SOA testing, done with the right kind of automation, can make testing of different and complex technologies easy and enable best practices beyond just testing.

SOA Testing: Fast Track to Better Results

1 April, 2009 London, England

Green Hat joined Butler Group analysts and other SOA industry leaders to discuss the current state of SOA testing and lessons learned from numerous customer engagements.

"There is a great need and a great opportunity to unify your SOA community of users with a common testing framework. With test-driven development and agile development taking hold, there is every reason to start SOA testing at the beginning of the lifecycle and carry it throughout. What good is fast development if testing can't keep up? What good is getting to market fast with errors?" pointed out Chris Haggan, Green Hat's senior sales engineer and presenter.

The presentation illustrated the differences and complexities involved in SOA testing. Organizations rely on Web Services, messaging and ESBs, business process management (BPM) and governance platforms, complex event processing and virtualization to support their critical business processes. Testing this complexity can be easy when automation validates the business logic, the infrastructure and compliance with policies.

Hagan highlighted customer successes in achieving significant reductions in testing effort and cost that were sustainable from release to release. He specifically showed how Green Hat's simulation capability kept projects on schedule and removed the need for dedicated communications infrastructure and real-time access to third party systems.

About Green Hat (www.greenhat.com)

Green Hat is the global testing technology leader for SOA lifecycle management. We serve dozens of companies in the Global 500, including half of the top ten as well as many more in the Global 2000. We make testing simple and streamlined for complex systems relying on Web Services, messaging/ESB, BPM, CEP and governance. We make constant transformation sustainable with reusable assets and simulations.

Green Hat partners with FioranoMQ, HP, IBM, Oracle, Progress, Software AG, TIBCO and their service providers with a testing technology framework and best practices. We tie quality and performance to business requirements. We create material differences in the time, cost and coverage of testing for integration and SOA projects, departments and COE’s.

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