webMethods® Platform Library

For webMethods, it is all about being faster.  Faster implementation of a new Fabric upon which to assemble and integrate key business operations.  Faster connection of system, application and partner interactions.  Faster adoption of SOA throughout an enterprise.  Faster bottom line results on both new technology and the business that technology empowers.

As the webMethods community migrates from an integration focus to a SOA focus, being faster involves challenges other than just time.  The new SOA lifecycle of design-time, run-time and change-time anticipates more heterogeneous environments, multiple users of the same services and systems, and an expectation that common services guarantee processes that will work the same every time.  As the environment becomes more complex, business requirements for no coding and technology working in the hands of non-technical people demand new testing technology.  The need for a comprehensive, automated testing solution specific to webMethods is greater is only going to increase with the migration to SOA and a well-governed environment.

Ensuring quality when building composite applications using webMethods Fabric requires a two-pronged testing approach. First, you need to be able isolate and validate individual services and components against precise functional, performance, security and interoperability requirements. Second, as you assemble and deploy business processes, you need to validate the execution of those processes. Every connection point between components represents a possible point of failure that needs to be tested.

Solstice Integra Platform Library for webMethods enables testing across the breadth of the webMethods Fabric environment, including business process management, business integration, and SOA management. As a Platform Library, it plugs seamlessly into Solstice Integra Test Automation to provide a complete end-to-end automated testing solution. Testers can build comprehensive SOA testing scenarios that span both web services and the underlying enterprise services infrastructure that supports them. All of the core unit, acceptance, integration and end-to-end testing capabilities are supported across the native transports used by webMethods.

Features

• Integration Server
  • Execute services and validate their responses against expected results
  • Simulate individual services without writing code
  • Correlate service and message flow across multiple IS and Broker instances
  • Monitor service execution with full pipeline visibility
• Broker
  • Publish/deliver messages; optionally wait for and validate replies against expected results
  • Record publish/subscribe messaging interactions
  • Simulate a broker document consumer, accepting incoming document requests and publishing/delivering replies
  • Expose and validate Integration Server data types within broker documents
• Trading Networks
  • Submit encoded requests to partners
  • Simulate external partner conversations
• Modeler
  • View and validate process-level meta-data
  • Record, correlate and replay process instances
• Perform web services and message-level validation across other industry-standard transports (HTTPS, FTP, JDBC, SQL)

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