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Leading SOA Quality Platform with New Expandable Architecture; Introduces Cost-effective Module for Performance and Load Checking Early in the Development Cycle
ORLANDO, FL – IBM IMPACT 2007 – May 21, 2007 – Mindreef®, Inc., The SOA Quality Company™, announced SOAPscope ServerTM 6.0, featuring a new plug-in
software architecture for SOA testing, performance and quality that enables test-driven development of Web services and
composite applications. SOAPscope
Server 6.0 has been expanded to support add-on
modules – the first of which is Load Check™. Load
Check significantly reduces the complexity and cost of load testing and makes
it available to the entire service team, not just a few specialists responsible
for running load tests. The expandable SOAPscope
Server architecture allows teams to add modules specific to their needs as
their SOA implementations grow from tens to hundreds of services and become
more complex. In a related
announcement, Mindreef customers and partners praise the enhancements in
SOAPscope Server 6.0 and Load Check (see: http://home.mindreef.com/news /).
A free whitepaper addressing the
importance of agile load checking for SOA quality is available at: http://home.mindreef.com/whitepaper_impact.html . New Load Check Module Breaks SOA Performance
Barriers In the
past, load testing has consistently been complex, expensive and often implemented
at the end of a lifecycle – causing costly delays when performance and
scalability bottlenecks are discovered too late to effectively locate or
address them. Mindreef Load Check brings powerful new easy-to-use testing features to the
very beginning of the service lifecycle. This gives development and QA teams
the ability to incrementally test and load check services during all stages of
SOA development, without requiring specialized performance testing skills. Testing
early and often allows everyone on the service team – from management to line
engineers – to have visibility and understanding of the performance of each
service well before it heads toward production. Performance problems and
bottlenecks are easily identified and corrected as they happen, prior to being
formally load tested by the corporate performance team, preventing “baked in”
issues that are costly and time consuming to re-engineer at the last minute. Load Check
is extremely easy to use by anyone during all stages of development; any team
member can start load checking a Web service in less than an hour and view results using a human-readable interface. Load Check leverages the Scenario Testing
capability in SOAPscope Server 6.0 to support testing for multiple orchestrated
scenarios. This
means that load is added to the service in the same way that composite
applications will be using the services. When used with SOAPscope Server 6.0, Load Check
allows service teams to:
“SOA quality goes far beyond Web Services testing; Mindreef's focus on
the design-time, run-time, and change-time aspects of SOA Quality Management
shows how well Mindreef delivers on what SOA teams need today,” said Jason
Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink. “The new version of SOAPscope Server with
Load Check underscores Mindreef’s leadership position in the industry with an
expandable architecture to address SOA quality and performance issues today and
in the future.” “Mindreef
Load Check makes performance testing and load checking available early in the
lifecycle – this has been a growing demand from our customers and something not
available to them until now,” said Jim Murphy, Vice President of Product
Management at Mindreef. “We’ve had performance teams at several large companies
request solutions for services to be well tested before arriving at their
performance labs. The Mindreef team has
received enthusiastic feedback from our beta sites that SOAPscope Server 6.0
with Load Check is accomplishing the task plus allowing teams to utilize
test-driven development techniques to confidently build high-quality services
and pinpoint performance and scalability issues early and cost effectively.” SOAPscope Server 6.0 for
SOA Performance, Testing and Quality SOAPscope
Server 6.0 provides development and testing teams with easy-to-use, automated tools
for performance and load checking, test automation,
design-time governance and interactive ad-hoc testing. All of these are fully
integrated into a single server-based platform to facilitate effective
collaboration and sharing of service assets and best practices. In addition to Mindreef Load Check, SOAPscope
Server 6.0 introduces other key product enhancements and features. These include:
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and Availability About
Mindreef, Inc. Contact: Becky Ayers Mindreef, Inc. (321) 446-5466 |