SOAtest Product Overview

Parasoft SOAtest is a comprehensive, collaborative test and analysis tool suite designed specifically for test and validation of Service Oriented Architectures. Parasoft SOAtest streamlines the process of rapidly constructing robust regression suites. It features the following major benefits:

• Delivers a "quality" process NOT solely dependent on QA
• Makes SOA quality assets valuable to the entire organization
• Drives SOA consistency
• Rapidly generates and manages robust regression suites
• Saves time and ensures project success

In addition, Parasoft SOAtest includes the following features:

• Microsoft .NET WCF Support: In its continued efforts to be "SOA-Aware", Parasoft SOAtest is now also "WCF-Aware". The SOAP Client tool can invoke Windows Communication Foundation (.Net 3.0) Web services that use the TCP and HTTP transport. The new bindings supported are netTcpBinding and wsHttpBinding, which includes use of WS-Trust/WS-SecureConversation and WS-Security 1.1.
• Integration with Microsoft VSTS: Parasoft SOAtest streamlines SOA testing for users of Microsoft VSTS Software Tester Edition. Integration with MS VSTS allows for the management and execution of test projects while obtaining results directly from Visual Studio. Creation and modification of SOAtest tests inside the test project file still requires use of SOAtest's own user interface.
• Automated Stub Creation and Deployment from Existing Test Suites: Parasoft SOAtest can quickly and easily automate server emulation across multiple environments, thereby streamlining the collaborative development and testing activities of multiple teams and ultimately speeding the SDLC. Users can interact with a real service by visually designing the traffic flow into a runnable scenario. Then, based on this interaction, automatically turn the resulting scenario into a stub that emulates the service behavior.
• Continuous Load Testing: The Load Test Continuum is a TCM (Team Configuration Manager) platform plug-in, which allows users to collect SOAtest load test data within the TCM server and access it through the browser interface. This enables users to track performance of services throughout the SDLC, thus discovering and resolving issues before they become a problem.
• Advanced XML Validation: The XML Assertor tool allows users to easily create and maintain validation assertions on their XML messages. This feature also expands support for complex message validation without the need for scripting.

Parasoft SOAtest is packaged and licensed in the following editions designed to separate functionality to specific roles and processes in the typical software development environment:

• SOAtest Professional Edition
• SOAtest Enterprise Edition

Edition details are described in SOAtest Editions and Licenses.

To learn more about SOAtest, see:

• SOAtest Data Sheet
• SOAtest Technical Papers
• SOAtest Reviews
• SOA Quality Solution
• Application Security Solution

Features

• Streamlined and intuitive GUI for common testing activities.
• WSDL schema and semantic verification and compliance to WS-I.
• SOAP, PoX (Plain XML) REST, JSON, and BPEL support.
• EJB Testing.
• Asynchronous testing.
• Various WS-* standards support
• MTOM(XOP)/MIME/DIME Attachment support.
• UDDI support: query verification, validation, and load testing.
• Data-driven testing through data sources
• Fully reuse functional tests for load testing
• Apply expected QoS (Quality of Service) metrics to load tests.
• Automate load test execution and track performance metrics throughout the SDLC.
• Integrations with Quality Center, TestManager and VSTS Edition for Testers.
• Security penetration testing.

Benefits

• Enable distributed teams and business partners to emulate components that they do not control.
• Validate messages with complex XML semantics easily, without scripting.
• Promote and reuse test assets in a distributed environment and across teams.
• Govern development and enforce adherence to standards and best practices.
• Prevent errors, pinpoint weaknesses, and stress test long before deployment.
• Verify data integrity and server/client functionality.
• Ensure the reliability, quality, security and interoperability of your services.

Protocol Support

• HTTP 1.0, 1.1, HTTPS
• TCP/IP, SMTP
• .NET WCF Net TCP
• JMS, IBM MQ, TIBCO Rendezvous, EJB, RMI
• JDBC

Technology Platforms

• BEA
  • Integration with ALER (AquaLogic Enterprise Repository)
  • Test MQ, JMS, EJB and Web services on WebLogic
  • WebLogic JMX performance monitoring
• IBM
  • Integration with Rational TestManager
  • Test JMS, EJB and Web services on WebSphere
  • WebSphere JMX performance monitoring
• Microsoft
  • Integration with Visual Studio Team System, Tester Edition
  • Test .NET WSE and WCF services
• Software AG
  • Integration with CentraSite
  • Test webMethods Web services

OS Platforms

• Windows 2000/XP and Vista
• Linux
• Solaris

System Requirements

• Windows
  • Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
  • At least 512 MB RAM per processor (1024 MB is recommended for load testing)
• Unix
  • At least 512 MB RAM per processor (1024 MB is recommended for load testing)