Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: August 2007
Product Code: R464-654Description If only SOA were a brand. Like Virgin and Easy, SOA is the prefix to just about everything marketed to IT organisations these days, including software testing. However, the term SOA testing isn’t right. SOA entails little that is unique for testing - it certainly does not have its own test techniques, nor is there a generic SOA test process. What, then, do suppliers mean when they speak about SOA testing and SOA testing tools? It varies. Because the term is bandied about and badly cast, end-user organisations need to look closely at what they are being offered. It might be as little as support for testing web services. It might mean tackling a whole cluster of higher-level issues surrounding SOA lifecycle, management and governance. Very little of it will be relevant to your test teams alone.
Table of Contents - Key messages
- SOA does not need a separate testing discipline
- Open-endedness and trust shape the scope and priorities of testing
- Good SOA governance and management are a boon to testing
- SOA testing is a misnomer
- SOA, testing and quality assurance
- Web services, servers and the missing human interface
- Test scope and priorities
- Leveraging SOA governance and management in testing
- Beyond service testing: SOA quality assurance
- SOA testing and tools
- SOA as an integration testing model for applications
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