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As the adoption of SOA moves from early-adopters to mainstream
corporate initiatives, companies are challenged to quickly achieve
their intended goals of business agility and cost savings from service
reuse. This paper explores the many facets of SOA Quality that help
achieve those goals; it outlines how each role in an organization,
throughout the service development lifecycle, can apply a strategic
approach to ensuring quality at the outset of an SOA initiative to
obtain the agility and reuse that yield a significant and immediate
ROI.
SOA enables agile testing when testing is focused on the architecture and XML abstraction layer versus the code implementation. By testing the XML abstraction layer and using the interface and contract standards, you can not only test first, but test continuously and validate interoperability for service consumers. The ideal solution for ensuring SOA performance levels is to provide a direct extension of the existing development/test environment to address performance testing early and often based on the consumer's perspective. Learn how in this white paper.
SOA is receiving considerable attention due to its ability to integrate corporate data silos and enterprise applications within corporations and outside to key business partners and suppliers. Designing, developing, deploying, and supporting SOA architecture requires unique tools with robust collaboration features. Standard development tools are insufficient by themselves because of the unique requirements of Web services and the complexities of effective services architecture. Learn how you can address these problems by driving collaboration among SOA team members.
Today on Extreme Makeover: WSDL Edition we have a workhorse
of a Web service that has been in production for a number of years. It
has many excellent qualities: it is well-formed, comprehensive, based
on industry standards, and open to connecting to new applications.
However, this Web service never seems to draw the kind of attention it
would like to. While it has no difficulty attracting potential apps, it
has a hard time binding with them, and interoperating in the long run.
Learn how it can be successfully transformed.
Testing enterprise middleware that has a SOA front-end and dozens of back-end connections is a daunting responsibility. In this paper, the authors relay their experience of creating a suite of tools to test what is possibly one of the world’s largest middleware implementations. They start with a comprehensive review of the problems of testing SOA middleware applications. Second, the review our requirements for the tools that we eventually acquired, the tools that the market offers, as well as what is needed but can not be found in the marketplace. Finally, they conclude with one solution that has been in use for over a year, has executed hundreds of thousands of tests, and certifies the functionality of systems that execute over a billion transactions per month.
There are a significant number of companies investing in SOA initiatives, but only a small number are at the point of realizing a positive return on their investments. These organizations have embraced SOA as part of their core business strategies, yet they have also taken a pragmatic approach, knowing that a successful service-oriented architecture depends upon the quality of the architecture itself.
A surprising number of developers aren’t achieving the level of reusability they expected out of their service-oriented architectures…and they don’t understand why. They’re developing a number of Web services and listing them in a directory, but they’re finding out that they have to do much more in order to make the SOA a success. Learn how to take the next step toward utilization — and ultimately, reuse. |
