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The
nature of a service-oriented archtecture changes the application
lifecycle from design, through development, testing, deployment and
beyond. As a result, today’s agile organizations are replacing the
traditional waterfall lifecycle with a much more continuous lifecycle
that involves more frequent updates as well as a shorter QA cycle.
This puts more pressure on the developer to achieve higher quality from
the start as services are created. They must also be able work at the
XML software layer while interfacing with technical personnel that may
be using different platforms and languages.
Whether you are
developing Web services or building solutions that use Web services,
the Mindreef SOAPscope family of tools are designed to help overcome
the challenges of the service-oriented lifecycle. You will improve
productivity by simplifying and automating tedious and time-consuming
XML-oriented tasks, and improve service quality. Mindreef SOAPscope
WorkstationTM and SOAPscope offer affordable options for developers to
increase efficiency with:
- Pinpoint and solve XML-related problems quickly with XML visibility and analysis tools
- Easily collaborate on tough problems with Web services and SOA projects
- Share automated scenarios with others, independent of language or platform
- Interact and understand the behavior of your services throuhout the lifecycle
| Testing - Create service simulations and automated use-cases before the service code is written
- Quickly develop and execute tests to find and fix problems early
- Jumpstart testers by sharing unit tests that can be expanded into regression tests
- Effortlessly validate compliance with codified industry and organizational XML and SOA standards
| Supporting Service Users - Receive complete and reproducible problem data in self-contained workspaces
- Quickly triage and diagnose problems with XML visibility and analysis tools
- Provide users with example workspaces showing correct usage that users can try themselves
| Using Services - Quickly and thoroughly investigate performance problems and bottlenecks
- Immediately determine if a problem is with the service or the use of the service
- Save time and start development early with simulated services
- Identify performance issues early, when they are easier to find and less costly to fix
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SOAPscope
Workstation and SOAPscope help developers successfully build, test, and
deliver services and SOAs by reducing the complexity of XML, and by
making compliance checking and unit testing accessible earlier in the
lifecycle and easy to accomplish.
- SOAPscope Workstation
is a Web services testing and SOA Quality Management platform that
helps testers, developers, QA engineers, consultants and support
engineers understand and address services problems quickly and
cost-effectively. It provides an integrated set of tools for Web
services testing, design-time support, prototyping, change-time and
run-time support. When used with Policy Rules Manager, it provides the
ability to validate policies and WSDL contracts during all stages of
service development.
- SOAPscope is an entry-level
desktop tool for developers new to Web services or just getting
started. SOAPscope provides the ability to understand and invoke Web
services and diagnose XML problems in Mindreef Pseudocode™, which
translates angle-bracket code into human-readable data.
SOAPscope Solutions for Developers, Support and Service Consumers Service
reuse is one of the most sought-after objectives on any SOA
implementation, giving your company more agility and the ability to
better compete in today's competitive business environment. But without
SOA quality, reuse is essentially unattainable. Mindreef SOAPscope
makes service reuse a reality.SOAPscope enables SOA Quality from the
service provider lifecycle and the service consumer lifecycle.
For the service provider lifecycle, SOAPscope provides fast, easy, automated testing and quality assurance solutions that address new testing challenges: - How do you test an always on service without impacting a business (i.e., initiating transactions on live services/applications?)
- How will QA teams test webservices without extensive training on XML?
- How can teams test against offline or unavailable date sources?
For the service consumer lifecycle,
SOAPscope provides design-time support that reduces the burden on
developers to continuously support, and educate the users of their
services by addressing these new design-time challenges: - How can non-XML experts view and understand what services are available in a registry for reuse?
- How do they know if a service is right for them without the ability to try a service before prototyping?
- How do architects know if a service conforms to industry and corporate standards?
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