SoapUI's Background The first version of SoapUI was released in October 2005. The guy behind it was Ole Lensmar, at that time working as the architect of a huge SOA project. “There was simply no test tool available that worked well with an agile development process.” says Ole. “So I had to develop one myself.” For several months Ole worked with the SOA project during the days and developed SoapUI in his spare time. When Ole saw what SoapUI could do for him and his colleagues he decided to share SoapUI with other people working with SOA development and the Open Source version of SoapUI was released. Since then several releases have been made and today SoapUI is the most used tool for SOA testing in the world. Already from start the ambition was to create a best-in-breed test tool for Web Services and that mission has been a guiding star ever since. Our development strategy rests on two fundamental pillars; humble listening and innovative thinking. We have a close and op...