API Testing Tutorial Part 12 – Tools For Manual & Automation API Testing
Hello Folks,
As part of our API Testing series, we will see “Tools to test SOAP and REST APIs manually and automation” in this post.
There are many tools available for API testing in market with many advanced features. Some tools are free and some are paid. You get basic features when you use a free version. I think there are some good free tools which will cover your API testing requirements for both manual and automation. It all depends on Company or project which tool they prefer. You should be good in understanding of basics of API testing so that you can work on any tool.
Below is a list of some tools which are commonly used in industry now. Here you go:
| Tool Name | Availability | Supports | Kind of Testing | Know More Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postman | Free/Paid | REST/SOAP | Manual/Automation | https://www.getpostman.com/ |
| SoapUI | Free/Paid | REST/SOAP | Manual/Automation | https://www.soapui.org/ |
| SOAtest | Paid | REST/SOAP | Manual/Automation | http://parasoft.com/products/soatest |
| JMeter | Free | REST/SOAP | Manual/Automation | http://jmeter.apache.org/ |
| Katalon Studio | Free | REST/SOAP | Manual/Automation | https://docs.katalon.com/ |
| Rest Assured - Java | Free | REST/It supports SOAP but it will be complex. | Automation | http://rest-assured.io/ |
| Chakram - JavaScript | Free | REST | Automation | http://dareid.github.io/chakram/jsdoc/index.html |
| UFT- Visual Basic | Paid | REST/SOAP | Automation | https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/unified-functional-automated-testing/overview |
| Karate - Java | Free | https://github.com/intuit/karate | ||
| RestSharp - .net | Free | REST | Automation | http://restsharp.org/ |
| Citrus - Java | Free | REST/SOAP | Automation | http://citrusframework.org/ |
I have decided that I will cover Postman and Rest-Assured tools in this series.
If you have any doubt, feel free to comment below.
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Author: Amod Mahajan
A software Tester who is paid to judge products developed by others. Writing technical posts and creating YouTube videos are my hobbies.
I feel writing code In postman is a little complicated as syntax is not that user friendly. Writing in Soapui is easy as groovy scripting is more like java,
Good to know that Katalan Studio is open source.
You need to know javascript to write tests in Postman.
Hi
Could you please make videos on groovy scripting in SOAPUI
Agreed sure!!
Good one. I see many folks saying Postman as manual & RestAssured as Automation. Always wondered how that’s possible and felt postman is both Manual/Automation. Good explanation
Thanks Avinash.
Hi,
POstman is a powerful tool for API testing both manual and automation.