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As a user of SoapUI, I find it amusing that SmartBear is writing posts on sucky code. SoapUI for the Mac may very well have the worst user interface that was ev

by ryandvm 14y ago

As a user of SoapUI, I find it amusing that SmartBear is writing posts on sucky code. SoapUI for the Mac may very well have the worst user interface that was ever created. It somehow manages to make the GIMP UI seem fluid and well designed.

Baustin 14y ago
If you don't mind my asking, what version of SoapUI are you using? I'm not going to say that everything was fixed and all better after SoapUI 4.5, but the team did manage to fix some of the issues that we've been having on Mac. That said, we know that our Mac version of SoapUI is still pretty rough (we actually have a blog post from a while of back referring to SoapUI 4.5 as the "suck less on Mac version"). The reason for this is partly because Apple is doing its damndest to break Java on the Mac. But we've also needed to work on improving the Windows version, since that is what most of our users use. In all honesty, the reason we even have a Mac-version of SoapUI is because that team has a childish love for all things Mac. We do have great hopes for the long-term: The new Product owner for SoapUI, Matti, is a Mac guy, our Technology Director, Henrik, for the SoapUI team only uses Mac, and the SoapUI Scrum Master, Ulrika, is a Mac fanatic – hopefully this all pays off. So, please bear with us; we're working on some other projects that will delay any work on the Mac. We're re-building our entire build and release process in order to be able to release tested and validated versions of SoapUI more frequently. Boring stuff, but the advantages are huge. We’re really hoping we'll be seeing improvements for the Mac over the next year.
stonemetal 14y ago
Fortunately or perhaps unfortunately UI and code are two different things. I agree with you that they have horrible UI design. I would also say that once you got past the UI it worked flawlessly, so perhaps the internals are better than the box they came in.

by ryandvm 14y ago

Baustin 14y ago

If you don't mind my asking, what version of SoapUI are you using? I'm not going to say that everything was fixed and all better after SoapUI 4.5, but the team did manage to fix some of the issues that we've been having on Mac. That said, we know that our Mac version of SoapUI is still pretty rough (we actually have a blog post from a while of back referring to SoapUI 4.5 as the "suck less on Mac version"). The reason for this is partly because Apple is doing its damndest to break Java on the Mac. But we've also needed to work on improving the Windows version, since that is what most of our users use. In all honesty, the reason we even have a Mac-version of SoapUI is because that team has a childish love for all things Mac. We do have great hopes for the long-term: The new Product owner for SoapUI, Matti, is a Mac guy, our Technology Director, Henrik, for the SoapUI team only uses Mac, and the SoapUI Scrum Master, Ulrika, is a Mac fanatic – hopefully this all pays off. So, please bear with us; we're working on some other projects that will delay any work on the Mac. We're re-building our entire build and release process in order to be able to release tested and validated versions of SoapUI more frequently. Boring stuff, but the advantages are huge. We’re really hoping we'll be seeing improvements for the Mac over the next year.

stonemetal 14y ago

Fortunately or perhaps unfortunately UI and code are two different things. I agree with you that they have horrible UI design. I would also say that once you got past the UI it worked flawlessly, so perhaps the internals are better than the box they came in.