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SD Times: Is SOA Quality a Priority? |
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By David S. Linthicum
SD Times
October 1, 2007
SOA testing is in the media a bit these days as those who implement SOA have to make sure those new services, abstraction layers and orchestrations are ready for prime time. However, the common approach to SOA deployment is: development now, requirements maybe, and testing if we have the time. You can’t afford to make that mistake; there is too much on the line with this stuff.
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Testing services, however, requires testing tools, unless you plan to write your own, which I don’t recommend. While there are a few players in the services/SOA testing game, Mindreef’s SOAPscope Server is one of the few that I keep seeing in use. Mindreef provides tools for automated testing and debugging of Web services and SOA projects, from validation of the service, testing to form and function, and performance testing. There are other tools as well, each taking a different approach to SOA quality, so do your research. I would recommend only using tools that have well-defined approaches to testing, or step-by-step procedures for leveraging their testing tools for your SOA.
What’s key here is to remember that you’re testing an architecture, and not an application. Thus, the complexity of the system, and the approaches and tools used for testing, goes way up. It’s important that you have a solid test plan, an arsenal of testing tools and techniques, and the time needed to test the architecture and correct any problems before they are found by the end user. Consider the systemic and business critical nature of the architecture.
Just to be very clear: Don’t skimp on testing!
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Mindreef Introduces HP Quality Center Integration and Improves Script-based Test Automation |
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Integration with HP Quality Ecosystem Centralizes Testing Efforts and Increases Productivity
Software Test & Performance Conference – Cambridge, MA – October 3, 2007 – Mindreef®, Inc., The SOA Quality Company™, today announced significant updates to its award-winning SOAPscope® product family aimed at improving test automation and integration, SOA quality and performance. With the new enhancements, the company’s flagship Web services testing and SOA Quality management platform, SOAPscope Server™, now supports:
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Integration with HP Quality Center, a centralized platform that manages and governs quality processes and automates software testing across a wide range of application environments. The Mindreef/HP integration allows SOA teams to continue utilizing their familiar HP Quality Center environment to perform Web services testing using Mindreef SOAPscope Server together with Mindreef Load Check™, a powerful load testing add-on module for testing the performance and scalability of services. From within HP Quality Center, users can retrieve and review Mindreef test results and re-run tests for increased visibility into the performance and quality of Web services throughout the entire development lifecycle.
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A new Command Line interface, which allows Mindreef users to run load checks and Test Suites (an ordered list of Mindreef Workspaces) such as unit, functional, regression and acceptance tests directly from the command line by running a test script. Mindreef tests can be automated by third-party-tools including Windows Scheduler, SQL Server Agent, at desired times such as overnight to improve efficiency and utilization of shared resources. |
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Nashua Telegraph: Business People |
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Sunday Telegraph
Published: Sept. 30, 2007
Business People
Shari Zedeck and Myron Zimmerman
Mindreef has expanded its management team with the appointment of Shari Zedeck as vice president of marketing and Dr. Myron Zimmerman as vice president of engineering.
Zedeck has experience in software development, support, product management and marketing. In her current role, she is responsible for driving the marketing strategy, tactics and programs to create interest, demand and recognition for the Mindreef SOAPscope product family.
Zimmerman brings more than 25 years of management and technical experience to the company. As vice president of engineering, he is responsible for overseeing research and development, product development, customer support and quality assurance.
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Mindreef Introduces HP Quality Center Integration and Improves Script-based Test Automation |
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September 2007: A new update is available for SOAPscope Server 6.0 or greater, aimed at improving Web service test automation and integration, SOA quality and performance. The product enhancements support:
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Integration with HP Quality Center, which allows SOA teams to continue utilizing their familiar HP Quality Center environment to perform Web services testing using Mindreef SOAPscope Server and SOAPscope Workstation together with Mindreef Load Check™, a powerful load testing add-on module for testing the performance and scalability of services. From within HP Quality Center, users can retrieve and review Mindreef test results and re-run tests for increased visibility into the performance and quality of Web services throughout the entire development lifecycle.
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A new Command Line interface, which allows Mindreef users to run load checks and Test Suites (an ordered list of Mindreef Workspaces) such as unit, functional, regression and acceptance tests directly from the command line by running a test script. Mindreef tests can be automated by third-party-tools including Windows Scheduler, SQL Server Agent, at desired times such as overnight to improve efficiency and utilization of shared resources.
A free download of the Command Line Interface with HP Quality Center Integration documentation is available to licensed Mindreef customers using SOAPscope Server Version 6.0 or greater when installed with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 on the local machine. Documentation is provided in the “Using Mindreef SOAPscope Server / SOAPscope Workstation with HP Quality Center” PDF included with the download.
SOAPscope Server 6.0 customers click here for Command Line Tool download: http://home.mindreef.com/soapscope_server_downloads.html |
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CNN Money: Automation, End-to-End View of Quality Key to Success in SOA and Web Services QA |
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Composite applications need new testing strategies, and top-performing QA organizations are turning to automation and an end-to-end view of quality in order to keep pace, according to a new benchmark report from Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks company (NYSE: HHS). The report "SOA and Web Service QA and Testing: How Different Can It Be?" is based on a survey of more than 250 companies worldwide for a birds-eye view of this complex subject.
"SOA and web services are raising questions about how to ensure the quality of applications that are much different than those that the QA team has worked with in the past," said Perry Donham, Aberdeen's Director of Enterprise Applications Research, and the report's author. "The companies that are seeing significant improvement in the quality of their composite applications are those that are taking an end-to-end process view of QA, are involving the business users in the quality process, and are leveraging automation to increase test coverage."
The research found that Best-in-Class organizations:
-- Track business requirements throughout the project lifecycle
-- Use design-time governance as a way to establish a culture of quality
-- Have deployed automated testing tools for functional tests
Click here to obtain a complimentary copy of the report.
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