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SOA and Web Services Testing

What is Web Service Testing

SOA testing is much different from browser, client/server and mainframe testing.

1. In SOA testing, the services based on various technologies are used.

 Hence, there is no scope for unified group testing, single project testing, single application server nor delivery through a standardized browser interface. Here the ability to bring together various components helps to bring business workflow.

 

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Basics for Testings

Service Oriented Architecture – Defined

Service Oriented Architecture is a business-centric architectural approach used for supporting business systems, services and repetitive functions.

The design primarily depends/revolves around service, hence emphasis on ‘service-orientation’. In service-orientation architecture, loosely coupled services are used, where there is exchange relationship amongst the systems or organizations. It links various resources like applications and data. SOA can be implemented using any service-based technology, though there are web service specifications/standards like SOAP, which enable greater interoperability, besides eliminating vendor...

 

Integrating Six Sigma With Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Businesses need to realize the fact that SOA works well only when it is integrated with time-tested quality improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma.

For proof, they just need to look at the work records of businesses that are reaping the benefits of SOA after integrating it with Six Sigma concepts and methodologies.

 

Challenges of SOA Testing

Why is SOA testing such a different beast than previous forms of browser, client/server and mainframe testing? Many of the benefits of SOA become challenges to testing an SOA application.

 

How to approach Web Service Testing ?

In many ways testing a Web service is no different then testing anything else. You still do all the same steps of the test method, but some of them can take on a bit of a different flavor.

 
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