Saturday, June 23, 2012

Testing Tools in SOA and Cloud Era


Traditionally when an organization or project team talks about quality, the focus is about functional testing, regression testing & load/stress testing and the market place had been dominated by few players like IBM, Micro Focus and HP/Mercury supplying the necessary tools to meet customers demand. But recent technological advancement in the area of SOA/ESB, cloud and Business Process Management (BPM) has redefined the quality management market and many new players are trying to unsettle the so called leaders in this market space.
LISA

Now a days organizations are looking for tools to not only to improve the software quality but also to improve their productivity in quality related activities which eventually leads to reduction in the time to market as a way to increase their business bottom line.  Also the competition in the quality market space are heating up with the advent of new players like iTKO's LISA, Parasoft's SOATest, Crosscheck Networks SOAPSonar etc., at times when the most of the applications that being developed are shifting from client/server or vanilla Web applications to SOA based, which consists of Web Services/ESB and cloud based, which combine services running internally and services deployed on cloud-provided services.

At a macro level, few open source tools are also playing a vital role such as:
  • soapUI, a complete and automated testing solution which provides support from SOAP- and REST-based  Web services, to JMS enterprise messaging layers, databases, Rich Internet Applications, and much more.
  • WebInject(Perl based) tool for automated testing of web applications and web services.
  • TestMaker offers an easier way to expose the performance bottlenecks, functional issues in Web, Rich Internet Applications (RIA using Ajax, Flex) SOA and BPM applications.

SOAtest

With quality management area still very volatile as  growing number of vendors continues to enter the market on one side and vendor consolidation such as acquisition of iTKO by CA Technologies and Green Hat by IBM happening at the other side,  the coming years will be very interesting for organizations, developer and QA team involved in SOA, BMP and Cloud application developments.

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