Sincere and special thanks to the following people:

The editors Richard Brookes-Bland, Adrian Raposo, and Tanvi Bhatt. Richard for getting me started, making me feel positive about the book, and showing me the way forward. Adrian for his corrections, helping me develop my writing skills, giving me encouragement when I needed it, and staying the distance. Lastly, to Tanvi for all her hard work knocking my draft chapters into shape and her great attention to detail when editing technical content.

The reviewers Ambesh, Mykola, and Damian and others,for all your helpful comments and constructive criticism. Thanks for all your efforts; it was a major help and I am very grateful for it.

My girlfriend, Nicola, for being there to balance my life and helping me make the head space to write this book by doing such a great job of looking after our two lovely kids! I'd better thank the kids too, Cole and Maisy, for giving me natural breaks in my work with their chirpy but adorable ways!

My friend and colleague Ben Wilcock, for introducing me to Packt Publishing, encouraging me to write this book, and all those pub lunches where I got to offload all my ideas to someone passionate about modern integration techniques and API testing!

The SoapUI Creators, particularly Ole Lensmar, whom I have never met but have great respect for. Without your skill, passion, and drive to make SoapUI so open and extensible, this book would have been far less fun to write!