The interface is very good. 

The solution is scalable.

It can scale well.

You don't need too many staff members to set up the solution. 

I like the write and read files which save execution inputs and outputs and can be stored in a local system. The solution also has a comparison feature that works well. Another good feature is the broad Rational Integration Tester and I like the API testing or microservice testing which is very cool. The solution has key store use for coding and decoding which is useful. You can also automate your request parameters in a broader view, which is great. You can take data from Excel, from tables, or from the database. 

It is very easy to understand. 

We can do a lot with it. Since this is a commercial tool, we can have more functionality in place. 

It covers more things like ADI and APIs, et cetera. 

Everything is in one place, right there, so you don't need to go anywhere. With one single tool, you have everything you need. 

You can even test the UI as well.

The initial setup is very easy.

There is nice functionality under the Service Virtualization feature. 

The solution is stable.

Technical support is helpful.

This product easily scales.

Parasoft actually provides very extensive coverage. For example, in SAP applications, we have various EDIs, and integrated development. That also is supported by Parasoft. In the market, we don't have many of the tools there to test those things. It's nice to be able to with this product.

Parasoft SOAtest allows you to do custom rule-checking and build waivers. Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports.

In-built rules and checks are very helpful in SW SQA.

• Has the ability to add regression controls and scripts in different languages for parts of the test script.

• Regression controls help to create a baseline response and ignore the dynamic values, so we can compare against any future builds. We can tell the impact of any change right away. We can tell which APIs we need to focus on for the API backward compatibility. This feature was not found in any other product that I have used.
• The scripting support provided for Java scripts and languages that rely on Java is very helpful. This skill is easy to find in the industry.

• Diff control tool
• Reporting
• Different service types of support (SOAP, REST, SAP RFC, and UI recording)
• Third-party tool integration: GitHub and Jenkins.
• Plug and play
• Service virtualization
• Marketplace

We do a lot of web services testing and REST services testing. That is the focus of this product.

It has also enabled easy automation and concentration.

Working with the Parasoft team was very easy for us. They helped us get some of the solution customized, in terms of the things we needed, such as LDAP coding. We needed a special coding for that and we worked along with Parasoft to get that done successfully.

The primary use for us is the Web Services layer.

1. Parasoft SOA test tool is very good for webservices automation.

2. It provides support for a variety of protocols including JSON.

3. It also provides multiple language support, such as Jython, Phython, Java, Ruby, and Javascript, whichever the tester is comfortable to plug and play with.

4. It is more user friendly when compared to other webservice automation tools.

5. This tool provides a variety of data sources including bean wizard and writable data source.

SOAtest is, at its base, a collection of tools that can be combined to generate test scenarios.

Input data can be gathered from any possible source from web GUIs, databases, Excel, and files and is used in SOAP/REST tools and web browser tools. The output of those tests can be saved in files and databases.

Every imaginable source in the entire world of information technology can be accessed and used.

The following features are particularly valuable to us:

• Generating SOAP/REST requests
• Validating responses against WSDL
• Scripting parts of an XML request
• Accessing DBs with JDBC
• Jenkins Continuous Integration
• Regression test automation
• Modular scenario setup

• Tool offers easy ability to rapidly set up functional test scenarios
• The tool interface is very user friendly and the user guide is a great help
• Tool allows custom scripting and integrates well with most frequently used Source Control tools
• Utilizing features that support Data Driven testing and E2E has increased efficiencies drastically

Automated execution and chaining of test validators is the most valuable feature; it is easily extensible via the built-in custom scripting API.

The most valuable features are the Browser Playback tool for recording and playing web scenarios (Web UI testing), and the messaging client for sending SOAP calls and for validating responses.

• API support for JSON and REST payload
• Virtualization
• Complete visibility of all the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the testing of software servers and environment

• 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

• Fast and easy automated tests for UI
• Interfaces (SOAP, REST)
• Additional database queries
• Easy validations on responses (soap, rest, json, sql, Gui)

Most valuable for us is the combination of all these items in one solution for us. Broad user story scenario's from A to Z, though a chain of systems, including test data prerequisites.
The next most valuable benefit over the past year is the possibility to use the tooling for continuous testing purposes, using the server-side run option 'as a web service' for (nightly) batch runs.

• Being able to load existing .EDN and .XML messages and translate them into segments. I can use them to automate the generation of new messages.
• Generating new messages, based on the existing .EDN and .XML messages, is a crucial part or the testing project that I’m currently in.

For integration tests, it’s hard to set up component tests due to dependencies. This means you cannot test without using the other components in the loop. The combination of SOATest + Virtualize gives us the opportunity to do this much easier and also to test very early in the development cycle (#Fail Fast, #Fail Early).

They have a feature where they can record traffic and create tests on the report traffic. That is one of the most valuable features that we've found. So we can run our UI automation tests and directly create services tests from that, which is really, really helpful.

XML assertions, XML data bank, various tools available internallly

I have used SOATest 9.6 and 9.8 version in my project for automating the webmethods. It is widely recognized as the leading enterprise-grade solution for API testing and API integrity. Thoroughly test composite applications with robust support for REST and web services.

The facilities for testing API’s (services, REST API’s, messaging clients, etc..). Especially the features for parametrizing requests and checking responses are very powerful. But the product really shines in end-to-end testing, not only because of all the built-in tools supporting this, but also because of the great extensibility of the tool.

If you want something that’s not provided out of the box, then you can write it yourself and integrate it with SOAtest.

As an expert user, you can accomplish a lot with this tool.

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.

Automatic testing is the most valuable feature.