Mindreef eyes automated Web service tests
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(InfoWorld) - Mindreef plans to expand its Web services testing capabilities in the second quarter of this year to automate test scenarios based on WSDL contracts. Load testing for Web services also is a focus for the company, which makes software for Web services testing and SOA quality management. With the planned Test Suites addition to the company's SOAPscope Server product, users will be able to automate multitudes of tests instead of having to perform them manually, said Jim Murphy, vice president of product management at Mindreef. "Our customers have been building up these scenarios but now they may have dozens, hundreds, or thousands of these scenarios they've been building up," said Murphy. With Test Suites, users could have multiple, automated tests run every night, he said. An example of a Web service test scenario would be one that logs into a central authentication service, checks credentials for an order entry system, and then passes this information to order management and inventory management systems. Featured as part of the Test Suites capability will be an interface to automate the execution of test scenarios. "It's kind of just taking it up a level of abstraction," Murphy said. The capability builds upon current SOAPscope functionality. "What we provide right now is more of an ad hoc testing," for Web services, said Frank Grossman, co-founder and CTO of Mindreef. Right now, it is easy to invoke a service and check the values coming back, but this does not make it easy to fully automate the process, Grossman said. In the load testing arena, Mindreef plans to add Load Test, featuring easy-to-use functional test tools, to SOAPscope Server. These tools would be usable by persons not experienced with XML, said Murphy. The intent is to provide load testing at the earliest stage of the development cycle. Load testing can check for transaction volumes against Web services endpoints, for example, Murphy said. Mindreef reported this week that it doubled sales in 2006 over 2005 and surpassed 3,000 customers and 43,000 downloads of its SOAPscope products.
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BEA Systems on Thursday is unveiling a free Web-based tool to measure a customerâs âbaselineâ for pursuing an SOA (service-oriented architecture), and also is bolstering professional service offerings.
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In a new post to her blog today, Ligaya Turmelle mentions a conversation she was having with some of the PHP documentation team about their transitions and the possibilities for integrating something new into the system - creating phpt tests automatically.   Seems Philip and colder were talking on the IRC about possibly using the php doc examples to automatically generate some phpt tests to make sure the examples in the docs worked correctly. I personally think it is a great idea for another reason - it would give the QA team a base listing of phpt tests for the various PHP functions. With that base listing it would be easier to modify/add to the various phpt tests to cover the boundries of the function.   A script to implement this feature is already in the works - a preview of it can even be found here.
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BEA Systems said it will release a test version of its latest WebLogic Server software later this month and detailed product delivery plans for next year.
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(Source: HP)  This paper offers a structured approach to planning and implementing HP Quality Center software, an integrated, web-based suite of tools and best practices for automated software quality testing.
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Company will focus on Web properties such as Sourceforge.net and Slashdot.
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Software AG plans to unveil details of Version 7.1 of the webMethods business process management suite on Wednesday, along with a new enterprise service bus (ESB) and a supply chain performance optimization tool.
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Company is testing Java System Application Server 8--and hoping that it'll boost the company's share of the Java server software market.
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Here's a way to test your Web savvy: Have you  searched for the word Bebo?
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AMD, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems have announced the publication of Web Services Management (WS-Management), a Web services specification that addresses the cost and complexity of
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New products to build Web services with Eclipse, e-commerce apps with Amazon's technology, and more.
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Google is testing a new Web service intended to become a repository of knowledge from experts on various topics, one that could turn into a competitor to Wikipedia and other sites.
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Medical software developer uses Web services to answer the call to do more with less.
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Boasting of a one-of-a-kind solution for the application development lifecycle, Bungee Labs is launching the public beta Tuesday of Bungee Connect, an on-demand platform for Web application development and deployment.Featured is a full gamut of tools and services to build and host applications. "Bungee Connect is a single platform for the development, testing, deployment, and hosting of rich Web applications," said Lyle Ball, Bungee Labs' vice president of marketing.With the platform, developers can collaborate to build Web applications leveraging multiple Web services and databases. Applications are deployed on Bungee Labs' multi-tenant grid infrastructure and can be SaaS-based or offered as stand-alone Web destinations. They are accessed via popular browsers.Rather than developers having to assemble disparate pieces such as IDE, an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) toolkit, and testing and collaboration tools, Bungee provides all these capabilities."Developers log onto Bungee Connect. It's in the cloud and it's a hosted environment," Ball said.Bungee describes its product as a platform-as-a-service system, in which the entire software development lifecycle can be supported on the same computing environment to reduce costs, risks, and time to market.?Because Bungee Connect is entirely based on-demand, users can build and deploy applications without installing or configuring servers and can connect to multiple Web services from within a single environment, said Brad Hintze, Bungee director of product marketing."I think it's got some very interesting benefits because it's managing to integrate development and deployment but in a service environment, so it allows for a developer to [have] access to tools," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. "It also at the same time gives them a place to deploy their applications without having to worry," about run-time choices and operational issues," he said.Bungee also provides a way to mash up with other Web services, Gardner said. Bungee is "on to something" that is a harbinger of things to come in creating a seamless relationship between development and deployment, he said.As part of its launch, Bungee is offering reference applications, including a calendar application, WideLens, which integrates Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce.com, Google Calendar, and other sources. These applications serve as examples of integration offered on Bungee Connect; source code for the applications can be imported into any Bungee Connect account, modified, and used in commercial endeavors.AJAX-enabled applications can be built and embedded within other Web applications, in SaaS solutions, or offered as a stand-alone Web destination.Interactivity is delivered via AJAX but developers themselves do not write any AJAX. They use the Bungee Logic programming language for building application logic while the UI is built using a drag-and-drop metaphor. Bungee Logic features a C-style syntax and acts like Microsoft's Visual Studio development platform, Hintze said."We automate AJAX interactivity," while developers focus on creating applications and value, Ball said.Development, collaboration and test deployment are free of charge on Bungee Connect; developers only pay when applications are used. Through a utility-based pricing model, businesses can expect to pay between $2 to $5 per user per month for a heavily used business productivity application or fractions of a cent per e-commerce transaction.Bungee's grid infrastructure provides data on application usage patterns. Applications are hosted free during the Bungee Connect Public Beta program. The public beta program is expected to continue until the end of 2008, whereupon Bungee would launch the general release of its service."And [then] the world is a different place," Ball said. Some 40 developers worked to deliver Bungee Connect, according to Bungee Labs.
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Empirix on Monday is adding collaborative load testing for Web applications and Web services to its e-Test suite.
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Web services are becoming increasingly popular for linking software programs. Now, Microsoft and some other big companies are pitching the technology as a way to manage everything from big corporate servers to mobile phones.
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Microsoft Corp. will start testing on  Tuesday an Internet video-sharing service called Soapbox, the  software company's answer to Web sensation YouTube.