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.
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.
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.
This paper explores the many facets of SOA Quality and the primary technology elements that make up the Foundation of SOA Quality.
Frank Grossman serves as Mindreef’s president and technology leader. Frank helped found Mindreef on the belief that the evolving migration to highly distributed applications and SOA will require collaborative tools at the XML software layer. Frank and Jim Moskun previously founded of NuMega Technologies, Inc., the developer of the award winning Soft-Ice, BoundsChecker and DevPartner products and leaders in the Windows error detection and debugging market. NuMega was successfully sold to Compuware Corporation. Prior to co-founding NuMega, Frank worked at Wang Laboratories where he worked with Jim Moskun. Frank brings more than 20 years of intense technical expertise in the development of software tools. Grossman holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Bowling Green University.
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.
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