Parasoft SOAtest Reviews

We use Parasoft SOAtest for API testing and service virtualization with responder setup. Service virtualization is very helpful in our testing. When any downstream system is not available or we are not able to replicate the exact error in the real world, we virtualize and use the virtualized APIs for those purposes.

The best feature of Parasoft SOAtest is the extension tool where we can write our custom scripts. If automation needs any kind of customization, we can integrate with different languages and customize as per our needs.

It helps in a very positive way where things are not available beforehand; we can test with service virtualization. The tool is very interactive and easy to use, which has impacted our testing efficiency and cost positively.

Automation reduces manual efforts significantly. Service virtualization allows us to mimic the behavior and test particular functionality when any component or downstream system is not available. These are the main benefits I have seen from using Parasoft SOAtest.

The advantages include the custom tool and the extension tool where you can write scripts in different languages such as Groovy, Java, and Jython.

One improvement would be to integrate it with modern technologies such as AI, so we can generate test cases by providing the details so that it can generate the structure, and later the person working can modify and enhance it.

We can add more customized tools, and reporting can be enhanced. Currently, the reporting part is at a step level, and it does not give details for a particular test case, so improvements in those areas would be beneficial.

There are performance issues where the tool crashes sometimes. In particular use cases with numerous steps, it experiences crashes. I have encountered stability and performance issues with it.

I have been working with Parasoft SOAtest for more than four years.

There are performance issues where the tool crashes sometimes. In particular use cases with numerous steps, it experiences crashes. I have encountered stability and performance issues with it.

Parasoft SOAtest is scalable in terms of functionality and capabilities.

I have escalated some queries to the technical support team. It was an in-house team, and I did not reach out to Parasoft directly.

Positive

I used SOAPUI tool from Smartbear and IBM RIT before Parasoft SOAtest. We switched from Smartbear and IBM technologies to Parasoft SOAtest as we migrated from the IBM tool.

The initial setup of Parasoft SOAtest was straightforward based on my experience.

The deployment was handled in-house without using an integrator, reseller, or consultant.

Parasoft SOAtest is definitely useful and saves time regarding measurable benefits and cost-effectiveness. For example, tasks that previously took four or five minutes can now be completed in 20 to 30 seconds with the help of the tool.

I am not involved in the pricing aspect, setup cost, or licensing cost of Parasoft SOAtest. Our dedicated tools and support teams handle those aspects.

The RIT tool had a good feature where you could see the graphical flow, which I have not found in Parasoft SOAtest. The visual representation in RIT showing how different components interact is a key difference between Parasoft SOAtest and the IBM or Smartbear products.

The decision to switch from IBM to Parasoft SOAtest was made at the enterprise level. Organizations with complex API flows can definitely benefit from Parasoft SOAtest. With some customization, it can work exceptionally well and will reduce manual efforts significantly. I rate Parasoft SOAtest a seven out of ten.

The most common use case for my customers implementing Parasoft SOAtest is that they want to increase the quality of the application.

Parasoft SOAtest provides end-to-end testing capabilities to my customers because they have five applications, and they convert from manual testing to automation testing.

The most helpful and useful features of Parasoft SOAtest are the logic test and the performance test.

Parasoft SOAtest improves the quality of the application, increases security and security compliance, and it is a cost-effective tool. It's suitable for my customers and they find it very appropriate.

In terms of improvements for Parasoft SOAtest, some features could be added or perhaps existing areas could be improved, such as lowering prices.

I've been working with it for around two years.

I have contacted Parasoft's technical support team, and I would describe them as helpful enough for my customers. I am satisfied with the support that I'm receiving.

On a scale of one to ten, I give Parasoft support a 10.

Positive

It takes about a week to deploy Parasoft SOAtest.

After that, the customer can set it up to use.

We have many customers, but with Parasoft SOAtest, we just focus on .NET, Java, and PHP protocols and message formats.

For deployment, it runs on-premise with Parasoft SOAtest.

The transition from manual testing can be challenging, and it's the first time they're using automation testing with Parasoft SOAtest.

For the tool itself, Parasoft SOAtest, I would rate it as great with an overall rating of 10 out of 10.

We have a payment switch, so we handle many message protocols such as ISO 8583 and SOAP. Our focus isn't much on GUI testing. Mainly, we concentrate on the transactions going to the bank and back to the terminal, heavily utilizing the part of the system that requires a JBoss license.

One of the most valuable features I found in Parasoft SOAtest is its ability to extend the product. When we acquired it, we made some changes to files dealing with protocol structures and created cryptography tools for integration. Additionally, Parasoft SOAtest is very good at ensuring tests don't pass or fail until they genuinely pass or fail, as opposed to previous tools like Quick Test Pro. This ensures more accurate testing results.

One area that could use improvement is the cryptography capabilities in Parasoft SOAtest. It did not support enough of the protocols or cryptography formats we needed, which led us to create our own solutions.

I guess I would have to say five years.

Parasoft provides very good support.

Positive

Before using Parasoft SOAtest, we used Quick Test Pro or Unified Functional Tests. This was mainly a GUI testing tool, requiring us to create and maintain DLLs to communicate directly with the payment switch. Parasoft SOAtest eliminated this burden as it directly supports our requirements.

The initial setup was likely more complex than usual due to our need for custom changes to certain protocols. We had to load different JARs on the system to handle these changes. Overall, unless you have special requirements, it is not hard to set up. It doesn’t require programming experience, though it might need some scripting for more advanced needs.

We found Parasoft SOAtest to be quick in building up test patterns, allowing us to create complex tests efficiently. However, it lacks a testing metrics system.

Parasoft SOAtest is expensive, but it was acquired because the company was dissatisfied with Quick Test Pro. The new management does not want subscription tools around, aiming for scripted tests using JavaScript.

Compared to other solutions I've used, I'd rate Parasoft SOAtest as an eight or nine. I would recommend it to other companies, especially for its versatility in handling various requirements. The product rating I would give is 8.5.

We use Parasoft SOAtest for automotive compliance and sanity-checking scores.

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.

Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings. Going through that is a challenge. It only happens in the initial stage when we are setting up the tool, but it can be improved.

Parasoft SOAtest could add code coverage, which will help us do the coverage in a single tool.

I have been using Parasoft SOAtest for five years.

Parasoft SOAtest is quite a stable solution.

Parasoft SOAtest is a scalable solution. In my team, six people are using the solution.

Parasoft SOAtest provides good technical support, but we've had some delays in the past with support tickets.

Neutral

Parasoft SOAtest’s initial setup is easy.

Deploying the solution takes a couple of hours. One person from IT and one from engineering are needed to deploy the solution.

The solution is deployed on the resident server. It is easy to maintain the solution, and only one person is needed for its maintenance.

Parasoft SOAtest is a good tool. It helps in efficiency, and it's faster to get the core compliance to automotive.

Overall, I rate Parasoft SOAtest an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for API testing for banking clients.

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.

UI testing should be more in-depth. Right now, they only have one feature: record and play. We need to have a bit more in terms of functionality. We hope they will improve on this in the future. 

I've been using the solution for more than eight years. 

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution scales well. You can easily use it across multiple applications, and you can link it with your CI/CD pipeline. 

We have 400 to 500 people using the solution. Most of them are associated with QA.

This is a commercial tool, so they have very nice customer support. If you write any query to their system or if you send an email to them, you'll get a reply as soon as possible. They'll not take more than 24 hours to respond to you, so they're actually quite responsive and fast.

Neutral

The solution offers a very simple, straightforward setup. You just need to install it and get a license. Once it is up and running, you can directly use all of its functionalities. 

The initial setup was very fast and only took 15 to 20 minutes. 

The price is average. It isn't overly expensive. 

We are a customer and end-user. 

This is actually a very reliable tool. If a person is new and they don't know the coding, they can still start with this. You can, of course, write code. If you don't want to write code, you can also add validations. I'd recommend it to other companies, especially if they have a new or young team, as there isn't too much coding involved, and team members can easily train themselves in terms of how to use the product. It's easy to learn.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. In the single tool, you have different functionalities for testing different implementations, SOAP services, REST services, ADIs, and messages queues. You also have functional testing, performance testing, service virtualization, and data development. Everything is in a single tool. It's great.

Our primary use case is for Driver and Firmware SQA. This is a pre-requirement for ASIL-certified SW component.

The tool is part of Automated Code Flow. It helps in SQA and Automotive Certification.

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

The summary reports could be improved because sometimes it is not very concise. The waiver process can also be improved because Parasoft SQAtest doesn't have a method to waive off one rule. Additionally, adding some guidance on providing standard templates could be helpful for new engineers or in complexity reduction. It could be sustained in a better way because it currently just gives the number that is a level of looping or callings. Hence, if something can be improved to refactor the code, then it should be code restructuring and all the information that can be provided to look at the complexity of the code.

We have been using this solution for approximately five years or more in our organization.

I rate stability an eight out of ten.

I rate scalability an eight out of ten.

The customer service and support are satisfactory.

Neutral

The initial setup was long but it was not complex. There were a lot of things we needed to do that took a long time. As a result, deployment took approximately six months.

We implemented it with an in-house team.

We have seen a return on investment. It's in the right direction for code implementation to complexity reduction, and as a tool, it helps with reducing a lot of manual effort.

There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten. The solution is good but the report generation system can be improved.

We are a large company based in India. The primary use case of this solution is for our REST architecture. Parasoft uses different languages like JSON, XML and SORBS. It's like an API testing tool and can be used for both automation and manual testing. We are customers of Parasoft and I'm a senior software engineer.

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. 

From an automation point of view, it should have better clarity and be more user friendly. Some aspects were difficult and therefore less useful for us, perhaps we lack the coding knowledge on that. 

I've been using this solution for about two years.

The stability of the solution is very good. 

We haven't done much scaling, there are 40 people in my team using the solution and maybe another 10 throughout the company. 

The solution is installed in our system and requires setting up a workspace. There's no deployment process as such, it's just a matter of installing it.  

I don't know how beneficial or how profitable the solution will be. I think that requires a long-term perspective. 

In general, this is a hassle free, user friendly tool and it doesn't require much knowledge if you're using the manual testing. Automated testing is also good but requires some knowledge in that field. It has some great features. It's a good tool compared to some of the other paid tools; input and output can be stored before extension and there is also a verification assessment that can be implemented by using some different methodologies inside the tool. If the licensing cost is suitable then I recommend this solution. If you have automation people with in-depth knowledge in coding that will be helpful. 

I rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

The solution is primarily used by clients for testing, such as load testing. 

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. 

The performance could be a bit better. It uses up a lot of resources, like memory.

It can be a bit difficult to set up.

The support could be a bit better.

It is expensive. 

I used the solution for about two years. 

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten in terms of stability. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The product is very scalable. I'd rate its ability to extend seven out of ten.

We tend to work with medium to enterprise-sized organizations. 

Technical support needs work. There are not too many people in our region. We have difficulty with communication and getting someone to handle issues. 

Negative

The initial setup is quite difficult. I'd rate it one out of ten, with one being the most difficult. If you want to integrate with CI/CD tools, then the configuration needs to be aligned with an existing environment. If we are using a lot of tests, we must configure them appropriately. 

On one project, it took about a month to deploy it. 

We did not need that many team members to set up the solution and maintain it. We had three people to deploy it, including configuration and documentation reporting. We had two people there to manage the maintenance part. 

The pricing is okay. I'd rate the affordability seven out of ten. It's a bit expensive. It's not the cheapest option. 

We pay a yearly licensing fee. The price is around $5,000 USD.

I'm an integrator. 

I would recommend the solution.

I'd rate the product five out of ten. 

We use a lot of tools from Parasoft toolset, but with SOAtest specifically, we use it for creating and running integration tests.

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.

The product is very slow to start up, and that is a bit of a problem, actually. It is not as fast and it's a bit clunky, especially if you use it for the whole day or for a long time, it doesn't save the data, for example. So, it's a bit clunky and slow.

The scalability is good.

The stability is good. Currently, in our organization, we have about twelve to fifteen people using the solution and as the organization grows, and the "number of people" requirement is growing, we have plans to increase our usage. We also plan to move to other areas and try to get other people to use it as well. We do plan to increase the usage in the next one or two years.

The technical support is very good. Any time we have any issues and we raise a question, we get fast answers and we get fairly good answers, because being a licensed tool, we don't get a lot of online applications, but if you raise a request, support is pretty good.

The initial setup was fairly straightforward, easy to install, and easy to get the license keys and use them. It's very easy.

They do have a confusing licensing structure. Their licensing structure is really complex and being able to find out the right product for you, for an organization specifically, is a bit harder, but once you find the thing, their scalability and stability is pretty good. 

It's not a simple licensing model. It's not a licensing model that just, "do this and you get this", it's a bit more complicated and quite complex. For a person who is not used to this at all, it's a bit complex.

We did evaluate the other options in the market, Tosca and SoapUI, which we evaluated. Ultimately, we went with this tool.

It is a good solution, and if you're looking to migrate from an existing toolset as well, it's a pretty good solution. It is quite vast, and they have a lot of other toolsets in there. It has a lot of other toolsets like virtualize which is really helpful. The toolset is really good, I'm really impressed with it.

In the base licensing, we would like to have CLI support included because CLI is the most basic stuff that we need. Currently, it's a separate licensing that we need for that. If I'm getting an application and I need to use it. I would like to use the command line interface as well. I would expect that to be part of the base licensing.

I would rate this solution at an eight and a half out of ten.

The primary use case for adopting Parasoft SOAtest is to test web services/middleware testing (SOAP/REST/MQ/SAP RFC/EDI/FTP). 

Inbuilt support:

• REST: WADL and JSON.
• SOAP: WSDL.
• SAP RFC
• Message queuing supported: JMS, MQ, and NET WCF.
• Protocols supported: TCP/IP, FTP, EDI, WSDL, WADL, WS-*, UDDI, RMI, EJB, webMethods, TIBCO, SMTP, and custom.
• Languages Supported: Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Jython
• Virtualization
• Third-party tool integration (plug and play)
• Stored procedure testing and DB validation
• UI recording through Selenium WebDriver.


• I've used this solution for more than 6.7 years.

Parasoft SOAtest has improved the quality of our automated web services, which can be easily implemented through service chaining and service virtualization. 

The best feature to integrate with third party tools is the integrated plug and play without any rework, which makes it more valuable than any other tools. 

Parasoft SOAtest has more visibility in regards to testing support data and reporting mechanisms.

Through Parasoft SOATest, we can automate our scenarios in a data driven format, which shows there is no rework on scripts. We only need to update the test data and run for a number of scenarios.

Advantageous Points:

• Easy handling of RESTful APIs/SOAP calls.
• Getting the data on the API performance side, such as response time and segregation of failed API issues based on returning code captured by fault injections.
• Comparison of current responses with baseline response to figure out issues in case of failure with an exact location point.

• 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

Reports could be customized and more descriptive according to the user's or company's requirements.                                     

No issues.

No issues.

I have had an awesome experience while working with the customer service/technical support teams. They have resolved issues within a day or two.

If issues are reported to the Parasoft Support Team, they will resolve them by taking it to t-con or v-con. Also, they are very supportive and well-versed with the proper information.

We have been using this solution for more than 6.7 years. 

I have used other solutions as well, but I did not get proper support during our testing due to the constraints for testing in particular areas.

It is simple to do the setup starting from installation until usage. It does not require any specific skill (i.e., it is the same as any other tool installation).

They were well-versed with the proper information. 

We are completed satisfied with Parasoft SOAtest. The ROI is more than 95%.

It is a commercial tool. The license price is a little expensive, but it provides a better outcome in terms of the end-to-end automation process.

While evaluating tools for web service testing, I tried different solutions (freeware and highly-used), but they did not provide some mechanism/features that I could test my respective scenarios to FTP, EDI, MQ, and even SOAP calls. Because of this, I moved back to the existing solution.

I have been using this solution for more than six years. I have not found any issues while doing automation.