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Today, I will talk to you about how to conduct a comparative analysis of API testing tools SoapUI and Postman. Many people may not know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following content for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

Recently, the company wants to introduce API testing tools, after investigation and understanding, finally decided to make a choice between SoapUI and Postman tools, both tools are well-known in the industry, I believe many people have used both tools.

SoapUI

SoapUI is an open source testing tool that checks, invokes, and implements functional / load / compliance testing of Web Service through soap/http. The tool can be used as a separate test software or integrated into Eclipse,maven2.X,Netbeans and intellij using plug-ins. SoapUI Pro is a commercial non-open source version of SoapUI that implements more functions than open source SoapUI.

Postman

Postman is a powerful tool for debugging HTTP interface created by Postdot Technologies. It was one of the most popular plug-ins in Chrome and has been extended to Mac,Windows and Linux clients.

The function of the software is very powerful, the interface is simple and clear, the operation is convenient and quick, and the design is very humanized. Postman is divided into free version and paid version.

Below, we compare the two tools through a variety of dimensions. I believe that the comprehensive results of these comparative dimensions can bring some inspiration and help to you who are also in the stage of selecting testing tools.

1. Search index

Through Baidu search index, we can see that according to the search trend of nearly one month, the search index of Postman is significantly higher than that of SoapUI (about 5 times), and from the overall trend, the search trend of Postman is still growing, indicating that Postman is more well-known than SoapUI, and there is still potential in the future.

two。 User introduction

SoapUI

Postman

From the point of view of the official users of their respective products, SoapUI is used by more well-known manufacturers.

3. Interface

SoapUI: traditional Windows product interface, using pop-up windows to represent different interfaces, the interface performance is complex

PostMan: use Tab to represent the interface, the interface is simple and easy to use.

4. Function

Test type

Organization: SoapUI is organized in a more complex and flexible way.

SoapUI:

Postman:

5. Interface automation

SoapUI: SoapUI+UnitTest implements interface automation testing and can also be integrated with jenkins.

Postman: Postman + Newman + Jenkins to realize interface automation test

Both support interface automation, and SoapUI has higher coding requirements.

6. Script scalability

SoapUI:Groovy script, JavaScript (after testing, it is found that the support is not good, and the attempt to extract the content returned from the previous request will fail)

Postman:JavaScript

7.Cookie management

SoapUI: it needs to be managed through a Groovy script.

Postman: automatic management of tools

8. Follow redirection (Follow Redirects)

SoapUI: supports setting on each API request.

Postman: unified setting in the system Setting.

9. Environment management

SoapUI: not supported.

Postman: yes, it is convenient for switching and testing in different environments.

10. Teamwork

SoapUI: a project itself is a xml file, but it can be configured into a series of folders, each Case, each Suite is a separate file, so that team collaboration can be done through svn/git. The support is good

Postman: there is a teamwork function, and you need to pay for it. You can also use Imort/Export to file and team work through svn/git, and a Collection can be a file everywhere.

11. Comprehensive evaluation.

SoapUI has one more Soap protocol test than Postman. According to the requirements of the company's API testing, it will be useful if there is a demand, but our company does not need this option.

The function of SoapUI is complex, the interface is realized by multi-window mode, the interaction is complex, the learning cost is high, and there are high requirements for users.

When SoapUI conducts API testing, it sends API requests directly through Java, and the cooperation with Fiddler and other packet grabbing tools requires additional configuration.

The content returned by SoapUI test is not well supported in Chinese and Japanese, and garbled will occur.

SoapUI API testing, automated testing requires stronger programming skills.

Postman is born out of the Chorme plug-in and only supports testing of the Http protocol.

The interface of Postman is in the form of Tab, similar to the operation mode of chrome, the interface is simple, the function design is simple, the organization of the project is only Collection and folder, the concept is simple, easy to learn, easy to use, and the learning cost for the project team is low.

Postman API testing, automatic testing for programming requirements are relatively low, you can select from the testers for training, training can be competent for API testing.

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