I use to be a very strong advocate for SOAPscope. That's before I upgraded from v4.1. to v5.2. Now I have an odd bug where I have to re-enter my licensing information every time I start the server. SOAPscope crashes when I attempt to add certain WSDLs to my project. And the new user interface is much much slower and a bit more clunky looking (making it difficult to navigate).

soapui to the rescue! A co-worker, Steve Keizer, turned me on to soapui yesterday. Then I noticed Chris McMahon had blogged about it (a strong reference in my mind). Within ten minutes, I had it up and running, pointing to my WSDL (the one that crashes SOAPscope), and had executed my first test. And, it's free...

I'll report back if I find any large problems, but for right now, I’m converted. It’s soapui for my day to day web service testing.

Not directly related to testing, but this is a must have development tool - Multiplicity. I've been using it for a week now, and I think I'll buy a license today.

Multiplicity allows you to control multiple machines using one mouse/keyboard. I have a dual monitor system at home to begin with, but I keep many client files on my laptop because that's what I take on site. With multiplicity, I have three screens on my desktop, access to all my files (without having to set up a share or network anything), and for all practical purposes, I don't know it's a separate machine.

You can also copy text back and forth using the clipboard -- it's not much, but I've already found it handy for code and text from documents and emails.

Check it out. Also noteworthy, it's been up and running for a week now and I haven't noticed any bugs. Something rare...