Thursday, November 09, 2006

Testing SOA Applications And Services

This is an article from the November edition of the EuroSTAR Newsletter - STARTester, written by by Colin Robb, Mercury, UK. You can view the complete newsletter by clicking here and don't forget to subscribe to receive future issues.

Few other innovations in IT offer the transformative potential of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), and Gartner estimates that by 2008, 80 percent of IT initiatives will be service-oriented.

The basis of SOA is not new - composite business applications made up of separate, distributed services which can be shared and reused, from internal or external sources - we've seen it before in guises such as CORBA. However, it is the adoption of global standards which is driving the current popularity of the SOA approach.


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