The first essential piece of API readiness is making sure that your API does what it is supposed to do and returns the data it's expected to return. With SoapUI NG Pro, you can:
- Create tests directly from Swagger and other popular API description formats
- Analyze your functional test coverage to know what you're missing
- Run ad-hoc tests without having to maintain temporary API client code
- Use the command-line to hook your tests to your build system
- Quickly flip between multiple environments: development, testing, staging, etc.
- Test REST, SOAP, and other protocols in a single, unified framework
Using realistic, dynamic data in your functional API tests is critical to covering boundary conditions, positive/negative testing, and truly simulating the way your consumers interact with your APIs in the real world. SoapUI NG Pro saves you invaluable amounts of time by enabling you to:
- Use external data sources to keep your tests and data more maintainable
- Avoid having to repeat tests for different scenarios by using multiple data sets
- Validate results using data from either a database, file, or prior response
- React quickly when new cases arise by simply creating a new data sets, not tests
Look, the world is a complicated place. Sometimes your APIs are too. That's why with SoapUI NG Pro, we've made it as easy as possible to create test scenarios by providing design tools that use point-and-click shortcuts to simplify advanced functionality down to a few clicks.
- Import API descriptions like Swagger and others to rapidly build out API tests
- Record API calls based on real-world web and mobile apps using API discovery
- Use property transfer to extract data from one response for use in a later request
- Avoid complex scripting by building XPath and/or JSON-Path statements graphically
Creating API tests manually based on a written description can be time-consuming and inaccurate. With SoapUI NG Pro, you can use our API Discovery feature to find APIs and generate test structures for them. You can also easily refactor your tests when any of your APIs change.
- Use API descriptions like Swagger to ensure that you've got full test coverage
- Capture API traffic from a website or switch to proxy mode for mobile devices
- Use our refactoring capabilities to update your tests when API definitions change
Who’s responsible for delivering high quality APIs on your team? Increasingly, the answer is: everyone. Developers are on the hook for shipping great code, testers are in charge of comprehensive quality validation, and operations teams are responsible for making sure things work around the clock.
But quality starts with good design, and SmartBear knows that the quickest way to making all teams more efficient is to squash problems earlier on in the API delivery lifecycle. That’s why Ready! API comes fully equipped to integrate the varying skill sets on your team with:
- Graphical API testing tools like SoapUI NG
- Command-line support for automated regression testing
- Results export to popular M2M (jUnit, XML) and other common formats
- SDK and IDE support for developer-first testing patterns
