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Welcome to soapUI 1.6!

Welcome to soapUI 1.6! We are happy to finally release this version with several key improvements to soapUI functionality.

Major Improvements

Minor Improvements

Final release Improvements

soapUI 1.6 final introduces a large number of fixes and many minor improvements which have been accumulated during the snapshot releases during the last months. Some highlights are :

  • Added exclusion list to proxy settings (comma-seperated)
  • Added 2 context properties available when load-testing:
    1. ThreadIndex - the index of the created thread... this value will never change for a given TestCase during its run time.. New threads will simply get an incremented index... the mod of this value could for example be used as an index into a data-file (to handle changes in number of threads)
    2. RunCount - tells how many times the TestCase has been run by its thread (not in total) during the current LoadTest
  • Added initial support for unzipping gzipped response messages, ie messages with a Content-Type or Content-Encoding ending with "gzip". Thanks to Diego Banda.
  • Added request-level property to inline attachment content in response editor (as in soapUI 1.5), see forum discussion
  • Improved saving of projects to not corrupt files on out-of-memory (saving now first saves to an in-memory buffer which is written to file if no errors occur..)
  • Fixed validation of derived types in xml-editors
  • Fixed automatic adding of TestStep Status assertion to newly created loadtests, see forum discussion
  • Added option to ignore case in Contains/NotContains assertions
  • Improved support for automatic validation by adding an option to not send invalid requests (see Feature Request)
  • Added support for automatic validation of request/response messages in editors (see Feature Request), thanks to Michael Vorburger! ("Preferences / UI Settings / Validate Request / Response")
  • Added support for generating rpc-parts for attachments ("Preferences / WSDL Settings / Attachment Parts")
  • Added [Tools] button which open "Preferences / Integrated Tools" for setting tool paths
  • General dialog improvements; Escape closes and F1 shows online help if available
  • Fixed validation of SOAP mustUnderstand/encodingStyle attributes in entire messages, see forum discussion
  • Added possibility to edit response message and revalidate with Alt-V (including assertions), see forum discussion
  • Added possibility for custom background image in desktop. Just place a soapui-background.gif/jpg/png in the soapUI bin directory (at last :-), Thanks to Roger Sundberg
  • Added option to open TestCase editor when adding requests to a TestCase
  • Updated to commons-ssl-0.3.0.jar
  • Fixed caching of attachments to now be saved in the soapui-project file (compressed).. this makes portability of soapui-projects with attachments much simpler... The attachment-folder setting has been removed.
  • Fixed property-expansion when running xpath-assertions and property-transfers from within their editors.
  • Fixes password-input fields to be masked

See the snapshot document for all fixes..

beta2 Improvements

soapUI 1.6 beta2 introduces a large number of fixes and many minor improvements:

  • Syntax highlighting in groovy editor
  • Improved memory management under long running tests
  • Support for external log4j configuration
  • Greatly improved Groovy script performance and memory usage
  • Undo/Redo in most editors
  • Extended Property-Expansion to allow specification of step and property
  • New tabbed layout mode for request/response editors
  • UI "modernization"

More Bugfixes from soapUI 1.5


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