This book is aimed at developers and technical testers, who are looking for a quick way to take their SoapUI skills and understanding to the next level. It is not designed as a SoapUI beginner's guide; rather, it can be used more to complement existing basic material found in the online help. However, if you are new to SoapUI but have basic Java skills and a reasonable grasp of RESTful and/or SOAP-based web service technologies, then you should have no problem making use of this book. If you are not interested in coding small amounts of Java and Groovy, or understanding more about the underlying technologies, then you may still find this book useful, but might not get the most out of it.

In terms of SoapUI version, this book favors solutions for the open source version, but is largely just as applicable to the current pro version and contains a few pro only recipes. The Ready API! SoapUI NG Pro version is not directly covered, but much of the content should still be relevant.