Feature Overview
soapUI is a free and open source desktop application for
It is mainly aimed at developers and testers providing or consuming WSDL or REST based Web Services (Java, .net, etc).
Functional and Load Testing can be done both interactively in soapUI or within an automated build or integration process
using the soapUI command line tools.
Mock Web Services can easily be created for any WSDL and hosted from within soapUI or using the command-line MockService runner.
IDE-plugins are available for
soapUI requires Java 1.5 and is licensed under the LGPL license.
soapUI Pro
soapUI is also available as a commercial version, soapUI Pro, which adds extensive professional support and a
number of productivity enhancements to the soapUI interface.
WSDL Service Inspection
The following features for inspecting WSDL SOAP based Web Services are available:
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REST Service Inspection
The following features for inspecting REST based Web Services are available:
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WSDL Service Invocation
The following features for invoking WSDL based web services are currently available:
- Automatic generation of Web Service requests from associated schema
- Manage unlimited number of requests for each operation
- Manage multiple service endpoints for each interface
- Support for Basic, Digest, WS-Security and NTLM Web Service authentication
- Automatically add WS-Addressing headers to outgoing requests
- Extensive WS-Security tool support for encrypting/decrypting and signing/validating messages
- Support for Attachments testing; MTOM, SOAP with Attachments, Inline files
- Manage custom HTTP Headers for each request
- Support for both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2
- Raw message viewer for viewing unprocessed message content as it is sent over the wire
- Web Service Form Editor for easy editing of message input (soapUI Pro only)
- Web Service Tree Editor for easy editing of message input (soapUI Pro only)
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REST Service Invocation
The following features for invoking REST bases web services are currently available:
- Automatic generation of REST Service request representations from associated schema
- Manage unlimited number of requests for each operation
- Support all WADL parameter types and representations
- Manage multiple service endpoints for each service
- Support for Basic, Digest, WS-Security and NTLM Web Service authentication
- Support for simulating HTML Forms and MIME Attachments
- Manage custom HTTP Headers for each request
- Raw message viewer for viewing unprocessed message content as it is sent over the wire
- Web Service Form Editor for easy editing of message input (soapUI Pro only)
- Web Service Tree Editor for easy editing of message input (soapUI Pro only)
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Web Service Development and Validation
The following features are available for development of Web Services:
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Web Service Functional Testing
The following features for functional testing of both WSDL and REST Web Services are currently available:
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Web Service Load Testing
The following features for load testing web services are currently available:
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Web Service Simulation
The following features for simulating/mocking web services are currently available:
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Getting Started