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SoapUI pros and cons

Vendor: SmartBear
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

SoapUI enhances testing reliability and efficiency, particularly for API testing.
Users can perform AWS security and mutual SSL authentication using SoapUI.
SoapUI includes valuable features such as API designing, Property Transfer, and the Groovy plugin.
Test case creation and API request management are facilitated by organizing into XML folders.
SoapUI empowers teams by making comprehensive API testing possible.

CONS

Collaboration within SoapUI could be improved as test suites are limited to local access.
SoapUI lacks a Chrome browser extension, limiting its usability.
More advanced API testing tools are available, suggesting improvement possibilities for SoapUI.
SoapUI should support plug-ins for report sharing via email.
Scalability is a concern with SoapUI.
 

SoapUI Pros review quotes

PramodChaudharyDarwha - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at TCS
Jun 13, 2026
SoapUI is really great for my team because when we are trying to create test cases and the requests that we are going to send to an API, we can create one SoapUI folder which will be XML and this XML is used by SoapUI itself.
Swapnil Dhabewar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software at Tester
Jul 23, 2026
SoapUI has really made that possible for us.
Mahendra Andhale - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager at Happiest Minds Technologies
Aug 6, 2024
The solution's most valuable features are the designing of API, Property Transfer feature, and Groovy plugin.
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MohammadImran - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 23, 2024
We need to test the APIs as we build them. I use the product for API testing. You can do AWS security in SoapUI. With SoapUI, we can even perform mutual SSL authentication by incorporating certificates into the SoapUI browser. This allows us to send transactions to the backend downstream.
Sofonias Fiseha - PeerSpot reviewer
Application performance tester at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jun 25, 2024
SoapUI is a pretty simple tool.
 

SoapUI Cons review quotes

PramodChaudharyDarwha - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at TCS
Jun 13, 2026
SoapUI is not that scalable.
Swapnil Dhabewar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software at Tester
Jul 23, 2026
If we could have more sharing capability within teams or its own structure, that would help.
Mahendra Andhale - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager at Happiest Minds Technologies
Aug 6, 2024
The solution should include some plug-ins to share the generated reports over email.
Find out what your peers are saying about SmartBear, Apache, Parasoft and others in API Testing Tools. Updated: August 2026.
908,834 professionals have used our research since 2012.
MohammadImran - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 23, 2024
The product needs to be available as an extension for the Chrome browser.
Sofonias Fiseha - PeerSpot reviewer
Application performance tester at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jun 25, 2024
There are more advanced API testing tools than SoapUI, and SoapUI could be made better.