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154 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for ReadyAPI are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Swagger Integration: Many users have praised the ability of SoapUI and ReadyApi to read in endpoints for a restful web service via a Swagger page or definitions file. This feature has been described as extremely helpful, with reviewers appreciating the time-saving aspect of not having to figure things out directly or rely on specs to build their requests. Additionally, the ability to easily update endpoints when they change was seen as a valuable feature.

Groovy Functions: Users have found the addition of groovy functions in SoapUI and ReadyApi to be very useful. They appreciate being able to use a programming language with Java libraries, which provides them with much more flexibility in how they process results and build follow-up requests.

Auto-generation of Test Cases: The auto-generation of test cases in SoapUI Pro has received high praise from users. It gives them a good head start on their testing efforts by building a set of tests that cover at least the happy path scenarios. Users also appreciate the visual guide provided by the test case GUI, which helps them structure their suites and scenarios effectively.

Reviews

65 Reviews

API testing made simple

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When our organization shifted focus to building software in micro-service-style architecture, we needed a good tool to test the APIs. ReadyAPI was a great solution as it makes automation and performance testing very easy. A lot of tools in the market are good for manual testing but not for automated ones.

Pros

  • It makes API automation seamless, easy, and efficient.
  • Performance testing, distributing load, and key performance indicators are very well put together to help improve the performance of APIs.
  • Even non-programmers can quickly ramp up and write efficient automation tests.

Cons

  • Such a good tool and I love it. There are many open-source tools that do the same and are free.
  • Adding visuals to show chaining or dependent apis will be helpful.
  • Adding contract testing feature to the toolset will improve the value immensely.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have non-programmers and manual testers in the team, ReadyAPI is the best fit for API testing and automation. This will make the testing cycles shorter and improve the quality drastically. On the flip side, if your team has developers and test engineers who can write code, there are many open source solutions out there that can provide more or less all the features.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Quality Assurance (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
4 years of experience

ReadyAPI - the first choice for API automation

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have worked on different API automations like Ready API, Rest Assured, Katalon Studio, Karate etc. And after evaluating different tools we found that ReadyAPI is far superior to other API automation tools. It supports testing for Rest, SOAP, GraphQL, etc. It is a Scriptless API testing tool. Data-driven testing and Security testing are important features of this tool. It also has a feature to measure test coverage. So far Ready API is one of the best API automation tool I have come across in recent times.

Pros

  • Scriptless
  • Data driven testing
  • API Reporting dashboard
  • Security and Performance testing
  • Run Test suites in parallel
  • Property Transfer

Cons

  • Only supports Groovy script
  • Licensing cost
  • Limited options available to generate data using Data source

Likelihood to Recommend

ReadyAPI is one of the best API automation tools. It is a Scriptless tool and requires very less coding expertise while working with groovy scripts in ReadyAPI. It is well suited for testing Rest, SOAP, GraphQL, etc services. Data-driven testing has been made it very easy with various options such as Excel, Database, JSON, etc. Performance testing is also one of the important features of ReadyAPI. It is not suited for Web or Mobile automation. Also not appropriate for mocking the servers
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
1 year of experience

ReadyAPI

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently develop an ERP accounting system that makes use of an API such that third-party systems can integrate with us. Ready API helps us in testing the API from a functional as well as a performance perspective

Pros

  • Setting up Endpoints
  • Setting up of assertions to check if endpoints are working correctly
  • load testing of endpoints

Cons

  • Ease of use similar to test tools such as test complete
  • Groovy script completion for users that do not have Groovy knowledge
  • Easier buildup of endpoints like a built in Swagger Inspector

Likelihood to Recommend

For any application that has any type of API and requires automated testing, Ready API is the ideal solution.
It is critical for API testing. It is not suitable for front end web testing
MM
Mohammed Mitha
CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at CK Services (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
2 years of experience

Speeding up QA tasks

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use ReadyAPI almost daily for API testing and automating our test case suite for future runs. This helps us especially when doing regression testing of many of our components (around 10) and allows us to run the whole suite of +1000 tests in a couple of hours, and this is only for ONE team within the company!

Pros

  • Generating test data
  • Reusability of test steps
  • Flexibility on creation of assertions

Cons

  • Running big batches of tests can break the application or freeze the UI interaction
  • Creation of result reports
  • Version control is not possible (branching, merging, etc.)

Likelihood to Recommend

As a QA Engineer, creating, automating, and running test cases for APIs involves 70% of my working time. For this, ReadyAPI has been an excellent tool to do my tasks in a dynamic and time-saving way. On the other hand, ReadyAPI has presented many challenges when more than one person wants to work on the same project. For this scenario, the tool is not suitable since it doesn't have the ability to create parallel branches and merge them together after working on a project.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
2 years of experience

ReadyAPI : Good Tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ReadyAPI enables our team to create, manage and run automated functional, security, and performance tests of RESTful, SOAP, Kafka, and other web services within a centralized interface, driving thus the quality of APIs.

Pros

  • API
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Productivity analysis
  • Test management
  • Data extraction

Cons

  • VSC doesn't work well
  • No connector to NoSQL database
  • Performance

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for test management.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
1 year of experience

ReadyAPI - An easy to use tool with lots of built in functionality.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ReadyAPI is my go to tool. We do a lot of API testing, and with ReadyAPI the tests are easy to create and manage. The business problems we are able to address using ReadyAPI in conjunction with our CI/CD we can easily verify if a breakage occurs. When our tests start failing, we can easily trace back what the problem is connected to and easily verify whether the data returning is correct or not.

Pros

  • Test Suite Management
  • Test Step Updates
  • Import APIs from swaggerhub

Cons

  • Would love to see some built in groovy scripts for easy addition and editing
  • The documentation can be lacking, ex: Wildcards and how to implement, as well as groovy scripts
  • Love the dark theme, but wish I could pick colors, as some of the functions are hard to read

Likelihood to Recommend

As stated, we do a LOT of API testing, the swaggerhub import makes it easy to add APIs. This is very well-suited, as well as easy management of the steps/cases/suites inside of ReadyAPI. The one thing I do wish ReadyAPI was better suited for is changes to data, we have a lot of test cases in ReadyAPI and if we make a change to how the backend data is structured, one-by-one adjustments need to be made to the steps. Less appropriate, UI testing.
VU
Verified User
Engineer (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
2 years of experience

Software QA Manager

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use ReadyAPI for Functional and Security Testing for our API updates. This allows us to have consistent testing with quick turnarounds per release.

Pros

  • allows for data driven testing
  • allows functional tests to be run at a project, test suite, and test case level, making it very flexible
  • security testing is made quick and easy

Cons

  • The copy/paste functionality in the requests, results and data source grids has been lost and does slow down work.
  • The tool is memory heavy and memory usage could be improved.
  • I have some long calls that "work" but don't respond before the UI times out. These are requests I am using to stuff variables for the subsequent requests. It should be possible to extend the wait time of the tool, as long as the Request is working.

Likelihood to Recommend

ReadyAPI manages endpoints and environments very well, allowing the automation to mix several endpoints into the same Test Case. It is much better for automation tests. Postman has a Team Workspace which allows the SME to set up example Requests for the rest of the team and this works better for manual testing.
LG
Laura Graham LaRocca
QA Manager in Information Technology at Advanced Systems Group (ASG) (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
8 years of experience
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To ReadyAPI or Not

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ReadyAPI is used to validate endpoint functionality and for load testing. The main purpose of using the tool is to create specific scenarios that can be mocked by utilizing files with actual production data and then running it against different endpoints to confirm code is providing the correct response

Pros

  • data validation
  • load testing
  • endpoint availability

Cons

  • change ability between the free and paid version
  • better tutorials
  • better bulk processing

Likelihood to Recommend

Is well suited for: - Validation of single data points - API functionality Is not suited for: - Validation of large amount of data points
VU
Verified User
Analyst in Customer Service (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
4 years of experience

Single Effective Solution for Various Aspects of API Development, Validation and Testing!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My team is responsible for developing and delivering APIs for various system integration requirements. ReadyAPI suite of solutions makes the process of developing, documenting, and testing steps very easy. We have used the SoapUI aspects for connecting with and validating external on-prem as well as cloud solutions, LoadAPI to test the API load on the system by generating up to 500 mock API calls per minute with the virtual users feature. This is a tool that is integral to our day-to-day operations.

Pros

  • API contract validation
  • API load testing by simulating simultaneous virtual users
  • External credentials validation

Cons

  • RestAPI interfacing and testing
  • Clarity in API call failures
  • Better UI

Likelihood to Recommend

We were estimating the system resource requirements during peak times in production but our QA system didn't have the same type of API load. We used LoadAPI to simulate the virtual users and multiple calls per user to create the same API load that was on our production system. This helped better estimate system resources and benchmark the test results.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
4 years of experience

Features of ReadyAPI Over Other Prodcuts

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's amazing software with loads of features readily available for both SOAP and REST services. I'm using ReadyAPI licensed version and I feel it's one place for all soap and rest service testing (including load test). I would strongly recommend this software for anyone [who] needs API testing in their day-to-day work.

Pros

  • Load testing feature is readily available with less effort to configure
  • Automate validation of response using assertion makes my work so easy
  • ReadyAPI is easy to use, user friendly compare to many other leading API testing tools

Cons

  • More customization on reporting would be more useful
  • Frequent updates and frequent changes in look and feel is something annoying at times, but not always
  • Customization of dashboard would be greatly helpful to manage our workspace and projects effectively

Likelihood to Recommend

Best used for SOAP and REST-based services, which includes functional and load tests. This product is not greatly helpful sometimes, where there is event-based testing is required. It would be great if you could integrate event triggering options, pushing messages to JMS or MQ, etc would be an awesome feature.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
ReadyAPI
7 years of experience