Testing SOA: Peeling the Onion

The good news about service-oriented architectures (SOA) is the flexibility they provide for ad hoc integration within and across enterprises. It's also the bad news when it comes to testing, which relies on predictability and repeatability.The key is to first isolate the architectural layers so that functionality can be tested -- and issues exposed -- at their source as early as possible, then to gradually integrate the components until end-to-end business processes can be verified....Contd

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soapUI 3.6 beta1 - The loadUI Release

eviware has released beta1 of soapUI 3.6 The new version contains many features, but is focused on supporting the release of eviware's new product loadUI. soapUI 3.6 also has Web Testing support.

Major New Features:

loadUI Integration

Makes it simple for you to run your Functional Tests created in soapUI as distributed Load Tests in loadUI

Web Testing

Web Services Improved recording functionality lets you record any Web-Based traffic and easily convert it into Functional Tests

Minor New Features:

* Improved WADL importer
* Improved viewing of attachments
* Improved synchronization and performance of MockServices
* Added setting to enable wordwrap in Raw message views
* Increased default memory setting in .sh files
* Added action to clear the current Workspace
* Added option to show namespaces in refactoring wizard

Major bugs fixed:

* Fixed adding of HTTP Query Parameters
* Fixed JDBC Assertions to handle connection errors
* Fixed parameter resolving in script properties
* Fixed showing of passwords in UI
* Fixed bundling of external resources in generated War files
* Several UI cleanups and minor bug-fixes
* Fixed all code-generation to work from command-line tools
* Fixed preview of -f argument in runner
* Fixed usage of correct soap version when refactoring
* Several fixes to JDBC-connection related functionality

Updated Libraries:

* Bundled JRE : 1.6_20

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Originally Published by : SOAP UI
For Information Visit: www.soapui.org
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SOA - Buzzword

GH Tester :Simulation, Stubs and Quality

The world of SOA and integration often involves disparate teams, sometimes in the same organisations, sometimes in different organisations. Integration projects for many years now have involved calling systems that may not exist yet or that cannot be used for testing. Green Hat offer a solution through their GH VIE (Virtualized Integration Environment) product, seamlessly integrated into GH Tester and able to provide production level performance simulation. Users can build simple stubs that return prefixed responses, make decisions based on inputs to return a variety of different responses, and even use datasheets to provide parameterised stub behaviours that can be extended simply by adding another row to a spreadsheet.

Stubs can be used during performance tests too, distributed out to allow theoretical limits of systems that might otherwise be limited by components too slow to cope with high transaction volumes, allowing exploration of what-if scenarios.

Stubs also play an important role with distributed teams, allowing testing to flow around bottlenecks and to enable teams to perform pre-integration with these stubs, reducing the possibility of fundamental errors being detected in the closing stages of the project.

Green Hat stubs are not limited to XML, web services or databases. A range of out-of-the-box industry protocols offers support for HL7, IATA, SWIFT and more on top of all the middleware protocols supported. A powerful user-extendable API allows customers to quickly build stubs for other systems, enabling testing where before it was impossible.

When GH Tester starts a test, it can automatically start the necessary stubs to go with it, ensuring that unresolved system dependencies can be provided with pre-canned behaviours. The user is in control of which stub is used, allowing a wide variety of different situations to be modelled, depending on the testing scenario.

Courtesty: Green Hat Consulting

SOA Case Study - Health Care

Use the following link to download the Case Study

http://www.2shared.com/document/huoFsdP0/casestudy.html

QEdge-Testing Team -Satyam

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