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The 2025.2 release of Parasoft SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP introduces powerful new AI capabilities to make service virtualization and advanced test creation faster and more approachable for QA teams. Whether you’re testing traditional systems or the next generation of AI-driven applications, this release helps you reduce manual effort, accelerate test creation, and validate complex, non-deterministic behavior with confidence.

Here’s what’s new:

First-to-Market Agentic AI for Virtual Service Generation

The AI Assistant in Parasoft Virtualize is the first of its kind to offer agentic AI to generate virtual services from natural language instructions. Just describe the behavior you need, and the assistant handles the rest: from parsing service definitions or sample requests to parameterizing responses.

Now anyone on your team, not just domain experts, can create rich, reusable virtual services in minutes. It’s service virtualization, reimagined for speed, accessibility, and modern API-first workflows.

See Creating Virtual Assets with the AI Assistant for more information.

Natural Language Assertions & Data Extraction With Generative AI Tools

Testing AI-driven systems requires flexibility to test systems that return variable or non-deterministic outputs. The new AI Assertor in SOAtest and AI Data Bank tool in SOAtest and Virtualize makes this easier than ever.
These tools let you use natural language to define rich validation logic and data extraction—no XPath, scripting, or hardcoding needed. They’re ideal for:

• Handling non-deterministic outputs common in generative AI systems
• Describing expected behaviors in natural language, making it easier and faster to validate complex business logic in both traditional and AI-enhanced systems
• Accelerating test authoring and reducing errors in assertions

Validate smarter, not harder—with AI tools built for dynamic systems.

For more details, see AI Assertor and AI Data Bank.

Codeless Testing and Simulation of MCP-Based Applications

Parasoft now supports testing and simulation of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, a key framework for generative AI agents.

Using the intuitive SOAtest and Virtualize UI, teams can now:

• Test MCP Servers and the behavior of MCP tools that AI agents rely on
• Simulate unavailable MCP tools for stable, uninterrupted test automation
• Build test environments that control and observe AI interactions through MCP interfaces—without writing code

This gives teams a huge advantage in testing AI-infused applications, especially as MCP adoption grows.

Learn more in MCP Extensions.

Additional Updates in 2025.2

In addition to our new AI innovations, this release includes valuable updates across the platform:

• Virtualize adds support for GraphQL selection sets, improving GraphQL responder flexibility.
• Provisioning Assets project is now exposed in the Virtualize Server view for easier access and management.
• CTP now supports PostgreSQL, expanding database compatibility.

Review our release notes to learn more about the 2025.2 release of SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP.

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A change template defines mappings that control how to update existing tests. A change template can highlight new operations for you but does not suggest how they should be placed within any of your existing scenarios or whether that even makes any sense. In many cases, new operations may not fit into any of your existing scenarios and you may need to create new scenarios to test them. You would need to define and create the new test scenarios for yourself. However, there is a very powerful new feature that can assist you in doing this. See Creating Tests with the AI Assistant

No, not really. SOAtest Client tools handle HTTP cookies similar to a web browser. If your application set a cookie for the wrong domain then I'd try to address that issue directly.

If your application is accessed behind a reverse proxy server then that server may need to be configured to re-write the HTTP cookies returned by the application. For example, nginx has a proxy_cookie_domain directive.

Smarter Testing with Expanded AI and Workflow Optimization

The 2025.1 release of Parasoft SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP is here—and it's loaded with exciting updates designed to take your testing capabilities to the next level. From more powerful AI-assisted workflows to smarter ways to manage dependencies and optimization of manual testing, this release helps teams increase productivity, improve visibility, and deliver high-quality software faster. Here's a look at what’s new:

Natural Language Test Scenario Creation in the AI Assistant

The chat-based AI Assistant has taken a big leap forward. It now supports natural language-driven test scenario creation. Simply describe what you want in plain English, and the AI Assistant will analyze your OpenAPI/Swagger definitions to automatically generate SOAtest test scenarios and data sources. You can refine your tests through conversation, auto-populate payloads, and build rich, parameterized scenarios with ease. Learn more in Creating Tests with the AI Assistant.

Code Coverage and Test Impact Analysis for Manual Tests

Manual testing just got smarter. A new module in CTP makes it easy to collect code coverage during manual testing and analyze that data in DTP. With test impact analysis, you can identify which manual tests to rerun based on recent application changes—saving time and effort. This powerful feature supports Java and .NET applications, including those with microservice backends. See Manual Testing for more details.

Automatically Transfer Dependencies with Remote Virtual Asset Uploads

Tired of manually uploading dependencies when moving virtual assets to your Virtualize Server? Now, when you upload a virtual asset to a remote server, all associated dependencies—like data sources, scripts, and other referenced files —are automatically detected and transferred, ensuring the asset works as expected. One less thing to worry about.

Using Secrets in Kubernetes Deployments

When deploying SOAtest or Virtualize in Kubernetes, you can now configure secrets for added security. This helps streamline secure server setup and simplifies managing sensitive configuration data.

gRPC Client Improvements

Two key enhancements make the gRPC client even more powerful:

• Support for sending custom headers in metadata to trace and correlate requests.
• Support for token-based authentication, expanding your ability to test secure gRPC services.

See gRPC Transport for full details.

OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow Enhancements

SOAtest now lets you record login steps for web apps that use OAuth 2.0 authorization servers. It will automatically generate an OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow reference test suite—saving time and ensuring consistency. See OAuth Authentication for more info.

Heads-Up: Breaking Changes

This release includes some breaking changes you should be aware of before upgrading. Be sure to review the Breaking Changes section in the release notes to avoid surprises.

For a complete rundown of enhancements, resolved issues, and improvements, check out the full 2025.1 Release Notes.

Stay tuned—we're continuing to innovate and deliver powerful features that help you scale and optimize your testing strategy!