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

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Agility: can you afford it?

Every new generation of solutions that comes along - from yesterday’s CORBA to today’s cloud — promises ever greater “agility.” But it’s going to cost ya. Geek & Poke’s Oliver Widder hit the nail on the head a couple of years back on this point.


From Geek & Poke http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/

Joe McKendrick

Best Practices for Building Cloud-based Applications

Choosing a cloud platform, or building an application that you plan to deploy in the cloud? Here are a few best practices to make the process easier.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been dominating the enterprise IT world for the past few years by promoting the idea of loosely coupled services. Cloud computing is the latest IT trend that is changing how enterprise applications are deployed and delivered to consumers.

Visit any software vendor's website and you will notice that it is decorated with clouds. If you have recently interviewed for a job, your prospective employer would be shocked if you had not heard of this jargon. This article provides an introduction to cloud computing and offers a few best practices for building an application that you plan to deploy in the cloud.

Several characteristics of cloud computing benefit IT organizations. Some of the main characteristics and benefits are:

1. Pay per use -- One of the most important characteristics of cloud computing is its rental and pay-as-you-go model. This greatly lowers startup costs and total cost of ownership. You do not have to worry about purchasing expensive hardware and software licenses nor worry about availability, scalability, reliability and security aspects of your infrastructure, platform or application. You will be charged by the cloud vendor based on the actual usage of resources. This helps companies to focus on innovation and greatly reduces the time required to launch new products.

2. Computing resources available on the Internet -- The hardware and software resources are available on the Internet. These can be accessed by either developers to build and deploy applications or end users to perform their regular work.

3. On-demand and self-service -- The services are available on-demand and users can provision their services themselves. For instance, if you are a developer and you need an application server instance such as WebLogic Server for building and deploying your Java application, you can start a virtual machine running WebLogic Server from a self-service portal within a few minutes. You do not have to worry about locating hardware and installing software. This greatly improves productivity and leads to customer satisfaction.

Source: http://cloudcomputing.internet.com/developer/article.php/425130

Application Architecture!!!

How LinkedIn Is Taking Care of Business!

LinkedIn recently passed 100 million users, meaning its population is bigger than most countries. But what kind of country would LinkedInLand be? An old, rich, well-educated one.

According to the infographic below, created by Online MBA, 68% of LinkedIn users are 35 or older, 74% have a college degree or better and 39% make more than $100,000 a year. As those stats illustrate, although LinkedIn may not have the buzz of Facebook or Twitter right now, it has an enviable demographic base. The company also is profitable, fast-growing and expanding into new lines of business like news aggregation. As LinkedIn prepares to go public this year, here’s an overview of the phenomenon that Reid Hoffman created 8 years ago.



Source: http://mashable.com/2011/03/24/linkedin-overview-infographic/

Google removes 58 malicious apps from Android Market, uninstalls them from phones remotely too

Google was just faced with one of the bad sides of being as open as it is with its Android platform. Apparently some 58 malicious apps have infiltrated the Android Market and have managed to register 260 000 downloads before the security team axed them.






The nasty apps were uploading information about the hardware of the devices plus the Android version it was using without the user’s content. What’s worse, they were creating backdoors so more sensitive data could be downloaded in the future.

That’s why Google devs stepped in and remotely wiped the apps from the affected handsets and closed the exploits. Users of the affected handsets should receive an email soon that contains the report of the actions taken to nullify the threat.

The exploits existed only in older versons of the OS (prior to ver. 2.2.2). That’s why Google has also released a security patch through the Market to prevent similar apps from reusing those holes in the future.

Now we really hope Google learns its lesson and starts checking the apps in the Market more carefully. No one got hurt this time, but it would be in everyone’s best interest if there is no next time.


Source: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-android-market-security.html