For many projects and implementations, the cost of implementing a good quality assurance suite can cost as much as and even more than the implementation of the required functionality for the project itself. This is primarily due to the fact that with traditional project implementation, the interfaces and unit testing all involve proprietary interfaces.
When using a standards based SOA throughout your organization, it is possible to significantly reduce the costs associated with the creation of a fully functional QA suite. This is possible because when services are implemented using SOAP or REST based standards, there are a multitude of tools available freely or at minimal cost on the web.
Many of these tools enable testing of services using a configuration based approach. This facilitates the creation of QA suites without having to use programmers to code the test suites. The tools will import and understand how to call a service and then non programming resources can be used to drive the tests. This in itself represents the potential for massive savings.
Where more obscure tests are required, it is possible to drive services implemented using SOAP and REST using scripting languages like PHP or RUBY. There are many resources available that can program in these languages.
Finally a major issue with QA is that it can sometimes impact on the execution profile of a system because it runs on the same platform as the system. When standards are used, it’s possible to drive services built using these standards from a totally different system thus emulating more accurately what the real users will do to the system.
The SOA Gateway enables the creation of such services from base data access services to complex front end services to be made available to your customers
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