Do I need the upstream SOAP endpoint to replay?

No. The recorded responses are served from the test set, so a replay run needs no SOAP instance at all. You need it once, during the recording pass.

Is my SOAP client still exercised?

Yes. Keploy replays at the protocol, so the client parses, converts and decodes exactly as it does in production. That is the difference from a stubbed client, which skips all of it.

How do I refresh the recordings?

Record again. One command re-captures every SOAP interaction, so a schema or response change surfaces as a diff instead of a stale fixture that still passes.

Are WS-Security headers a problem?

Signed and timestamped headers vary per request, so Keploy detects them as non-deterministic and excludes them while still asserting the body.

Does Keploy replace WireMock?

Not where you need the real engine, and that is worth being clear about. Use WireMock when a test genuinely has to exercise SOAP itself. Keploy covers the much larger set of tests that only need the responses.

Keploy as a SOAP testing framework

Keploy records the SOAP over HTTP exchanges your service has with an upstream service, then replays those envelopes in tests. Your SOAP client runs unchanged and parses a real response on every run, but CI needs no upstream endpoint and no stub to maintain.

Generate SOAP tests free

keploy record -c "<your app start command>"

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What Keploy gives a SOAP team

Every SOAP call your service makes

Keploy records SOAP request and response envelopes as they cross HTTP, so a service that calls a SOAP endpoint can be tested with no access to that endpoint.

Envelopes captured verbatim
Namespaces preserved
SOAP faults captured
No upstream access needed

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The problem

Why SOAP integration tests slow teams down

The friction is rarely the assertions. It is everything around them — spinning up dependencies, keeping mocks honest, and repairing tests after every refactor.

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Three ways to do it

Testing SOAP: by hand, with WireMock, or with Keploy

WireMock gives a test a real SOAP endpoint at the cost of running and configuring one. A hand-stubbed client is cheap but never parses an envelope. Keploy replays the recorded exchange with nothing running.

By hand

WireMock

With Keploy

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Same coverage, three costs

What you write for SOAP vs what Keploy records

All three produce the same assertion. Only the third still passes after the next refactor without anyone editing it.

By hand2–4 hours

order_repository_test.py

hand-written

from unittest.mock import MagicMock

# A stub SOAP client: every reply is typed out here.

def test_reads_an_order():

client = MagicMock()

client.fetch.return_value = {

"id": "o-1",

"total": 4200,

"status": "NEW",

}

order = OrderRepository(client).find("o-1")

assert order.total == 4200

# Nothing here parsed an envelope, so a schema or encoding

# change in the real reply cannot fail this test.

A hand-written stub of the SOAP client. No envelope is ever parsed.

WireMock1–2 hours

order_repository_container_test.py

tool-assisted

import pytest

from testcontainers.core.container import DockerContainer

@pytest.fixture(scope="session")

def client():

# Serves a stubbed SOAP endpoint per suite. Needs a Docker

# available wherever the tests run, including CI.

with DockerContainer("wiremock/wiremock:latest") as c:

c.start()

yield connect(c.get_container_host_ip(), c.get_exposed_port(0))

def test_reads_an_order(client):

# Schema and seed data are still written by hand.

seed(client, id="o-1", total=4200, status="NEW")

order = OrderRepository(client).find("o-1")

assert order.total == 4200

WireMock serves a real SOAP endpoint. Fidelity is genuine; the job pays for it in setup.

With Keploy~5 minutes

keploy/test-set-0/test-1.yaml

auto-generated

version: api.keploy.io/v1beta1

kind: Http

name: test-1

spec:

req:

method: POST

url: /orders/o-1/confirm

resp:

status_code: 200

body: '{"id":"o-1","status":"CONFIRMED","total":4200}'

assertions:

noise:

- body.confirmedAt

---

kind: Http

spec:

request:

url: https://api.payments.example.com/v1/charges

response:

body: '{"status":"AUTHORIZED"}'

---

kind: Http

spec:

request:

url: https://api.payments.example.com/v1/payment_intents/tok_123/confirm

response:

body: '{"status":"AUTHORIZED"}'

Recorded from one real request. Nothing here was typed by hand.

Times are estimates for authoring one endpoint’s coverage from scratch, not measurements.

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Keploy vs the alternatives

SOAP testing tools, compared

The options a team on service and platform integrations actually reaches for, and where each one genuinely wins. Select a row for the full comparison.

Keploy

WireMock

LocalStack

Mountebank

Hoverfly

Postman

SmartBear ReadyAPI

Best in classStrongPartialNot covered

Assessments reflect each tool’s documented behaviour, not benchmark measurements.

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How it works

Record your SOAP app once, replay it forever

Keploy sits below your SOAP process at the network layer. It watches the calls your app already makes, then serves them back on replay so tests run with no dependencies attached.

Your SOAP appGET/api/v1/orders/{id}200

RecordingKeploy proxyeBPF · userspace

Outbound HTTPEvery outbound HTTP call

gRPCHTTP/2 frames from a gRPC clientPartial

PostgreSQLPostgres protocol beneath the driver

RedisRESP beneath the cache client

+2 more SOAP dependencies

An example shape of a captured call. Your own endpoints and dependencies come from your real traffic, so nothing here has to be written by hand.

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Mock coverage

What Keploy mocks for SOAP, with zero config

5 of the 6 dependencies a typical SOAP service talks to are stubbed from the recording itself — no mock classes, no fixture files, no containers in CI.

Outbound HTTP
Auto-mocked
Outbound HTTP
Every outbound HTTP call
Partial
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HTTP/2 frames from a gRPC client
Auto-mocked
PostgreSQLView page
Postgres protocol beneath the driver
Auto-mocked
RedisView page
RESP beneath the cache client
Auto-mocked
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Wire protocol beneath the Mongo driver
Auto-mocked
Apache KafkaView page
Kafka protocol beneath the client

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Quick start

Your first SOAP test suite in under five minutes

Every command below runs against your existing SOAP service. Nothing in your source tree changes.

1
1Install the Keploy CLI
A single binary. It needs a Linux kernel with eBPF support, or Docker on macOS and Windows — and it adds nothing to your project's dependencies.
curl -sSL https://keploy.io/install.sh | bash
2
2Record your service
Pass the command you already use to start the app. Keploy runs it and watches every socket it opens.
keploy record -c "<your app start command>"
3
3Exercise the paths you care about
Use curl, your frontend, or an existing smoke script. Every request becomes a test case with its SOAP calls captured alongside it.
curl -X POST localhost:8080/orders/o-1/confirm
curl localhost:8080/orders/o-1
4
4Replay in CI
Replay serves the recorded dependency responses, so the job needs no service containers and no Docker daemon.
keploy test -c "<your app start command>" --delay 10