soapui is rich in the following five aspects −

• functional testing
• security testing
• load testing
• protocols and technologies
• integration with other tools

let’s learn more about each of these capabilities.

functional testing

• soapui allows the testers to write functional api tests in soapui.

• soapui supports drag-drop feature that accelerates the script development.

• soapui supports debugging of tests and allows testers to develop data driven tests.

• soapui supports multiple environments making it easy to switch among qa, dev, and prod environments.

• soapui allows advanced scripting (the tester can develop their custom code depending on the scenarios).

security testing

• soapui performs a complete set of vulnerability scan.

• soapui prevents sql injection to secure the databases.

• soapui scans for stack overflows, caused by documents huge in size.

• soapui scans for cross-site scripting, which occurs when service parameters are exposed in messages.

• soapui performs fuzzing scan and boundary scan to avoid erratic behavior of the services.

load testing

• soapui distributes the load tests across n number of loadui agents.

• soapui simulates high volume and real-world load testing with ease.

• soapui allows advanced custom reporting to capture performance parameters.

• soapui allows end-to-end system performance monitoring.

protocols & technologies

soapui supports a wide range of protocols −

• soap – simple object access protocol
• wsdl – web service definition language
• rest – representational state transfer
• http – hyper text transmission protocol
• https – hyper text transmission protocol secured
• amf – action message format
• jdbc – java database connectivity
• jms – java messaging service

integration with other tools

• apache maven project
• hudson
• junit
• apache – ant and more….