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SOA testing tools advance

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 platform for managing processes and automating software testing. ITKO is announcing availability of Lisa 4 SOA Testing, a product suite for testing SOA.

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Mindreef Introduces SOAPscope Workstation for Web Services Testing, Diagnostics, Governance and Support

Mindreef 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.

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Automating What You Can’t See: Testing Middleware for the Enterprise

Read about the problems of testing SOA middleware applications and the requirements for the tools, and discover one solution that has been in use for over a year, has executed hundreds of thousands of tests, and certifies the functionality of systems that execute over a billion transactions per month.

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The Foundation of SOA Quality

This paper explores the many facets of SOA Quality and the primary technology elements that make up the Foundation of SOA Quality.

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UDDI in possible catch-22 suggests Bob Sutor of IBM

Tuesday 10 September 2002

Article at Varbusiness.com gives an overview of UDDI, and suggests explanations for some of its current problems, quoting Bob Sutor as saying "You need to have a registry to get the growth of Web services, but you need a whole bunch of Web services to put in the registry to make it useful"

Finding the Right Formula For UDDI

http://www.varbusiness.com/sections/news/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=37258

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"In order for Web services to proliferate, customers and solution providers should be looking at UDDI as a key component of that infrastructure. Sutor describes it as a catch-22. "You need to have a registry to get the growth of Web services, but you need a whole bunch of Web services to put in the registry to make it useful," Sutor says.

So, what will make UDDI useful? It's likely to proliferate within organizations for sharing business logic among applications. For example, Microsoft's Kurt says, if an enterprise wants to make a change-of-address service originally built for an HR application for other apps, a UDDI registry can help internal developers, or even end users, find the software components and business rules for using those programs. "

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