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New version of SOA testing tool also introduces WS-Security support and new XML-based test scripting language By Andy Dornan SOA testing vendor Mindreef has announced version 6.1 of SOAPScope, its flagship product for verifying that XML documents and Web services comply with industry standards and internal polices. The main new features are support for the WS-Security stack and a new XML-based scripting language, aimed at documenting test procedures in an executable format. Most users will probably find XML scripting more useful in the short term, as a machine-readable spec is both faster and less error-prone than a person trying to follow a manual. Support for WS-Security is currently driven mostly by compliance mandates, but could become genuinely useful to an increasing number of customers as Web Services grow to span multiple organizations. With the new release, Mindreef has also split the product into four editions, each aimed at a different type of users. As with Windows Vista, the aim is to target different customers by their difering requirements (and their differing budgets), but the effect could be customer confusion. Mindreef says that the user differentiation is driven in part by the different groups within an organization that develop applications, with Web services often developed by individual business users rather than a central IT department....
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