Mindreef

February 11, 2008
By Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink 

Maintaining the quality of Services and Service compositions as part of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative is far more complex than traditional software quality assurance. Organizations who are implementing SOA must manage quality across the full Service lifecycle, including design time, runtime, and change time, and furthermore, SOA quality teams must contain a more diverse set of people than traditional software quality requires. As a result, organizations require a new set of tools like the Mindreef SOAPscope Server product family to maintain SOA quality as SOA initiatives ramp up to full enterprise scale.  ...

The Mindreef SOAPscope Server family of SOA Quality tools offers SOA teams the ability to collaboratively manage SOA quality across the Service lifecycle. The new desktop products SOAPscope Architect, Tester, and Developer offer a straightforward entry point for SOA Quality, plus an upgrade path to the collaborative, enterprise-ready SOAPscope Server. ...

There are several reasons why SOA complicates the software quality challenge. First and foremost, SOA requires that organizations maintain quality across the Service lifecycle, including design time, runtime, and change time. As a result, quality assurance is no longer solely a design time set of activities, and now requires a more diverse set of tools to manage. Secondly, the SOA quality team is far more diverse than a traditional QA team, because it contains architects, operations and support personnel, in addition to the testers, developers, and project managers that traditional projects require. For these reasons, tools like the Mindreef SOAPscope Server product family can be an invaluable part of the SOA team’s toolbox.

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