Parasoft SOAtest Reviews

1. Event Monitoring is a valuable feature in SOATest that helped us in validating the back-end requests for mappings and transformations.

2. Variety of tools like diff tool, date math tool, xml assertor, xml transformer, custom extensions, etc. make our life easy.

3. Structural and functional reports, that helps easy reporting and recording of results.

SOATest provided a platform for automated testing and creating an enriched automated regression suite.

The need to refresh 'Test Case Explorer' when adding a data source or environment file, can be improved.

We've used it for 1.5 years and going

The deployment was quite easy and straightforward.

We didn't encounter any issues with stability.

We didn't encounter any issues with scalability.

Customer Service:

8/10

Technical Support:

8/10

The initial solution available at the clients location was WCFStorm that was completely manual and not very easy to use. When we got a chance to implement the Parasoft toolset, it was pretty obvious that this would make our lives easy.

It totally gives control to the end user to play with data and deploy the changes directly and that reflects in the application.

1 year

There were few hick ups in the beginning but the talented Parasoft support team helped troubleshoot the problem personally.

No

Yes, there were few issues, that caused the Memory out, but was resolved.

Customer Service: 5/5Technical Support: 4/5

Yes, there were few other tools in the plate, but this one stood out to be the best.

• The ability to rapidly set up functional test scenarios using WSDL web service descriptions or XSD message specifications
• The ability to quickly make these test scenarios data driven using one of a variety of Data Sources
• The ability to quickly add validation and verification points in these test scenarios
• The ability to add custom validations and actions to these test scenarios using the integrated scripting environment

As a test consultant, I have been able to deliver high quality automated testing solutions to our clients using SOAtest in a quick manner. For example, I have been able to implement a test suite that automatically generates and executes thousands of test cases directly from formal specifications for a web service validating fixed length messages on a large number of syntactic, semantic and business rules.

• The features of SOAtest used for testing (web) applications on user interface level suffice for very basic web applications, but there are better tools on the market.
• The report output could use some work. It contains a lot of technical details which are quite clear to the person or team that implemented the automated tests, but they are not really suited for distribution to, for example, a management team.

I have been using SOAtest for over four years at the time of writing

No

As SOAtest is based on Eclipse, it may consume quite a bit of memory, which can lead to performance and stability issues on lower-end systems.

No.

Customer Service: Good to great, although it helps that I happen to know people at Parasoft personally.Technical Support: Good. The ticketing system on the Parasoft website works well and issues are handled swiftly.

No.

Very straightforward. The product is delivered as a single installer file and the wizard guides you through the installation process easily. The tutorial in the manual helps new users with creating their first tests.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Some best practices I have learned from my own experience:

• There's a myriad of tools available within SOAtest. Learn to know them and how to use them.
• The possibility for additional scripting is very powerful, but only use it when necessary to avoid overly complex test suites.

Disclosure: The company I work for is a Parasoft partner

Recording feature for a web session simulation.

The GUI should get a facelift to make it more user-friendly. In some cases, there are simply too many windows/tabs/etc that make it difficult to get to the info you need.

2 years

Customer Service: ExcellentTechnical Support: Very Good

Automatic testing is the most valuable feature.

Compatibility with HTTP 1.1 and TLS 1.2 needs to be improved.

I have used SOAtest for one year.

We get a lot of time-outs and after we start the run again it goes well.

We have had scalability issues.

I rate technical support 8/10.

It was our customer’s choice to use SOAtest.

The tool is complex.

We followed our customer’s choice.

Think twice before you start with it.

One key feature of using SOAtest tool is that it provided us early entry in testing cycle without any services. SOAtest provided a solution of testing codes and integrated services before any solid application is developed.

Work file [tst] gradually increases in size due to saving or updates of workspace.  I can see a major improvement in that.

7+

No deployment issues.

No issues.

No issues.

Previously used SoapUI.