New version of industry-leading Test Automation Tool provides huge productivity and quality improvements for integration projects utilising a variety of messaging technologies including Web Services, JMS, Sonic MQ, TIBCO (RV, AE or EMS), IBM MQ Series, and others.

Testing tool for ESB, SOA, JMS and Web Services Released

New version of industry-leading Test Automation Tool provides huge productivity and quality improvements for integration projects utilising a variety of messaging technologies including Web Services, JMS, Sonic MQ, TIBCO (RV, AE or EMS), IBM MQ Series, and others.

LONDON – June 30th, 2005 - Green Hat Consulting today announced the General Availability of version 3 of GH Tester, a significantly enhanced version of its automated testing tool for integration projects.

Already widely used in blue chip organisations such as BP, KPN Telecom, Cendant Corporation, ScottishPower, Virgin Mobile, Atos Origin and 3 (Hutchison 3G Telecom), GH Tester enables integration projects to be delivered in a fraction of the time and cost than has previously been the case, and with considerable enhancements to delivered quality.

Francesca Kay, Test Manager at Virgin Mobile who use the tool for testing their integration projects, says of GH Tester: "We are able to complete testing in 25% to 40% of the original estimated time and my test team has found the range of functions available within the product a revelation".

With the new version, not only has this range of functions been greatly enhanced, but the range of technologies has been expanded to include Sonic MQ, IBM WebSphere MQ and other JMS implementations. Web Services (SOAP) are also supported in the new release.

"With the current emphasis in the integration space for Service Oriented Architectures and an Enterprise Service Bus approach to integration, there is a real need for automation to enable these to be delivered quickly and with high quality" comments John Chewter, Product Development Manager at Green Hat Consulting. "The new version of GH Tester addresses that need in the area of automated testing, irrespective of the actual technology chosen by the organisation to implement that vision. With the years of experience and expertise that have gone into GH Tester, we are confident that it will become the de facto standard for automated testing of SOA/ESB integration projects".

As an additional benefit, GH Tester will also offer integration with a range of leading Test Management software suites, including Mercury Quality Center and Compuware TestManager.

GH Tester is thought to be the first specialist automated testing tool designed specifically for integration projects that truly offers multi-protocol support. As such, it will appeal to users of a variety of such messaging protocols and, in particular, to those organisations who use various different technologies within their organisation. GH Tester will finally enable them to standardise on a single testing tool that will, in all probability, also provide integration into their overall test management environment.

"The release of the new version of GH Tester opens up huge opportunities for those involved in the development and deployment of SOA, Web Services, JMS projects and the like" comments Mark Glading, Head of Sales & Marketing at Green Hat Consulting. "From today, they can use GH Tester to cut the time of implementation and at the same time improve the quality of the final deliverables. Our market testing in the run up to this release indicates that there will be huge interest from organisations, large and small, from around the globe. We will be actively seeking to grow our international network of resellers in order to be able to respond to this interest at a local level".

GH Tester is licensed on a per-user basis with licences available in batches of five. A support and maintenance service, providing free upgrades to new versions and releases, is provided by Green Hat, via their network of resellers where appropriate.

GH Tester is available for free evaluation from the Green Hat Consulting website at www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghtools.

Technical Notes
Facilities available in the latest version include:

  • Testing and simulation of web services.
  • Intuitive drag-and-drop user interface.
  • SOAP over JMS support.
  • Command-line operation to allow batch integration.
  • Database operations.
  • Wide support for XML, including DTD and XSD validation.
  • Tested against Sonic MQ, TIBCO (EMS and RV) and IBM WebSphere MQ.
  • JMS support.
  • Support for custom transports via API.
  • Test data facility allowing management of test data in Excel or text files.

About the GH Tools
The GH Tools are a set of productised, commercially-available tools that have emerged from Green Hat's many, many man-years of work on TIBCO projects, where the lack of tools to assist in the build, test and run phases of such projects has always been apparent. The GH Tools incorporate all of our own experience in this area, plus that of our customers and users. As supported products, there is a fully-funded roadmap to build on the level of functionality that users want to see in this area; all users have free access to product upgrades (subject to a current maintenance agreement) and thus share in the aggregation of good ideas and enhancement requests.

The GH Tools are sold and supported by a network of Resellers around the world including:

  • Aipex Pty Ltd in Australia and New Zealand
  • MENA eSolutions in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Perficient in North America
  • Dynabyte in Scandinavia.

The tools are:
GH Tester an automated testing tool which facilitates dramatic savings in the time and cost of building and testing integration projects.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghtester
GH Tracker a "black box flight recorder" enabling users to capture the messages published onto the TIB. These are then stored in a database for subsequent searching and sorting to identify broken messages and message flows.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghtracker
GH Viewer provides an enterprise-wide view of the TIBCO network at the protocol level, enabling users to identify potential bottlenecks and hotspots before they cause expensive system degradation.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghviewer

About Green Hat Consulting
Green Hat Consulting is a business process automation and systems integration company, specialising in the finance, energy and telecommunications sectors. Our clients include some of the largest European and American investment banks, stock exchanges and providers of trading systems.

In addition, we have delivered fully integrated process automation ("STP") solutions to major clients in the finance, telecommunications, energy trading and travel & logistic sectors across Europe. Our expertise in developing and delivering industry solutions which automate and integrate the key business processes in that sector has enabled our clients to enjoy real improvements in efficiency and productivity.

Green Hat Consulting's products include feeds and adapters, monitoring and administration tools and front-ends. Our bespoke development service accommodates individual requirements.

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