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By Rich Seeley, News Writer
August 20, 2007

You can build a complex house of cards, but when you're finished, it's still a house of cards. The same is true of service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications built without comprehensive quality assurance, says Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst, ZapThink LLC. If one of the primary goals of using the SOA approach is agility, it will fall apart if quality isn't built in to the entire application, he argues in a ZapThink white paper published this month titled, SOA Quality across the Service Lifecycle.

"This core agility benefit of SOA collapses like a house of cards," he writes, "if the services or the applications that consume and compose them are of poor quality or behave in an unpredictable manner." ... As is true of SOA itself, tools alone are not enough to assure quality, which requires following best practices as well as testing Web services and checking that service level agreements (SLAs) are being adhered to....

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Posted by Miko Matsumura
August 16, 2007
 
There’s a little buzz about SOA Testing, in particular David Linthicum wrote a piece for SD Times on the topic…  In addition the Zapthink guys posted this treatise on SOA and Testing. What’s this about?

I had a good conversation with Frank Grossman from Mindreef the other day, and the conclusion that we converged on is a variant on the idea expressed by David Linthicums SOA definition....

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By Rick Whiting, CMP Channel
3:51 PM EDT Tue. Aug. 14, 2007 

Oracle has begun shipping the next generation of its flagship database... Oracle formally debuted the new 11g release last month, touting its advanced data partitioning and compression capabilities, improved security and enhanced ability to handle real-time data, and its ability to work with new data types such as RFID tags and digital medical images. A Gartner report issued after the debut predicted that the new features and functionality would drive between 15 percent and 20 percent of the Oracle customer base to upgrade to 11g within 12 months " a faster adoption rate than earlier versions of the product.

That jives with what Jim Murphy, product development vice president at Mindreef, is hearing from his customers. Mindreef develops its SOAPscope software for testing service-oriented architecture systems and 80% of Mindreef's customers run those tools on Oracle's database. "The thing that really caught our development group's attention is its (11g's) improved manageability," Murphy says, noting that (11g) helps customers deploy SOAPscope more easily. Customers have been asking about Mindreef support for 11g since early this year, he says. SOAPscope supports the new database....

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The HR-XML Consortium announced today its fall programming for those interested in the application of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services in the provision of employee benefit services. Highlights include a free Sept. 4 Webinar and sessions within HR-XML's Global Partnering and Integration Summit, Sept. 26-27, in Las Vegas...

-- SOA Success: Aligning Your Development Organization, Jim Murphy, Vice President, Mindreef.
Much of the discussion about service oriented architecture (SOA) focuses on tools, technologies, and architectural methodologies. Too often, adopters fail to give sufficient attention to organizational dynamics required to support a successful SOA initiative. In this session, Jim Murphy, Vice President Product Management at Mindreef, a leading provider of SOA quality and governance solutions, explains how most enterprises beginning a SOA initiative soon realize that the biggest obstacles to success are organizational, rather than technical.

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