Quocirca's Straight Talking: Firms are falling down on security... Improved efficiency, new services, access to legacy apps - the advantages of service-oriented architecture seem endless. But there is ...

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Mindreef and iTKO are making separate moves Tuesday in the SOA testing space. Mindreef has integrated its SOAPscope Server SOA and Web services testing software with HP Quality Center, a centralized ...

Before the recent move to service-oriented architectures, application testing mostly called for ensuring that a software application performed as it was designed, could handle specific loads and could ...

SOA solutions and blueprints require quite a few critical decisions during design and implementation. The same applies to testing these solutions, as it is not just functionality and performance one ...

With all of the focus on the proper design of business services, business alignment, and SOA governance, sometimes the challenges that SOA creates for testers is overlooked early on in SOA initiatives ...

Expertise isn’t the only thing that distinguishes the players involved in creating a service-oriented architecture. Location, too, is a factor, as Wachovia has learned. Expertise isn’t the only thing ...

There are many dimensions to SOA testing. They include services, processes, and performance. Service-level testing is the most important, since core services are the foundation of the SOA. However, ...

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 ...

Chris Benedetto, VP Marketing, Solstice Software, provided some thoughtful insights in response to my recent post on the SOA implications of HP's pending $4.5-billion acquisition of Mercury ...