Future Plans

1.0 Release plan

The current beta version should be feature-complete; unless anything "aggrevating" shows up the main focus of 1.0 development will be on fixing bugs, refactoring and testing. Hopefully a final version will be available at latest in mid-October (depending on the number of issues arising and how fast they can be fixed).

Feature Wishlist

Obviously, there are a lot of 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!):

  • Performance/Load-testing
  • Validations for WSDL compliance, BP-compliance, 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 / REST support
  • JMS / JBI support
  • Attachement support
  • Eclipse/IDEA/etc plugin
  • etc..

Minor improvements

For those of you aquainted with soapui, the following "fixes" are scheduled for the next minor release (after 1.0).

  • 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)