1. What is SoapUI?

SoapUI is the world's leading open-source testing platform. It is the most widely used automation tool
for testing web services and web APIs of SOAP and REST interfaces. It is a boon for testers to test
functional and non-functional testing, such as automated testing, functional, load testing, regression,
simulation and mocking without hindrance because its user interface is very simple to use.

It supports various standard protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, REST, AMF, JDBC, SOAP, etc., that exchange
information in structured data such as XML, plain text or JSON, etc. with the help of network services or
web APIs in a computer.

SoapUI Released

A SoapUI is a cross-platform and language-independent which was first released by Eviware in

September 2005 at SourceForge, later acquired by SmartBear in 2011. And when its first version release,
it has been downloaded by 2000,000 times. The SoapUI software is a licensed software under the terms
of a European Union public license. It is purely based on the Java platform that uses Swing for the User
Interface, and it can run on most of the latest operating systems, including MAC, Linux and Windows.
Furthermore, its cross-platform behavior it supports Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans.

The following are the different versions of SoapUI since its initial release.

Version Name Release Notes Release Date

SoapUI 1.0 The Initial Release 2005/10/16

SoapUI 1.5 The LoadTesting Release 2006/04/06

SoapUI 1.6 The Tools Release 2006/11/12

SoapUI 1.7 The Mock/ Pro Release 2007/04/10

SoapUI 2.0 The Coverage Release 2007/12/12

SoapUI 2.5 The REST Release 2008/11/18

SoapUI 3.0 The Reporting Release 2009/07/09

SoapUI 3.5 The Protocol Release 2010/03/01

SoapUI 3.6 The LoadUI Release 2010/09/14

SoapUI 4.0 The Security Release 2011/06/14

SoapUI 4.5 The Big Ears Release 2012/03/28

SoapUI 5.2 Major New Features Release 2015/07/02

SoapUI 5.3 SoapUI Open Source 2016/12/05

SoapUI 5.4 Open Source 2017/11/27

SoapUI 5.5 Open Source 2019/02/12

SoapUI 5.6 Open Source 2020/7/14

SoapUI 5.6.1 Open Source 2021/12/20

2. SoapUI features

Main features of SoapUI are:

1. Functional Testing
2. Load Testing
3. Security testing
4. Compliance Testing
5. Regression Testing
6. Boundary Scan
7. Recording
8. Actionable Metrics
9. Technology Support
10. Automation
11. Auto Mock Creation
12. Server Deployment
13. Ecosystem
14. REST Discovery
15. Simulation Generation
16. Analytics
17. Advanced Scripting
18. Easy REST Setup
19. SQL Injection
 20. Cross Site scripting
21. Service Simulation

Functional Testing
It is the powerful and innovative features that validate the functional or behavioral tests of web services
and applications. Let's discuss the features of the SoapUI supports as follows:

 It provides the user-defined scripts that can be customized as per the requirement of the testing.
 Drag-Drop: It supports drag and drops features to create and run the most complex test
scenarios.
 Multi Environment Support: It supports multi-environment to switch between various
environments like QA, Dev, and prod environment.
 Test Coverage: SoapUI allows testers to dynamically analyze how a SOAP or REST service is
covered by functional testing.
 Data Driven Testing: SoapUI allows the tester to debug and develop data-driven tests.

Load Testing
Load testing is used to analyze the web service or web API's behavior based on specific tasks or load.
Generally, a Load test is used in SOAPUI to test performance assessments of web services such as load,
stress, and endurance of all non-functional testing types. Let's discuss the features of the SoapUI
supports as follows:

 Ease of Use: Using a simple user interface and handling the LoadUI agents of SoapUI tools makes
load testing very easy and simple.
 LoadUI Agents: SoapUI contains the number of LoadUI agents to analyze distribution and
performance on various parameters.
 Performance Monitoring: A SoapUI has an efficient and advanced reporting system for collecting
test results on various performance parameters for load testing.

Security Testing
Security testing is an important tool that is used to ensure the authentication and authorization of Web
Services and Web API by using the request and response model in the SoapUI. Let's discuss the features
of the SoapUI supports as follows:

 Cross-Site Scripting: A cross-site scripting is a security test that scans and detects potential risks
on specific parameters in structured messages.
 Security Database: As the name suggests, the security database that detects and scans some
potential SQL injections may damage the database.
 Stack Overflow: It is used in the SoapUI web testing tool to scan and locate massive documents
within XML messages that can cause a stack overflow.

Compliance Testing
A compliance testing consists of a source and data authentication license certificate and various service
agreements to validate a web service or web API. Furthermore, these data authentication certificates
and test scripts call before and after compliance testing of a SoapUI tool to check if the last received
message is associated with the WSDL or WADL schema definition.

Regression Testing
Regression testing is functional testing used in the SoapUI tool to analyze the bugs or malfunctions of the
web service. And it also reverifies the web service after new changes in the current release tools. In
other words, we can say that it is the responsibility of a tester to execute the test suits and certify
whether the existing functionalities are not breaking after the new changes to the SoapUI tools and its
working fine with the tools.

3. SoapUI Integration
The following SoapUI integrations are currently offered by the vendor:
 JUnit
 TeamCity
 REST
 QC
 JIRA
 Hudson
 Mave
 AMF
 Eclipse
 ANT
 Version One
 Microsoft Excel
 ESB
 GitHub
 JENKINS
 Bamboo
 Ready API

SoapUI integrated very well with popular tools:

 Maven
 Apache Maven is a software project management tool that can manage a project’s
build, reporting and documentation from a central repository. Maven can also execute
SOAPUI tests within Maven Build using simple commands.

 HUDSON

HUDSON, a Java based Continuous integration tool and integrates with tools such as
CVS, Subversion, Git, Perforce, Clearcase, and RTC. SOAPUI also integrates with
HUDSON, which helps us to spot bugs quickly for each and every commit by the
developers.

 JUnit

JUnit is a Unit Testing framework built in Java, which can control the flow of tests
from SOAPUI as well.

 Apache – Ant

Apache Ant, a Java library which is a command-line tool that helps in building
software. Using SOAP UI’s Command line, we can execute tests within an ANT
Automated Build.
4. How to use SoapUI?

5. Compare with other automation test tool? (selenium)

SOAP UI Vs Selenium:

SOAP UI Selenium

SOAP UI is NOT used for User Interface Selenium is used for User Interface Testing.
SOAP UI Selenium

Testing. It is only used for WebAPI or

WebService Testing

Capability to test the data sent and received

between the web browser and a web server.
Selenium cannot test protocols, but they can test the UI behavior.
Can test the protocols/technologies such as
REST, SOAP.

Selenium can perform only Functional Testing. Performance Testing to

Able to perform functional, load and Security some extent because we can track execution time with regards to the
Testing of the above-mentioned technologies. performance but cannot test multi-user and multi-
tenancy. Selenium certainly cannot be used for security testing.

It is PROTOCOL Dependent and NOT browser

Selenium depends on the browser capabilities.
dependent.

6. Pros and cons?

Advantages of SoapUI

o It provides a simple and user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI).

o Cross-platform desktop-based application.

o It supports all standard protocols and technologies such as HTTP, HTTPS, AMF, JDBC, SOAP,
WSDL, etc.

o SoapUI costs less than all other test tools available in the market.

o It is also used as message broadcasting.

o It provides a fast and well-organized framework that generates lots of web services tests.

o It creates mocks where testers can test real applications.

o It supports drag and drops features to access script development.

o Transferring data from one response or source to different API calls without manual interaction
in the SoapUI tool.

o It facilitates tester and developer teams to work together.

o SOAPUI tool provides the facility to get data from various sources of web service without
developing any code.

Disadvantages of SoapUI
o Security testing requires enhancements.

o The Mock response module should be more enhances and simplified.

o It takes longer to request big data and dual tasks to test web services.