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SoapUI pros and cons

Vendor: SmartBear
4.3 out of 5

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PROS

SoapUI positively impacts testing processes, enhancing reliability and efficiency.
It allows for API testing during the development process.
SoapUI supports AWS security measures.
It provides the ability to perform mutual SSL authentication using certificates.
Key features include API designing, Property Transfer, and Groovy plugin.

CONS

Collaboration features could be improved, as suites are only locally available.
Needs to be available as a Chrome browser extension.
There are more advanced API testing tools available.
Improvements could be made to enhance SoapUI.
Should include plug-ins to share generated reports via email.
 

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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Find out what your peers are saying about SmartBear, Apache, Parasoft and others in API Testing Tools. Updated: May 2026.
900,644 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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.