Mindreef Releases SOAPscope Server 6.0 and Load Check
Monday 21 May 2007Leading SOA quality platform with new expandable architecture; Introduces cost-effective module for performance and load checking early in the development cycle
Mindreef®, Inc.,The SOA Quality Company™, announced SOAPscope ServerTM 6.0, featuring a new plug-in software architecture for SOA testing, performance and quality that enables test-driven development of Web services and composite applications. SOAPscope Server 6.0 has been expanded to support add-on modules – the first of which is Load Check™.
Load Check significantly reduces the complexity and cost of load testing and makes it available to the entire service team, not just a few specialists responsible for running load tests. The expandable SOAPscope Server architecture allows teams to add modules specific to their needs as their SOA implementations grow from tens to hundreds of services and become more complex.
"In a related announcement, Mindreef customers and partners praise the enhancements in SOAPscope Server 6.0 and Load Check (see: http://home.mindreef.com/news /). A free whitepaper addressing the importance of agile load checking for SOA quality is available at: http://home.mindreef.com/whitepaper_impact.html .
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New Load Check Module Breaks SOA Performance Barriers
In the past, load testing has consistently been complex, expensive and often implemented at the end of a lifecycle – causing costly delays when performance and scalability bottlenecks are discovered too late to effectively locate or address them. Mindreef Load Check brings powerful new easy-to-use testing features to the very beginning of the service lifecycle. This gives development and QA teams the ability to incrementally test and load check services during all stages of SOA development, without requiring specialized performance testing skills.
Testing early and often allows everyone on the service team – from management to line engineers – to have visibility and understanding of the performance of each service well before it heads toward production. Performance problems and bottlenecks are easily identified and corrected as they happen, prior to being formally load tested by the corporate performance team, preventing “baked in” issues that are costly and time consuming to re-engineer at the last minute.
Load Check is extremely easy to use by anyone during all stages of development; any team member can start load checking a Web service in less than an hour and view results using a human-readable interface. Load Check leverages the Scenario Testing capability in SOAPscope Server 6.0 to support testing for multiple orchestrated scenarios. This means that load is added to the service in the same way that composite applications will be using the services.
When used with SOAPscope Server 6.0, Load Check allows service teams to:
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Quickly and easily check load and validate daily builds;
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Avoid project delays and performance deficiencies due to last-minute testing;
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Be fully prepared as they go to the formal corporate performance lab; and
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Pay one fixed price for the module, with no per “virtual user” costs.
"“SOA quality goes far beyond Web Services testing; Mindreef's focus on the design-time, run-time, and change-time aspects of SOA Quality Management shows how well Mindreef delivers on what SOA teams need today,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink. “The new version of SOAPscope Server with Load Check underscores Mindreef’s leadership position in the industry with an expandable architecture to address SOA quality and performance issues today and in the future.”
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"“Mindreef Load Check makes performance testing and load checking available early in the lifecycle – this has been a growing demand from our customers and something not available to them until now,” said Jim Murphy, Vice President of Product Management at Mindreef. “We’ve had performance teams at several large companies request solutions for services to be well tested before arriving at their performance labs. The Mindreef team has received enthusiastic feedback from our beta sites that SOAPscope Server 6.0 with Load Check is accomplishing the task plus allowing teams to utilize test-driven development techniques to confidently build high-quality services and pinpoint performance and scalability issues early and cost effectively.”
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SOAPscope Server 6.0 for SOA Performance, Testing and Quality
SOAPscope Server 6.0 provides development and testing teams with easy-to-use, automated tools for performance and load checking, test automation, design-time governance and interactive ad-hoc testing. All of these are fully integrated into a single server-based platform to facilitate effective collaboration and sharing of service assets and best practices. In addition to Mindreef Load Check, SOAPscope Server 6.0 introduces other key product enhancements and features. These include:
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Named endpoint mapping - allows services to be easily tested in different environments, such as development, testing, and production;
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Test suites - pulls together multiple scenario tests into an automated regression test with graphical results and PDF reports;
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Service Spaces - makes it possible to support multiple service teams on one SOAPscope server; and
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Policy Rules Manager™ - easy-to-author policy validation rules and validation of services, making your design-time governance complete.
