SOA Testing: An End-to-End Approach

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is more than just a new name for web services. The reality is that SOA implementations are a combination of web components, mid-tier components, as well as back-end and legacy systems. Enterprises are using SOA to integrate disparate systems into cohesive business processes by reusing in-tact systems and leveraging messaging and integration.

The challenge of testing the SOA is that processes flow across application stacks and technologies. Unlike preceding generations of client-server and mainframe systems, SOA systems are not screen-centric but integration-centric. This poses a unique challenge for testing methodologies which rely heavily on screen verification to validate the integrity of the entire process.

Solstice addresses the unique challenges of testing SOA integration by tackling the issues presented in each layer of the SOA, whether service-based, message-based or transport-based. Solstice supports many of today's leading Enterprise Service Bus offerings, including webMethods, TIBCO and MQ, as well as HTTPS providing true end-to-end testing for SOAs.