[April 09, 2014] |
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SmartBear Software Tames Undocumented REST APIs
BEVERLY, Mass. --(Business Wire)--
SmartBear
Software, the leading provider of software quality and performance
management tools, announced the general availability of SoapUI
5.0 with market leading features to support the growing REST API
testing market, specifically the challenge of undocumented REST APIs.
SoapUI 5.0 adds richer REST testing capabilities including support for
REST Discovery, REST Mocking and OAuth 2.0. REST is the rapidly growing,
predominant method used to build public APIs for Web applications, and
along with SoapUI, shortens learning curves, improves time-to-market and
helps to easily identify bugs.
A common problem with REST APIs is they do not require any documentation
explaining how the API works, the available requests and expected
responses. These problems have created an abundance of undocumented APIs
where functionality is only partially disclosed or not disclosed at all.
Testing these APIs is time consuming, as it requires the user to either
get information from the API developer or the user must try and explore
the API code manually.
"The SoapUI team at SmartBear has outdone themselves with version 5.0,"
said Darin
Weakley, Senior Software Engineer at MapQuest.
"REST Discovery is easy to use and rapidly generates test suites and
cases, allowing me to focus on the data I use for testing as opposed to
service and test generation. I'm thrilled about the release of SoapUI
5.0 and will definitely use this feature in testing our APIs."
New REST Discovery By using SoapUI's REST Discovery, the
user can simply record the interactions and traffic with the API and
automatically add the resources associated with the API into SoapUI.
Further, REST Discovery allows users to create a test suite from the
recorded interactions, saving critical time that would otherwise have
been spent trying to understand the API and setting up the required
tests associated with it. REST Discovery can either record traffic via
SoapUI's internal browser, a proxy, native browsers or even mobile apps.
Any traffic going through the defined proxy is picked up by SoapUI,
where resources are plotted and test suites are set up.
"REST Discovery is a brand new and ground breaking feature which helps
users make sense of all the undocumented APIs out there," said Matti
Hjelm, Product Owner of SoapUI at SmartBear. "It helps users save
precious time and decrease the likelihood of human error when testing.
Combined with the seamless REST Mocking support, it's one of the most
powerful features we've released in recent times."
New REST Mocking In addition to REST Discovery, new SoapUI
Pro 5.0 contains REST Mocking. A REST API, per definition, does not
require specification of what responses certain requests can receive.
Hence, setting up a mock can become a time consuming activity with
having to manually define each response the mocked API should provide.
By first exploring your API using REST Discovery, SoapUI automatically
captures all the responses received. Users then seamlessly create a full
mock - requests, responses and headers - based on recorded interactions.
This, apart from saving time, ensures realistic data is used in the mock.
New OAuth 2 Support SoapUI 5.0 adds support for OAuth
2 protected APIs. SoapUI's OAuth 2 Profiles allow users to easily
set up credentials for users. This allows for quick switching between
different user credentials, saving the hassle of re-entering them
multiple times. Furthermore, through SoapUI's OAuth 2 Flow Automation,
users can set up automatic token refreshment, enabling users to easily
hook OAuth 2 protected API's tests to Continuous Integration
environments.
Pricing and Availability SoapUI Pro is generally available.
Prices start at $449 (399 euros), including REST Discovery, REST
Mocking, and OAuth 2 support. Download a free trial of SoapUI Pro at http://www.soapui.org/.
A new open source version of SoapUI can also be downloaded from the site
with limited functionality.
About SoapUI.org SoapUI.org is the world's largest API
testing community. Operated by SmartBear, it is the home of the open
source product, SoapUI which currently boasts over six million
downloads. SoapUI Pro is the commercial version of SoapUI. For the
latest updates, follow @SoapUI
on Twitter (News - Alert) or visit: http://www.soapui.org/.
SoapUI.org is also home to the API Testing Dojo, a tool agnostic
resource on everything API. Visit: http://www.soapui.org/Dojo.
About SmartBear Software More than one million developers,
testers and operations professionals use SmartBear software tools to
ensure the quality and performance of their APIs, mobile, cloud-based
and Web applications. With five million downloads and counting,
SmartBear products are affordable, easy-to-use and ready for deployment.
Free tools and plug-ins for automation
and performance
testing, code
review and website
monitoring are available for download on the website. Learn more
about SmartBear, the company's award-winning tools or join the active
user community at http://www.smartbear.com,
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