Mindreef Introduces SOAPscope Workstation for Web Services Testing, Diagnostics, Governance and Support
Tuesday 24 July 2007Mindreef product family expanded to include a cost-effective professional solution for individuals and small teams creating and maintaining high-quality web services and composite applications.
Mindreef®, Inc., the SOA Quality Company™, announced the general availability of Mindreef SOAPscope Workstation™, the newest addition to its award-winning SOAPscope® family of products for automated testing and debugging of Web services and SOA projects. With the addition of SOAPscope Workstation, Mindreef extends its strategy to provide SOAPscope solutions for entire teams enabling collaboration throughout the service lifecycle to individual developers testing and diagnosing XML problems.
The Mindreef product family comprises testing, diagnostics, governance and support tools that help analysts, architects, developers, testers, support engineers, consultants and managers understand and address Web services and SOA problems quickly and cost-effectively. Mindreef SOAPscope products are available in three versions:
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SOAPscope Server™ – is the industry’s most powerful collaborative SOA testing and quality management platform. It provides an integrated set of tools for SOA and Web services testing, design-time support, prototyping, change-time support, and run-time support. All of these are fully integrated into a single server-based platform with shared Service Spaces™ to facilitate effective collaboration and sharing of service assets and best practices.
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SOAPscope Workstation™ – is designed for individuals or small teams who are creating, building, maintaining and supporting Web services and would like similar capabilities to SOAPscope Server, but who do not need to be connected via a server for collaboration and sharing of service assets.
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SOAPscope® – is an entry-level desktop tool for developers new to Web services or just getting started. SOAPscope provides the ability to understand and invoke individual Web services and diagnose XML problems in an easy-to-understand human readable form.
SOAPscope Workstation and SOAPscope Server 6.0 or greater feature a plug-in software architecture for SOA testing, performance and quality that allows individuals and teams to add on modules and shared Service Spaces as their SOA implementations grow from tens to hundreds of services and become more complex. Available modules include:
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Mindreef Load Check™ – a powerful load testing add-on module that allows individuals or teams to test the performance and scalability of services before they leave development, identifying issues earlier in the lifecycle where they are easier to find and less costly to fix.
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Mindreef Policy Rules Manager™ – a design-time governance add-on module that provides the ability for organizations to establish SOA design standards by easily combining industry policy sets with customized organizational best practices, and then enforce compliance to those standards at design and development time.
The Mindreef product family was designed based on years of customer feedback to address the real-world needs of Web services and SOA team members. Mindreef Pseudocode View™ eliminates the complexities of understanding XML, translating angle-bracket code into human-readable data. The built-in Invoke, Record and Scenario Test features allow you to create unit, functional and regression tests without the need to write application programs.
"“The addition of SOAPscope Workstation is especially compelling by making robust, SOA testing and governance capabilities available to individuals and small testing teams at a fraction of the cost of other enterprise testing products,” said Jim Murphy, vice president of product management, Mindreef. “We’re pleased to offer SOAPscope products for everyone from individual developers and testers to teams of all sizes responsible for creating and deploying Web services and composite applications, and staying in lockstep with ever-changing Web services testing and SOA quality management requirements.”
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Mindreef SOAPscope products are available in either subscription or perpetual licensing options, or both. Mindreef Load Check and Policy Rules Manager are sold as individual add-on modules to Mindreef SOAPscope Workstation and SOAPscope Server version 6.0 or greater. For more information about licensing options or to request an evaluation copy, please contact Mindreef at sales@mindreef.com , (603) 465-2204 ext. 581, or visit www.mindreef.com .
