TL;DR Top 3 SoapUI Alternatives in 2019: The demand for API and Web service testing has been consistently growing. In this regard, SoapUI is still one of the most influential automation tools for API and Web service testing; but it also has drawbacks. In this blog, we will suggest some potential SoapUI alternatives that you can download and try for free.

We are excited to announce that Katalon has been recognized as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for the Software Test Automation market. Katalon has the 2nd highest number of reviews out of 34 companies listed on Gartner Peer Insights’ Software Test Automation market. Our team at Katalon takes great pride in this distinction, as customer feedback continues to shape our products and services.

We’re excited to introduce Katalon Studio for Bamboo—a plugin that helps integrate Katalon Studio with Bamboo CI server. This blog will guide you through the plugin’s features and functionalities, so that you can take Katalon Studio test automation to the next level with Bamboo.

Our team at Katalon is thrilled to introduce Katalon Store (beta)—a collaborative marketplace for the Katalon community to use and create add-on products that extend the testing capability of Katalon Studio. Katalon Store serves as a platform for testers and developers to install add-on products, also known as ‘plugins,’ to help our users add more features and optimize test automation strategies in Katalon Studio. Users can install, manage, rate and write reviews for plugins.

TL; DR, You can build UI test automation without mastering any of the programming languages. In every well-designed tech team, there is a balanced amount of developers taking care of the web, internal system, and applications. Next to them, ideally, are product owners, tech leads, designers and software testers. Being the only QA person in my team gave me hard times, but also a lot of freedom in my actions, decisions, strategies and, most significantly, allowed me to try out new approaches.

Let’s get technical! Read this if you are a QA noob But before you start: If you don’t know what Katalon Studio is, read this first, and get to know why I picked it to build web automation. To be mentioned, before looking at the studio, Katalon project offers an IDE tool for Chrome, called Katalon Recorder. It’s an extension that records actions, captures web elements, plays the automated test case you recorded and speaks Selenese.

API (application programming interface) testing is a type of software testing that performs verification directly at the API level. It is a part of integration testing that determines whether the APIs meet the testers’ expectations of functionality, reliability, performance, and security. Unlike UI testing, API testing is performed at the message layer without GUI.