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SOA Testing Tools

 

Mercury

Quick Test, Service Test, LoadRunner, and Quality Center are presented together as an SOA testing solution. These tools cater to functional testing, regression test automation, and performance testing.

The acquisition of Systinet Corp has added SOA-specific testing capabilities to the Mercury test suite.

Parasoft SOAtest

An automated web services testing tool that provides WSDL validation, unit and functional testing, and performance testing. The tool addresses interoperability, security, scalability, and change management challenges in SOA.

Green Hat GH Tester

A tool for message-based systems that supports protocols like JMS and SOAP. It supports products such as SONIC MQ and TIBCO RV.

AdventNet QEngine

A web-based test automation tool supported on multiple platforms (built using Java). It provides functional and performance testing for web applications and web services.

Borland SilkPerformer SOA Edition

A tool for testing web services. It supports both functional and performance testing.

SOAP UI

An open-source desktop application used for inspecting, invoking, and developing web services over HTTP. It supports functional, load, and compliance testing.

The maturity of this tool should be assessed and evaluated based on specific organizational SOA requirements.

PushToTest TESTMAKER

An open-source framework for building test agents to check web applications for scalability, functionality, and performance. These agents mimic user behavior.

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