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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

GH Tester

Automate testing of your SOA, BPM and other integration projects with GH Tester, at the heart of the Green Hat test automation suite. GH Tester can form a key part of your project lifecycle. It has an extensive range of enterprise standard capabilities, plus a wide range of over 70 protocols supported. Discover how testing with GH Tester simplifies the complex.

A good integration strategy will design the business process automation and message catalogue and then assign individuals or teams to create the components in isolation. Towards the end of the project, integration testing begins and the problems commence.
The cause of the problem is easily identified: the messages further up the chain were not available for testing.

GH Tester has been designed specifically to solve this problem. Messages can be created (or captured from the bus) and replayed at will. Test sequences can be designed without writing a single line of code to regression test your component or to simulate (stub) a missing component.

By sharing the message definition between consumer and producer, both sides of the interface can test with the same data, eliminating nasty surprises at integration time.

GH Tester has been created to address all the problems inherent in testing systems that do not have graphical user interfaces.

Its powerful test suite can be used to quickly create test stubs for adapters still under construction, and enable users to continue design and implementation of workflows without waiting for the real adapters.

Features

  • Automatically create test plan documentation.
  • Schema-aware message editors for XML (DTD and XSD), SOAP (WSDL) and AE.
  • Support for many different protocols, including JMS, IBM MQ, Sonic MQ, TIBCO, TCP/IP, UDP/IP and SmartSockets. An API let's you write your own transports.
  • Functional component simulation.
  • Automatic test reports created from test results.
  • Regression testing.
  • Record and playback messages.
  • Integrate tests with databases.
  • Manipulate XML documents.
  • Edit messages using intuitive GUI, or a text editor in XML.
  • Capture messages, edit them and republish them.
  • E-mail messages to colleagues in remote locations.
  • Share messages with other Green Hat products.
  • TIBCO Repository integration
GH Tester has been designed for the demands of industrial strength testing, with these key features:

Stubs - Simulate missing systems during testing to allow your project to flow around blockages.
Environments - A powerful abstraction for sets of variables, such as port numbers, database connections and server names, so you can build one set of tests and use them in many places, in many different environments such as development, unit test, systems integration test and even production.
XML - All GH Tester configuration and test results are stored as XML, offering infinite integration possibilities and opportunities for customization.
Schemas - GH Tester has been developed for the changing world. Schema changes are handled in a robust, helpful way. Many different types of schema are supported, not just XSD.
Configuration Management - Out-of-the-box integration with common configuration management (version control/SCM) systems offers flexibility and multi-user capabilities.
No scripting - GH Tester uses easily configurable test actions to provide the tester with a comfortable environment which is as technology free as possible, there is no scripting involved, GH Tester is a 4GL for test automation.
Batch Integration - GH Tester can be invoked from the command-line to execute tests, or can integrate with Hudson, ANT or CruiseControl to provide an automated build and test capability.
Test Management - Integration with popular test management tools from vendors such as HP, IBM and Micro Focus.
Test Data - Create template tests and then re-use with test data sets from Excel, flat files and databases. Tools and wizards help with common data management and preparation problems such as generation and masking.
Methodology - GH Tester is flexible enough to be used with any methodology of your choosing. Green Hat provides advice and documents on strategies to minimise quality problems during your integration project. GH Tester works particularly well with Agile and Test Driven Development Methodologies but also shows significant benefits with waterfall approaches.
Databases - Check the database has the right information in it at each step of the test. Modify databases to simulate business events.
Reporting - Get reports on the test results as HTML, PDF, XML and so on. Reports can be customized to suit your requirements.
Test plans - Automatically generate documentation for your tests.
Coverage - Provides coverage reports for major SOA platforms, providing the world's first and only insight into the effectiveness of your testing for SOA, helping you to target areas where more testing needs to be done.
Files - Read and write data from and to files. Supports fixed and variable width, as well as custom formats.
Log Files - Correlate transactions, find errors and warnings, even when they weren't expected in log files, include fragments in test data reports, create assertions against specific log file content.
Performance testing - Integrates with GH Performance to measure the performance of your system, and provides key information on the performance of components in it.
Governance - Integrate with industry leading governance solutions to enhance management of your SOA lifecycle through our Quality Policies.
GUI Automation - GH Tester now has its own module for automation of UI tests. Using the same trademark codeless testing approach, you can now test a wide variety of UIs, including Web 2.0 solutions utilizing AJAX, SAP ECC, Windows thick client applications (e.g. VB, .Net and C#) and more. If you already utilize QTP for UI automation, GH Tester can also integrate with that.

Transports, protocols and key systems supported

  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix, BusinessWorks, BusinessEvents, iProcess, EMS, TIBCO Rendezvous (RV), TIBCO SmartSockets and Hawk
  • Software AG webMethods IB, IS, BPMS (versions 6, 7 and 8) and CentraSite (versions 7 and 8)
  • IBM WebSphere MQ (version 5 and onwards)
  • Oracle Fusion (WebLogic)
  • SAP XI/PI, BAPI, RFC and IDOCS
  • Sonic MQ and ESB
  • JMS (ActiveMQ, BEA WebLogic, Fiorano, Sun Java CAPS, WebMethods, Oracle and others)
  • HTTP/S (client, server and "snooping")
  • SOAP, XML and HTML, including certificates, encryption, signing and a whole raft of WS-* capabilities (e.g. WS-Security, WS-Addressing, and so on)
  • Databases via JDBC
  • IP (TCP and UDP)
  • HL7 and MLLP
  • SWIFT
  • Java Objects (POJOs and EJBs)
  • .NET Objects
  • COBOL Copybook
  • AMQP
  • IATA
  • BPM
  • GUI Test Automation
  • API allows custom development of any transport not supported
GH Tester is developed in Java and runs on Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, HPUX and other platforms for which JVMs are available. Java can be used to extend the tool at key points allowing you to develop custom transports, formatters and schemas.

OpSystems: OS Independent

Technology Under Test:
  • IBM MQ
  • JMS
  • SmartSockets
  • SOAP
  • Sonic MQ
  • TCP/IP
  • TIBCO
  • UDP/IP
  • Web2.0
Testing Strategy:

  • Functional Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Unit Testing
Programming Language:

  • NoScripting
  • Visual Design

Recorder:
Yes

Official Website:

http://www.greenhat.com

Reference: http://www.automatictestingframeworks.com

Thursday, September 2, 2010

SOA Software Announces IBM IMS Transformation Product

SOLA for IMS Facilitates Agile Reuse of IMS Applications

LOS ANGELES, CA, Sep 01, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance vendor, today announced SOLA for IMS, a legacy modernization solution that transforms IMS applications into high-quality, high-performance enterprise services, allowing the mainframe to be a full participant in an Service Oriented Architecture enabled environment.

SOLA is a comprehensive mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution that cost effectively turns the mainframe into a seamless part of an SOA enabled environment. SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy way to expose mainframe applications as secure, high-performance enterprise services and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services. Using SOLA, customers can leverage millions of dollars of existing mainframe investments as part of their enterprise SOA environment. The SOLA runtime environment resides entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and unnecessary middleware. Coupled with SOLA's Development Studio, this vastly increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost.

"Many Fortune 1000 companies use IMS," said Jim Crew, Vice President of SOA Software. "This product extends existing investments and provides growth opportunities for IMS applications that can be reused in new business initiatives."

SOLA for IMS runs independently of any transaction management software, making it ideal for IMS-only environments. SOLA for IMS handles IMS transactions written in COBOL, PL/I or Natural, with multiple input and output segments. SOLA for IMS also allows any mainframe program to easily consume services. SOLA's orchestration capabilities allow multiple IMS transactions to be executed on a single trip to the mainframe, vastly reducing latency. SOLA for IMS can also service-enable DB2 stored procedures and SQL statements.

SOLA is highly optimized, making it the most efficient option for service-enabling mainframe transactions. Much of SOLA is written in assembler language, so the SOLA runtime offers lower MSU consumption and higher throughput than alternatives that use Java and rely on zAAP specialty engines.

Unlike alternative solutions that only offer one or two components of mainframe SOA, SOLA offers a comprehensive SOA solution, further reducing TCO. SOLA eliminates the need to integrate multiple mainframe and distributed products/platforms to create enterprise-class services. SOLA is a Governed Service Platform, making it fully governable by SOA Software products like Policy Manager and Service Manager.

Innovative SOLA features such as One-Click service creation and an easy to use drag-and-drop interface deliver the only secure, standards-based and governable SOA product in the mainframe industry. SOLA provides end-to-end SOA governance for the mainframe with WS-Security, WS-Policy, optimized registry, integrated monitoring, logging, auditing and near limitless scalability, all implemented on the mainframe. This makes SOLA the only solution for companies seeking secure, high-volume, mission-critical mainframe SOA. SOLA is the only product proven in enterprise implementations to handle high volume (10 million+) transactions per day in mission-critical mainframe SOA environments.

About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and Cloud Services Governance products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run Cloud and enterprise services. Our SOA Software Atmosphere Products are built using our Portfolio Manager(TM), Repository Manager(TM), Policy Manager(TM), and Service Manager(TM). They form a unified SOA Governance Automation solution, with SOLA(TM) providing a governable Mainframe SOA platform. The world's largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software, Atmosphere, Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Friday, April 2, 2010

My SOA Newsletter



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