Can I use SoapUI opensource to store many requests for many endpoints and to run those requests?
Can I use SoapUI opensource to store many requests for many endpoints and to run those requests and see the results?
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KarelHusa Thank you very much for your reply.
Actually I meant to say if I can store many requests and press a button to run all those requests for many endpoints and store their expected results.
Also what's the difference between opensource and ng pro versions of SoapUI? And I am wondering if I can do all these things with Postman. What are the benefits or advantages of using SoapUI opensource against Postman. And if SoapUI is also good for non-programmers, and good for systematic load and performance testing as well.
SoapUI opensource
With opensource SoapUI you can create a testing project utilizing Groovy scripting to load the requests, expected responses, compare them with actual responses, store the responses and much more you need to achieve. This is very efficient for complex testing requirements. With SoapUI opensource you need to write some code to design a complex testing project, however then you can launch the tests without programming skills.
If you are happy with making the entire test project manually (adding interfaces, messages, assertions etc.) you don't need programming at all. With this approach you can also have many interfaces and many test cases for each of them.
SoapUI NG Pro
SoapUI NG Pro offers a data driven testing functonality, which can be used to loop over sets of data objects. You do not need scripting in this case. So, with the PRO version you can design and launch bulk tests without programming.
In addition you can combine this function with Groovy scripting.
To see other differences between open source and commercial version, I recommend visiting this comparisson chart.
I cannot compare to Postman as I do not use Postman.
KarelHusa Does SoapUI opensource cover categories of tests such as functional, performance, load and stress?
SoapUI opensource provides 3 categories of tests:
- functional (see https://www.soapui.org/functional-testing/getting-started.html)
- load (see https://www.soapui.org/load-testing/getting-started.html)
- security (see https://www.soapui.org/security-testing/getting-started.html)
Functional tests are very versatile and you can customize them according to your needs.
Please note that the documentation describes SoapUI opensource, but also sometimes mentions SoapUI PRO functions (in such cases there is a notice at the beginning of the page).
KarelHusa Thank you for the answers.
Another thing I needed help with is how can I test APIs? Are there any tutorials available? I am trying to send POST request with key and value (in SoapUI opensource) to an endpoint to verify if the returned values of parameters are correct. Could you please push me toward the right direction to accomplish this task?
