Guest Post: Clean Your APIs with RAML and SoapUI

Federico Bongiovanni is a Development Engineering Manager at MuleSoft. 

While I was visiting Brazil last week at the MuleSoft summit in Sao Paulo, somebody mentioned to me that SoapUI was now supporting RAML. I took a look and quickly landed on this blog post from Ole Lensmar, the creator of SoapUI. My first reaction was to be totally amazed. SoapUI is my favorite tool for testing web services. So I proceeded to install it, expecting something to not work at first try… but it worked seamlessly. After following the installation steps, in 5 minutes I had the RAML support just where I expected it.

Great! After that, I went ahead and imported a sample RAML file. Instantly I got the structure and skeletons for:

• all the resources
• all the actions
• all my API!

It was respecting everything that was declared in my API spec. Even the examples and media types… so quick, so easy.

After that I was able to go ahead and make REST calls (because I already had an implementation of that API made with APIkit), create assertions, create a stress test and show some nice statistics changing at runtime. And all of that with a very few clicks: import RAML, create request, put some parameters… and voilá.

Kudos to Ole and the SoapUI team, this is an excellent contribution to the RAML community!