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SOA performance shouldnt sentence you to re-living Groundhog Day

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:13:25GMT

After all the features are checked off on the desired listafter all the internal discussion and debateafter all the soul-searching about whether particular SOA technology is the right fit for a specific application or business, what matters most?

ADTmag.com: Will ActiveVOS usher in a new wave of application development?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:00:00GMT

In a new article about ActiveVOS on ADTmag.com, John K. Waters writes on adtmag.com that industry analysts are listening to the message we have for SOA and BPM developers.

Can Virtual Environments take Performance & Load Testing?

Wed, 28 May 2008 17:24:35GMT

We've talked a lot in previous posts about how the practice and technology of Virtualization really has legs -- it keeps moving forward, from hardware virtualization, virtual test beds, to virtual endpoints, to actually simulating the behavior of the software itself, which we're calling Service-Oriented Virtualization (or "SOV" if you need a TLA for it).

WS-FalseSecurity: Are you at risk?

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:22:03GMT

In our previous post , we mentioned how the notion of standards in SOA can be just the opposite. This is largely because the standards are generally generated by whatever tool you are using to create services its not something you construct by hand. Compliance is never a 100% proposition.

Wring ROI out of your UDDI Registry/Repository by plugging in SOA Validation

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:59:28GMT

Weve been talking about validating SOA Governance approaches for three years now, but surprisingly, we have found that very few enterprise IT shops of any serious scale are actually using them to their potential at this point. I had lunch yesterday with one of our wily gurus on this topic, Ken Ahrens, and he aptly noticed that the practice of SOA Governance just hasnt kept up with the grand expectations we had of it. Why?

The Continuous 'C'

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:47:58GMT

A real life experience that typified why iTKO's test strategy called the Three Cs has Complete as one of those Cs...

Feeling Crushed under the SOA Data requirement?

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:19:45GMT

One of the most difficult obstacles to attaining enterprise-ready SOA is the sheer scale of the systems and data that need to be managed. To test the actual results of an SOA application, we need a very realistic set of data both positive and negative to input, and then get out of the environment under test.

Business Process Validation

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:47:15GMT

One of the primary goals of SOA is to model applications closer to the way that business processes actually function.

Survey Results: What does the WS-Testing Community Think?

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:17:40GMT

Almost a year ago, we released the first edition of our free WS-* only version of LISA, in LISA WS-Testing . Now as we near 10,000 downloads, we wanted to know how teams are progressing in their adoption of Web Services testing as a part of the greater SOA quality assurance process.

An Intro to SOA and Virtualization

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:11:54GMT

Ive been asked a number of times recently by industry peers and technology journalists about virtualization as it relates to SOA.

The Divorce Was Overdue - But it's not yet over...

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:56:11GMT

Can we just call it quits for the days of equating SOA with Web Services?

Software cycles: Back to Interoperability

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:29:22GMT

The importance to help out customers in areas like portability and interoperability, as well as standards compliance when developing products.

The Complete C

Thu, 10 May 2007 20:14:22GMT

Fundamental to our thinking around SOA Testing best practices are what we call the Three Cs: Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous.

SOA, Agile, and XML Software Development

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:45:39GMT

SOA is an architecture, Agile is a methodology. One describes how we organize our resources, the later describes practices to use our resources to achieve our goals. Asking if SOA and Agile are compatible is similar to asking if Object Oriented Design and Agile are compatible: the difference is the level of scale.

More on SOA, Agile, and TDD

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:53:50GMT

Share tests? How is that done? How does a .NET person share their test with a legacy COBOL person?

The Big WS-Difference

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:52:47GMT

The biggest difference between web services testing and full SOA testing is the concept of testing implementation and side-effects as opposed to just the middleware layer.

Governance Tools -- Buyers Beware

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:10:23GMT

While several vendors have a fairly common definition of a Governance, its entirely too inadequate to really suffice for a complete, robust, or end-all-be-all solution.

The Multi-Core Dilemma

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:09:16GMT

How to run multiple instances concurrently on multiple cores and still ensure a particular order? Software Pipelines as an approach that can be used to abstract the threading model out of the application code.

Global SOA - Quality = A World of Trouble?

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:33:20GMT

Continuous SOA Lifecycle Quality testing to prove functional integrity has huge returns for the business

SOA Phase 2 From the Horse-drawn Carriage to the Car

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:31:35GMT

Technologies that are designed for SOA have been around for several years and are ready for prime time. For those of you driving toward SOA, the 2nd phase of SOA will provide your "car".