing and understanding of request messages for both technical and non-technical users.
Overview message viewer	To get an overview of the corresponding response/mock-request/monitored message.
Tree-based request/response editor	To ease the navigation and understanding of larger messages.
Table inspector	To quickly give an overview of tabular message content.
Schema inspector	To ease inspection and debugging of message content.
XML inspector	To ease inspection and debugging of message content.
Doc inspector	To ease understanding of message content.
DataSource TestStep	To ease the creation of data-driven tests.
DataSink TestStep	Eases collection of data to be used in subsequent tests or for external reporting.
DataGen TestStep	To simplify comprehensive testing of complex interfaces.
Property transfer wizards	To ease the creation of complex test cases / message flows.
XPath Assertion Wizards	To ease the creation of XPath assertions for TestRequest and MockResponse steps.
XPath Wizards	Eases creation of XPath expressions in many situations.
Integrated reporting	To provide summaries of functional testing for tracking and governance.
Groovy script library	Eases reuse and scripting of complex scenarios.
Tabbed desktop	Eases desktop management with multiple editors.

Awards

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

• ATI Automation Honors, 2009
• InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Award, 2008
• SOAWorld Readers' Choice Award, 2007

External links

• soapUI Website
• SmartBear Sweden Website

See also

• Automated testing
• List of unit testing frameworks
• Software testing
  Software testing
  Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software...
  
  
• System testing
  System testing
  System testing of software or hardware is testing conducted on a complete, integrated system to evaluate the system's compliance with its specified requirements. System testing falls within the scope of black box testing, and as such, should require no knowledge of the inner design of the code or...
  
  
• Test case
  Test case
  A test case in software engineering is a set of conditions or variables under which a tester will determine whether an application or software system is working correctly or not. The mechanism for determining whether a software program or system has passed or failed such a test is known as a test...
  
  
• Test-driven development
  Test-driven development
  Test-driven development is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces code to pass that test and finally refactors the new...
  
  
• itko
  Itko
  ITKO is an enterprise software company based in Plano, Texas. ITKO's LISA product suite is designed to improve the effectiveness of application development teams, especially those involved in custom applications, SOA, and cloud computing...
  
  
• xUnit
  XUnit
  Various code-driven testing frameworks have come to be known collectively as xUnit. These frameworks allow testing of different elements of software, such as functions and classes...
  
   - a family of unit testing frameworks.
• Apache JMeter
• Soatest
  Soatest
  Parasoft SOAtest is "a comprehensive testing and analysis tool suite for tailored to the unique testing and validation needs of Service Oriented Architectures." It helps testers test the message layer functionality of their services by automating their testing and supports numerous transport...
  
  
• Soapsonar
  Soapsonar
  SOAPSonar is a software testing and diagnostics tool for SOAP, XML and REST based Web Services. The core focus is on functional, performance, interoperability, and security testing of service endpoints by performing client simulation and automated generation of client messages.-Features:SOAPSonar...
  
  
• TestComplete
  TestComplete
  TestComplete is an automated testing tool, developed by SmartBear Software which aims to allow testers to create software quality tests. Tests can be recorded, manually scripted or created manually with keyword operations and used for automated playback and error logging.TestComplete is used for...