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TeqmatriX Launches SOAtest/Virtualize 2025.3

TeqmatriX Corporation, based in Minato, Tokyo, will begin the sale of SOAtest/Virtualize 2025.3 on January 28, 2026. This innovative tool, developed by Parasoft Corporation, streamlines API testing automation and service virtualization into a single platform, enhancing overall testing efficiency.

In recent years, the integration of systems via APIs has become increasingly vital, particularly as organizations strive to maintain the quality of these APIs. With the growing utilization of AI in app development, periodic security updates, and regression testing, there is an urgent need to automate tests for not just REST APIs but also other protocols such as MQ, JMS, TCP, UDP, and SFTP. Therefore, the necessity for specialized testing tools has never been more critical.

The SOAtest/Virtualize platform supports both API creators and users by working to automate tests and virtualize testing environments. For API developers, it automatically generates test clients to ensure the API functionalities are verified effectively through automated unit and integration tests. Meanwhile, developers working on applications that utilize APIs can benefit from virtualization features that generate high-function mock servers and stubs, providing simulated data. This capability allows testing anytime and ensures that applications function correctly using the data they acquire.

The newly launched SOAtest/Virtualize 2025.3 boasts significantly enhanced AI features, including the integration of an MCP server, allowing users to execute API tests simply by giving natural language commands to any AI agent. This revolutionary approach means that users no longer need to predefine testing assets, and can conduct swift and efficient validation of API functionalities. Additionally, an AI Assertor feature has been introduced to address challenges arising from the variability of AI outputs; this allows users to verify context and content in natural language.

The platform also introduces an MCP Client, enabling automated testing of the MCP server development, and an MCP Listener providing simulated data necessary for testing applications using the MCP server's data, reinforcing test automation within modern development environments. Further enhancing usability, an AI assistant now efficiently generates testing assets in a chat format, allowing for natural language-based stub creation.

In addition to advances in AI-driven testing enhancements, SOAtest/Virtualize 2025.3 significantly strengthens testing for legacy and embedded systems by simplifying TCP/UDP socket communication configurations. Users can now easily set hexadecimal configurations to facilitate communication, including specifying suffix values, thus making it easier to manage the essential four types of messages being sent and received.

Moreover, capabilities for logging TCP socket communications into PCAP files have been bolstered, improving the automation of test assets generation from recorded communications. Such advancements mark a departure from the era of dependence on manual processes or bespoke tool development, contributing significantly to enhanced operational efficiency.

As the exclusive national distributor of Parasoft products, TeqmatriX aims to provide the most robust solutions for all clients involved in API development and application development leveraging APIs. Their commitment to enhancing sales, marketing, and user support for SOAtest/Virtualize reflects their dedication to effectively addressing the challenges surrounding API functionality and quality assurance.

Key New Features in SOAtest/Virtualize 2025.3

1. Strengthened LLM Integration: The MCP server integration facilitates executing API tests via any AI agent by using natural language commands, which streamlines and accelerates the validation process. 
2. AI Assertor Capability: This feature enables verification of outputs in context and content through natural language, meeting the new challenges presented by AI-driven developments. 
3. MCP Client and MCP Listener: These tools support the testing of both the MCP server’s behavior and applications that connect to it, making the development cycle more efficient. 
4. Chat Format for Stub Generation: The chat-based AI assistant can now generate stubs from natural language prompts, enhancing user accessibility to testing asset creation. 
5. Enhancements for Legacy and Embedded Systems: The streamlined approach to TCP/UDP socket communication test configurations and improved methods for generating test assets are notable advancements for ongoing legacy system testing.

Finally, the operational environments for SOAtest/Virtualize include Windows 64-bit, Linux 64-bit, and macOS 64-bit, all ensuring compatibility across major systems. For existing SOAtest/Virtualize users with maintenance contracts, a complimentary upgrade to version 2025.3 will be made available on the launch date, January 28th, 2026.

For more information, visit TeqmatriX's website.