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StaffI graduated in 2007 with a degree in Artificial Intelligence & Cybernetics and started my career in QA during the financial crash (great timing). An early role in accessibility testing led me into a long path across quality engineering, consulting, and advocacy.
Around that time, a few testing tools stood out including AutomatedQA’s TestComplete and Eviware’s SoapUI. SoapUI, in particular, has been a constant throughout my career whenever I’ve needed to work with SOAP APIs.
Despite being less common today, SOAP is still very much out there and often in long-lived systems where “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” applies.
I remember a client project when we had to integrate with a particularly unreliable SOAP service. The saving grace was a SoapUI project provided by the vendor, which gave us everything we needed — endpoints, flows, environments and allowed us to experiment and build a more resilient solution around a flaky API.
Yes, the UI hasn’t changed much over the years, but there’s something reassuring about opening a tool and knowing exactly where everything is, so you can just get on with the job. For those that want the familiarity of the existing SoapUI interface, but with an accessible modern twist, I would recommend checking out ReadyAPI ( SoapUI’s commercial counterpart, once called SoapUI Pro ) as it is the evolution of SoapUI for a modern AI-enabled API testing era.
Yousaf Nabi, Developer Advocate at SmartBear.