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What is ReadyAPI?
ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in…
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ReadyAPI - the first choice for API automation
API testing made simple
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Speeding up QA tasks
ReadyAPI : Good Tool
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Single Effective Solution for Various Aspects of API Development, Validation and Testing!
Features of ReadyAPI Over Other Prodcuts
ReadyAPI - quick, easy and highly functional
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ReadyAPI - Must have tool for API testing
Our main objective is to test services across many environments, also we …
My ReadyAPI experience
- It is used by my project
- It helps us with automating our APIs
Great product, if you're willing to put the work in
When new functionality is implemented and is exposed via …
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What is ReadyAPI?
ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to…
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SoapUI and its Pro version, ReadyAPI, are widely used tools for integrating, verifying, and testing web services. They are highly scalable and configurable, allowing for custom test script creation and automation of various test activities. Users have found SoapUI useful in validating complex analysis platforms, establishing baselines for customization, and verifying APIs across multiple products with different interfaces like SOAP, REST, AMF, and JDBC.
Yahoo's Technical Account Management team relies on SoapUI to analyze SOAP messages and troubleshoot issues with ad platforms. Developers, integrators, and technical product managers use SoapUI for testing, automation, and support purposes. ReadyAPI is the go-to tool for API testing, making it easy to create and manage tests. It helps in verifying breakages, tracing back problems to ensure correct data returns, validating endpoint functionality, and load testing with specific scenarios using production data.
ReadyAPI supports API testing throughout the digital transformation process from prototyping to deployment. It is also used for API test automation and integration with Jenkins. Moreover, it assists in importing and structuring web services, API mockups, functional testing, security testing, deploying code to the cloud using containers, and integrating with third-party tools like Bamboo. With its comprehensive features for SOAP and REST service testing, ReadyAPI is recommended for a wide range of API testing needs.
Swagger Integration: Many users have praised the ability of SoapUI and ReadyApi to read in endpoints for a restful web service via a Swagger page or definitions file. This feature has been described as extremely helpful, with reviewers appreciating the time-saving aspect of not having to figure things out directly or rely on specs to build their requests. Additionally, the ability to easily update endpoints when they change was seen as a valuable feature.
Groovy Functions: Users have found the addition of groovy functions in SoapUI and ReadyApi to be very useful. They appreciate being able to use a programming language with Java libraries, which provides them with much more flexibility in how they process results and build follow-up requests.
Auto-generation of Test Cases: The auto-generation of test cases in SoapUI Pro has received high praise from users. It gives them a good head start on their testing efforts by building a set of tests that cover at least the happy path scenarios. Users also appreciate the visual guide provided by the test case GUI, which helps them structure their suites and scenarios effectively.
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- Lacking User Interface and Experience: Some users have found SoapUI's user interface to be confusing, old-fashioned, and not user-friendly. They have expressed the need for enhancements in terms of design and usability.
- Slow Performance: Several users have experienced slow performance with SoapUI, particularly when loading projects, switching between tabs, and during startup. They have also encountered errors related to insufficient memory, resulting in frustration and delays.
- Limited JMS Support and Third-Party Tools Dependency: Users have mentioned that SoapUI relies on an outdated 3rd party program called HermesJMS for JMS interactions. This limitation restricts their ability to run parallel test suites efficiently. Additionally, they have pointed out the limited support for JMS and the need for third-party tools for AMF method discovery.
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(1-25 of 66)- Test Suite Management
- Test Step Updates
- Import APIs from SwaggerHub
- Would love to see some built in groovy scripts for easy addition and editing
- The documentation can be lacking, ex: Wildcards and how to implement, as well as groovy scripts
- Love the dark theme, but wish I could pick colors, as some of the functions are hard to read
ReadyAPI - the first choice for API automation
- Scriptless
- Data driven testing
- API Reporting dashboard
- Security and Performance testing
- Run Test suites in parallel
- Property Transfer
- Only supports Groovy script
- Licensing cost
- Limited options available to generate data using Data source
API testing made simple
- It makes API automation seamless, easy, and efficient.
- Performance testing, distributing load, and key performance indicators are very well put together to help improve the performance of APIs.
- Even non-programmers can quickly ramp up and write efficient automation tests.
- Such a good tool and I love it. There are many open-source tools that do the same and are free.
- Adding visuals to show chaining or dependent apis will be helpful.
- Adding contract testing feature to the toolset will improve the value immensely.
ReadyAPI
- Setting up Endpoints
- Setting up of assertions to check if endpoints are working correctly
- load testing of endpoints
- Ease of use similar to test tools such as test complete
- Groovy script completion for users that do not have Groovy knowledge
- Easier buildup of endpoints like a built in Swagger Inspector
Speeding up QA tasks
- Generating test data
- Reusability of test steps
- Flexibility on creation of assertions
- Running big batches of tests can break the application or freeze the UI interaction
- Creation of result reports
- Version control is not possible (branching, merging, etc.)
ReadyAPI : Good Tool
- API
- Alerts/Notifications
- Productivity analysis
- Test management
- Data extraction
- VSC doesn't work well
- No connector to NoSQL database
- Performance
Software QA Manager
- allows for data driven testing
- allows functional tests to be run at a project, test suite, and test case level, making it very flexible
- security testing is made quick and easy
- The copy/paste functionality in the requests, results and data source grids has been lost and does slow down work.
- The tool is memory heavy and memory usage could be improved.
- I have some long calls that "work" but don't respond before the UI times out. These are requests I am using to stuff variables for the subsequent requests. It should be possible to extend the wait time of the tool, as long as the Request is working.
To ReadyAPI or Not
- data validation
- load testing
- endpoint availability
- change ability between the free and paid version
- better tutorials
- better bulk processing
Single Effective Solution for Various Aspects of API Development, Validation and Testing!
- API contract validation
- API load testing by simulating simultaneous virtual users
- External credentials validation
- RestAPI interfacing and testing
- Clarity in API call failures
- Better UI
Features of ReadyAPI Over Other Prodcuts
- Load testing feature is readily available with less effort to configure
- Automate validation of response using assertion makes my work so easy
- ReadyAPI is easy to use, user friendly compare to many other leading API testing tools
- More customization on reporting would be more useful
- Frequent updates and frequent changes in look and feel is something annoying at times, but not always
- Customization of dashboard would be greatly helpful to manage our workspace and projects effectively
ReadyAPI - quick, easy and highly functional
- Easy to use JSON path exploration to find the correct element to assert
- Easy to re-use SOAPUI Pro tests in the LOADUI feature
- Easy to integrate with Jenkins
- Would be very handy to have some "canned" groovy scripts for more complex assertions - we had to create our own
- API coverage reports just don't seem to make sense
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- Easy to write REST requests
- Easy to get values from the responses between multiple test steps
- Easy to copy existing test cases
- It is really hard to merge the changes of two different developers
ReadyAPI - Must have tool for API testing
Our main objective is to test services across many environments, also we need scripts to generate data, etc. That's why we started using ReadyAPI, which has different environment support and is easily changed in one click. ReadyAPI also supports Groovy scripts and WSDL.
ReadyAPI is a great tool to create test steps and their flows also has a nice assertions system.
- Multi Environment Support
- Several test cases and its flows management
- Scripts support
- Complex assertion system
- GIT, Jenkins, Docker Support
- Dark Mode
- Simple test cases copy paste functionality
- Changing several assertions same time
The disadvantage of ReadyAPI is that sometimes it's not stable and it crashes and if your changes are not saved, it's all lost. I would love to see a recovery feature added to it. Also, it doesn't have dark mode support which really strains my eyes.
My ReadyAPI experience
- It is used by my project
- It helps us with automating our APIs
- Saves time, manual effort and repetition
- Available plugins, though some I know are not yet supported
- It has a good logging mechanism
- UI needs to be improved. It's sometimes unstable.
- Plugin for Jira Cloud available, but not supported. This creates confusion
- For me, takes very long time to launch.
Great product, if you're willing to put the work in
When new functionality is implemented and is exposed via web services, both development teams, and testing teams, use ReadyAPI to test the functionality against expected results.
LoadUI Pro is also used, in a more limited capacity, by testing teams, to conduct performance testing of the web service.
- The ability to be data-driven is a huge asset.
- Cross-compatible with many protocols - it's not just SOAP-based.
- Provides a full eco-system of products. Very feature-rich.
- Solid Enterprise integration, including singles-sign-on, and OAuth2
- Pricing. It's both complicated to understand how it's priced, and it's very costly.
- The UI is very outdated. It's not a friendly user experience
- Lack of connectors for different, popular products and platforms
If you're looking for something lightweight, that can start providing value right away without too much setup, then you may be disappointed with ReadyAPI.
Feeling good while working on ReadyAPI, but yes, a few points for improvements are there.
- Its drag n drop feature is easy to use.
- Data generator in data source is one of the best features of ReadyAPI
- Hierarchy of arranging test suites/cases/steps helps a lot in managing the stuff
- Should be able to add test step like REST even when there's no API added in the project.
- Its integration with GIT is very annoying, especially when you want to delete uncommitted changes and pull latest.
- Sometimes ReadyAPI made some changes of its own. These are also very annoying.
- Automated suites for regression and smoke.
- Integration with GIT and other majorly known repo.
- Integration of CICD with DEVOPS and other services.
API Testing Made Easy
- Ability to use test data from previous requests
- Quick and easy to discover and connect to service endpoints
- When using Forms within a Test Step, doesn't also keep the values entered
This application is being used across multiple projects for building Regression/Functional Testing suite and load testing as well.
- Easy to use.
- Reporting.
- Creation of test cases.
- Adding validation.
- Execution.
- Execution on multiple environments with less/no changes.
- More helpful documents.
- Use of multiple scripting language (adding code ) for validation.
- Performance when steps or projects grows in a workspace.
2. Performance degrades, when steps grows or multiple projects are added in a workspace.
3. Version support, in case someone is using older version, the application stops proper execution. A pop up should be shown with the changes in newer version.
4. Also, updating version sometimes removes our prior many changes.
5. Sometimes even though we save steps etc., the same is not saved and need to redo it.
Best tool used
- Easy to learn.
- Friendly user experience.
- A lot of documentation.
Best all-in-one solution for API testing!
- Ease of use (ability to automatically import API definitions, Jenkins integration for running in the pipeline).
- Detailed test reports (allow to easily identify weak spots during both functional and performance testing).
- One platform for all tests (allows to closely couple and reuse existent tests).
- Sometimes Ready API Test performs poorly or freezes when REST response contains a lot of data
- Performance Tests documentation could be updated to describe different assertion points with examples of usage.
- Ability to disable certain test steps only in the Performance Tests section, while leaving them on for Functional Tests could be added.
ReadyAPI - My Feedback
- Working with multiple scripting languages, firstly groovy
- So handy for API mocking
- It is easy to automate API tests
- Usability can be improved. Sometimes doing simple something can be more complex
- There are some performance problems. It uses more resources on computer.
Let's Get the API Ready
- Create virtualised services
- Test the APIs and integrate in CI CD pipelines
- Development teams use to define the skeleton of services along with OpenAPI / Swagger
- Usability of GUI screens can be improved
- Sharing of API projects across teams, similar to Postman, can be implemented
Nice tool to automate API functional testing
- Functional test automation
- WYSIWYG interface for data driven testing
- Matured product
- Can extend functionality with scripting
- Need phone support
- More examples of groovy script for advanced users
- Decrease load time
- Ability to connect to Google Sheets as data source/data sink
- Import service definitions for quick discovery
- Send requests and inspect responses
- Set up test suites/cases
- Code generation is out dated
- XML generation can be a bit disorganized at times
QA review
- Easy to import swagger API definition
- Easy to clone and modify existing test cases
- Ability to check formatted API response
- XML format is hardly readable
- Properties are stored as strings only
- Groovy console has small amount of prompts