Here an article covering SOAPSonar 6.0, the leading SOA Testing product. The latest version provide a number of capabilities including testing cloud providers as well as testing using clouds.
For detailed article, see: SOAPSonar 6.0 from Crosscheck Networks Capable of Testing Unlimited Users in Cloud
Jack Vaughn, Editor-in-Chief of SearchSOA published this article on real life scenarios in SOA Testing and general SOA adoptions trends. Article highlights are as follows:
Here is an interesting article by Rob Barry titled: "In SOA, cloud resources may exacerbate security and file transfers issues." It highlights significant requirements for Federated SOA especially around large file transfer using Web services attachments. The article makes the following interesting points:
Here's an interesting article that talks about SOAPSonar vs. SOAPUI.
SOAPUI vs. SOAPSonar
SOAPSonar has been dominant in the SOA Testing space and is the only product that provides comprehensive SOA Testing across Functional, Performance, Interoperability and Security domains. Crosscheck Networks, the provider of SOAPSonar, recently acquired Forum Systems. With this acquisition, Crosscheck Networks now provides a wide array of integrated product offerings that comprehensively covers services life cycle across building, testing and securing SOA deployments.
In my discussions with engineers at Crosscheck Networks, I have come across an interesting use case in the health care industry where HL7 v3 - an ANSI health care standard modeling clinical, administrative, pharmacy, medical devices and imaging domains - is being deployed by the Dutch Government. The Dutch government's aggressive health care initiative in building a nationwide Health Information Broker (HIB) can serve as a good model for the current US Administration that is considering transforming US health care through nationwide electronic medical records (EMR) as one of its key policy initiatives.
Figure 1: Configuring Schematron 1.5 Criteria Rules for HL7 v3 in SOAPSimulator
Figure 2: Configuring ISO Schematron Criteria Rules for HL7 v3 in SOAPSimulator
I have finally moved over from XP to Mac and I am loving it. Now I do have a number of applications that I will probably not migrate away from - such as the MS Office Suite that I purchased for my MacBook Pro - it works like a charm and has a number of goodies that weren't available on my XP.
Every tree counts, and every page that we don't print matters. Now we all know that organizations are changing from paper-based processes to electronic processes by using data transmission standards such as MTOM mostly as a cost saving and improved services level measure. But a great side effect that is often not reinforced is the fact that we are improving planet Earth by not cutting down trees and creating undue waste.
By enabling enterprise to rapidly deploy technologies such as MTOM, we can collectively accelerate electronic processing of documents. It's a win-win for everyone: Companies save money and improve processing efficiencies and our environment improves.
SOA Testing tools such as SOAPSonar provide a rapid way of testing your MTOM deployments. The following article will get you jump-started on using and testing MTOM in your enterprise - and perhaps save some trees:
Introduction to MTOM: A hands-on Approach
Crosscheck Networks recently released SOAPSonar 3.0 - the next generation of SOA Testing products with a broad array of new testing features and techniques tailored for SOA Developer, Testor and QA Professionals.
Enterprise ITPlanet Staff published a review of SOAPSonar 3.0 highlighting significant product areas and features.
http://products.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/security/1184252855.html
