SOA Testing.. How different is this from the Testing we have been doing all along?
SOA Testing is understood to be testing the building blocks of SOA , the services . This is evolving day by day as SOA being accepted as the mantra for business agility. There are many products in the market that help in automate testing of services. It would be fair to say that these products/tools are more or less webservice centric.
In artilce titled Adjusting Testing for SOA , David Linthicum talks about the the changes in testing approach, SOA brings to the table.
He concentrates on testing services ( Testing the Core) and makes a mention of the complexities related to service security and governance can bring to testing without elaborating on them.
In his words...
"Considering that, when testing services (for example, Web services, Java EE, etc.) you have to think about a few things, including autonomy, integration, granularity, stability and performance, in the particular order of your requirements"
Miko Matsumura in his article SOA Testing Hubub extends the concpet to SOA Governance.
He adds..
"As such, the testing group is a party concerned with the concept of quality. Therefore thier ability to create policy assertions that define their concerns and expectations around quality creates their participation in governance. Now the “enforcement point” for testing may be a quality system such as the Mindreefs, iTKO, Parasoft, PushToTest, or Solstice type system"
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