Case Study: Mobility Software Firm accelerates API testing and reduces defect resolution time with SmartBear's SoapUI Pro and ServiceV Pro

SoapUI Pro and ServiceV Pro reduce Time to Test Microservices from a Day to a Few Hours while Helping Developers and Testers Uncover Defects Earlier in the Development Lifecycle

A Boston‑based mobility software provider with more than 30 microservices was relying on a home‑grown API test framework that forced developers to deploy many services locally and left most testing to QA. The Director of Automation and QA sought an easy‑to‑use UI tool to expose API testing to developers, speed up test creation, and enable service virtualization so devs could test a single microservice without deploying the entire ecosystem.

The firm adopted SmartBear SoapUI Pro for functional API testing and ServiceV Pro for service virtualization, which offered low cost, quick demos, and stronger integration than open‑source alternatives. Setup and maintenance time dropped significantly, developers can drag‑and‑drop tests and virtualize other microservices, and defect triage fell from a full day to about two hours—enabling earlier defect discovery, faster two‑week releases, and more time focused on delivering customer features.