Future Plans

Release plan

The following features have been scheduled for the next release:

  • Support for Attachements
  • Support for REST-style bindings
  • Improved WSDL inspection
  • WS-I Basic-Profile Validation
  • Related assertion-updates and refactorings

Also, the following minor improvements are being considered:

  • simple XQuery/XPath "testbench" for testing expressions
  • add possibility to label endpoints for readability
  • add possibility to transfer values from source request (instead of response)
  • add possibility to move teststeps to another testcase
  • workspace management
  • reload-project / file-system monitoring
  • option to reload schemas on run testcase
  • association of request credentials with an endpoint (so all requests to that endpoint use these same credentials)

Above improvements will be rolled out in minor releases during the coming months. Let me know if you have any wishes/suggestions that should be included!

Feature Wishlist

Obviously, there are a lot more features on the soapui wishlist for upcoming versions, add a feature request and it will be prioritized accordingly..(or even better, contribute these improvements yourself!)

Some of the features currently being considered (in no special order, let us know what you prefer!):

  • Load/Stress testing of WebServices
  • Validations for WS-Security compliance, etc
  • Request generation/submittal support for WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-RM, etc..
  • UDDI/JAXR support for discovering web-services
  • Schema-aware XML-editor
  • Tool-integrations for creating ws-clients/implementations (Wsdl2Java, wscompile, xmlbeans, etc)
  • WSDL authoring support (currently WSDLs/Schemas can not be modified)
  • Improved support for SOAP-Encoding
  • WSDL2 support
  • JMS/JBI support
  • Eclipse/IDEA/etc plugin
  • etc..