Parasoft Resources Center: Cloud, API, SOA

API Testing Maturity Model   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Parasoft's API Testing Maturity Model helps organizations set realistic expectations for adopting and optimizing API Testing solutions.

Exposing Your APIs = Opening Your Home to Bears?   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Exposing an API to your application is as risky as installing a doggie door into your house—as a recent incident with a bear aptly illustrates.

Service Virtualization Definition   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Provides a service virtualization definition, presents key service virtualization benefits, and explores service virtualization ROI.

Service Virtualization ROI   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn about the business drivers behind service virtualization purchase decisions, as well as the opportunities for ROI via OpEx reduction, CapEx reduction, risk reduction, and incremental top-line revenue.

Parasoft API Testing Solution Sheet - 1,029 KB PDF

Learn how Parasoft's API Testing solution simplifies the complex testing that’s vital for secure, reliable, and compliant composite applications.

Parasoft Service Virtualization Solution Sheet - 1,602 KB PDF

Learn how Parasoft Service Virtualization delivers a simulated test environment that allows your organization to test earlier, faster and more completely.

Parasoft TV: What's Needed for API Integrity

Learn about the top challenges to API integrity and the strategies and best practices for reducing the risks associated with each challenge.

Parasoft TV: Cloudy with a Chance of Cyber Attacks

Learn about 1) New cloud service technologies that have made software infrastructure more vulnerable. 2) The exorbitant costs of failing to meet security standards. 3) The most effective development testing solution for improving application security.

Service Virtualization for Mobile App Development & Testing   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer)

Why is service virtualization a "must have" for effective mobile app development & testing?

Cloud/ API Testing Business Drivers   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn about the business drivers behind API testing purchase decisions, as well as the opportunities for ROI in terms of reduced costs, reduced risks, and improved efficiency.

API Testing: Challenges and Best Practices   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn about 4 unique challenges associated with API testing and 5 strategies for ensuring API reliability, security, and performance vs. the extreme conditions that API exposure brings.

Parasoft TV - Testing REST, JSON, JMS, MQ, TIBCO & More- Oh My!

Learn how Parasoft SOAtest simplifies the management of multiple protocol & message types within a single test suite

Parasoft TV - Testing APIs for Mobile Applications

Learn how Parasoft SOAtest can help you deliver APIs that satisfy expectations for security, reliability, and performance.

Parasoft TV: Introducing Parasoft SOAtest

Learn how Parasoft SOAtest and Parasoft Load Test simplifies complex testing across the messaging layer, ESBs, databases, Web UIs, and mainframes.

SYS-CON.tv: Building Quality Applications in the Cloud

SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan interviews Parasoft's Wayne Ariola. "What comes first is the excitement around a new technology bursts, and what comes in next - the testing and the quality."

Parasoft TV - Load and Performance Testing Made Easy

Learn how to create realistic traffic distributions to simulate real-world load scenarios, virtualize missing components to test in incomplete environments, and leverage JUnit and "pluggable" code components to load test systems via custom APIs and check code for concurrency issues.

Test Environment Access Report   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

See the results from a recent survey about the test environment access constraints that developers, testers, and performance test engineers face—and how that impacts the risk of application failures.

The Inherent Complexities of Building Cloud Applications   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn how service virtualization addresses the inherent complexities of building cloud applications.

Testing EDI Messages   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer)

Learn how to take full advantage of a rich graphical interface when you're configuring, sending, and validating EDI-based industry-specific messages during functional and load testing.

On-Demand Test Environments   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn how service virtualization enables easy, rapid creation of the various test environments needed for QA and development—with dependencies eliminated.

Parasoft SOAtest & Load Test Data Sheet - 1,215 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces the industry's premier testing platform for service-oriented architectures and composite applications.

SYS-CON.tv: Managing Test Environments

SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan interviews Wayne Ariola, Parasoft VP of of Strategy and Corporate Development . "Today things are being distributed. They're getting parsed out everywhere on the cloud, everywhere in that virtual space. You still need to test them - that's where Parasoft comes in."

Eliminate Testing Roadblocks with Service Virtualization   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Testing SOA and composite applications? Learn how to exercise end-to-end transactions involving system components that are unavailable, evolving, or difficult-to-access.

Performance Test Environments On Demand   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn how to rapidly access a realistic performance testing environment that enables you to run the tests you need—on your own schedule

SYS-CON.tv: Application-Behavior Virtualization

SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan interviews Mark Lambert, Parasoft VP of Professional Services. "People who are moving to the cloud still have the challenge of quality. Any time you send a message to a system and need to get a response back - that's where Parasoft Virtualize comes in..."

Input Validation: Immunity Against Web Attacks   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains how to prevent injection attacks by using input validation and static analysis to build security into your application.

The Next Generation of Test Environment Management: Service Virtualization   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

This eBook introduces Service Virtualization, which gives teams the freedom to exercise their composite applications in incomplete, constantly evolving, and/or difficult-to-access environments.

Load Testing Web Services eBook   by Sergei Baranov (Software Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

This 15-page guide provides practical tips on how to automate web services load testing as part of the SOA testing process.

End to End Testing & Validation , Parasoft White Paper  by Rami Jaamour (Software Engineering Manager), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Demonstrates how to leverage automated end-to-end testing and application behavior virtualization to execute and validate all critical aspects of transactions directly from the test environment— even when some components are unavailable.

Parasoft SOAtest Starter Kit

This 9-page PDF guide explains how Parasoft SOAtest simplifies SOA, RIA, and cloud testing by integrating functional testing and load testing.

Oracle Fusion eKit

This 10-page eKit explains how to reduce the complexity of testing the complex transactions that pass through Oracle-driven enterprise environments.

Parasoft SOAtest: Oracle Fusion Edition

This data sheet describes Parasoft SOAtest: Oracle Fusion Edition, which provides enterprises working with Oracle applications and middleware an integrated solution for everything from end-to-end functional testing to load & performance testing.

Parasoft Functional and Load Testing Technical Sheet

This technical sheet details the solution's capabilities and support for environments/platforms (Oracle, Tibco, Progress, Software AG, HP, IBM, Microsoft, etc.), protocols, and technologies.

Siemens AG Case Study - 547 KB PDF

With the constant introduction of new APIs and services, Siemens must ensure their applications are smartly integrated with the back-end infrastructure and are diligently maintained to avoid errors or system shutdowns. Learn their strategy for rapidly implementing top-quality APIs.

Native Environments ESBs

This 10-minute video demonstrates how Parasoft automatically generates tests by monitoring transaction messages that touch JMS endpoints - and how we can visualize and trace the intra-process events that occur as part of tested transactions, as well as dissect them for validation.

End to End Testing

This 12-minute video demonstrates how Parasoft enables end-to-end business process testing, validation, and dissection of complex transactions that may extend beyond the message layer through a web interface, ESBs, databases, and everything in between.

Lufthansa Cargo AG Case Study - 551 KB PDF

Lufthansa Cargo needed to develop central, stable, and optimal-performance APIs without affecting the various front ends that were already in place or currently under construction. Discover how they achieved these goals while significantly increasing productivity.

Cisco DSSTG Case Study - 621 KB PDF

Cisco DSSTG wanted to automate its Test-Driven Development (TDD)-based testing infrastructure and further enhance testing collaboration between development and QA. Find out how they increased test coverage by 25%, testing productivity by 50%, and rapidly delivered quality software that is highly valued by their clients.

MedicAlert Case Study - 554 KB PDF

MedicAlert needed to accelerate its ability to roll out new services in a secure and effective fashion. Learn how they established a process for managing the functional, security, and performance testing challenges associated with their new capabilities and offerings.

Automate Performance Tests , Software Test & Performance - 3,899 KB PDF

Describes strategies for successful automation of performance testing and provides a methodology for creating test scenarios that reflect tendencies of the real-world environment.

Fundtech Case Study - 560 KB PDF

Fundtech, leading provider of financial software solutions and services, wanted to establish a process for ensuring quality as a continuous process. Learn how they established a process that not only ensures quality, but also makes their QA team more focused and productive.

MIMOS Case Study - 543 KB PDF

MIMOS, a strategic agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation of Malaysia, needed to ensure that their lab's search engine enhancements met strict quality and security standards despite having limited testing resources. Learn how automation helped them cut testing time in half, as well as cut costs.

SOA Adopters Retrospective Report: Quality Considerations in the Primary Phase , Parasoft White Paper

Survey findings: From a quality perspective, the failure to adequately plan for and invest in SOA quality impeded organizations' ability to fully realize the expected ROI of their initial SOA initiative.

Parasoft Secure Application Development Solution Sheet

This solution sheet introduces Parasoft's Secure Application Development solution, which establishes a continuous process that ensures security verification and remediation tasks are not only deployed across every stage of the SDLC, but also ingrained into the team's workflow.

Ensuring SOA ROI , Testing Experience - 531 KB PDF

Explores the testing challenges unique to heterogeneous distributed applications and introduces best practices for ensuring that they are secure, reliable, and compliant.

Tackling Quality Challenges in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems: A Technical Perspective , SearchSOA.com

Explores the technical challenges that arise in distributed systems (SOA, cloud, web), and what kinds of quality policies and testing practices need to be put in place to address these challenges.

Tackling Quality Challenges in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems: An Organizational Perspective , SearchSOA.com

Takes a high-level look at the quality challenges of distributed systems and proposes an approach to minimize the challenges in terms of how the teams are structured. It promotes a framework for collaboration and information sharing, as well as visibility from a quality perspective.

Jack Henry & Associates Case Study - 557 KB PDF

Jack Henry & Associates began building a new SOA and needed to ensure it met a strict yet evolving set of requirements. Learn how they satisfied expectations around functionality, interoperability, and performance.

Software AG-Parasoft Data Sheet

This data sheet describes how Software AG and Parasoft deliver design-time governance, helping teams develop SOA services to meet quality standards and deploy in confidence.

Emulating Systems , SearchSOA.com

Answers the questions "What are the best ways to go about emulating a system?" and "Are there specific products that are better at this than others?"

Building a Testing System for SOA , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Where is the best place to begin when building a testing system for SOA?"

Optimizing BPM and ROI with testing skills , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Can you suggest some testing skills and/or requirements for optimizing BPM and ROI?"

On the Road to Service Interoperability , SearchSOA.com

Explains the importance of service interoperability in terms of internal and external contexts, then discusses how governance and policy can be used to achieve interoperability.

QA Tests for BPM , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What are some new QA tests that our business should be aware of in creating an optimized BPM?"

Atex Case Study - 559 KB PDF

With Atex's online ad booking service growing in popularity, Atex needed to ensure the application would perform and function under increasing loads. Learn how they established a process for isolating the root cause of performance problems and ensuring that they do not recur.

BPM Testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What are some new QA tests that our business should be aware of in creating an optimized BPM?"

Business Process Testing and Simulation for Optimized BPM , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Can you suggest some testing skills and/or requirements for optimizing BPM?"

Changing Tires on a Moving Car

This recorded webinar features case studies and solutions for governing the continuous evolution of complex business systems.

Service Emulation Pitfalls , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What potential pitfalls are there in service emulation?"

Unit Testing for SOA Best Practices , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Can you provide me with some unit testing best practices for SOA?"

Aeroplan Case Study - 555 KB PDF

Aeroplan's Web service team was expected to write more than 50 outward facing Web services in seven different environments–under a strict deadline with limited QA resources. Discover how Aeroplan met all of their target dates and attained higher quality Web services.

Evolving Web 2.0 Apps , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Do you have any suggestions on how to make Web 2.0 apps more reliable?"

How Governance and Quality Define SOA Maturity , SearchSOA.com

Explores the quality challenges that emerge as SOA environments becoming more and more heterogeneous, with many different interfaces and protocols.

Performance capabilities in a WSDL , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What sort of performance information should I look to include in a WSDL?"

Functional Requirements for SOA Testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What are the newest in functional requirements for SOA testing?"

Whipping the QA Process Into SOA Shape , E-Commerce Times

Details strategies to improve the QA process for SOA by providing visibility and promoting bottom-up quality.

Validate Section 508 and WAI WCAG Web Accessibility Compliance , Parasoft White Paper - 477 KB PDF

Explains how Parasoft facilitates compliance with Section 508 and WAI WCAG web accessibility guidelines.

Who's Responsible for SOA Quality in a Service-Oriented Architecture? , SOA World Magazine

Discusses how the complexities of the SOA environment impact development and QA roles and responsibilities.

Tailored for SOA: Automated Regression Testing Process , SOA World

This video explains why an automated regression testing process that is tailored for SOA is critical for organizations applying SOA, and explores 10 activities that serve as the necessary pillars for a streamlined, efficient and predictable development and testing process for SOA services.

AOL Case Study - 544 KB PDF

As AOL was transforming their traditional subscription-based ISP to SOA, they were frustrated with the time and effort that their manual testing efforts were consuming. Learn how automation helped AOL improve productivity while ensuring the flexibility and reliability of their SOA initiative.

Parasoft SOA Solution Ranks Best in InfoWorld's SOA Testing Comparison Review , SOA World News Desk

An independent study found Parasoft SOAtest to be the best overall solutions after reviewing five different testing solutions used for SOA testing.

Clean Up Your SOAP-Based Web Services , InfoWorld

InfoWorld found Parasoft SOAtest to be the best overall solution for SOA testing. "SOAtest handles testing coming and going, and it has an overall feel of maturity missing from several of the other tools."

Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs Case Study - 559 KB PDF

The Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs was assigned to roll out the Netherlands' new personal ID system–a high profile initiative with little margin for error. Learn how they met ambitious objectives for this advanced system within a demanding timeframe.

SOA's Been a Matter of Trust , Software Test & Performance

Explains why a visible and measurable quality process is required to mitigate the inherent risk of reuse.

Corillian Online Case Study - 566 KB PDF

Corillian Online decided to transition one of its mainframe retail banking payment applications to APIs. Learn how they established a more automated and repeatable testing process that better verified functionality against requirements and increased the effectiveness of QA's testing efforts.

Sabre Holdings Case Study - 570 KB PDF

Parasoft SOAtest has enabled Sabre to effectively transition its software systems to a Service Oriented Architecture that now processes over 5 million transactions daily. Integrated into the Sabre development lifecycle, SOAtest allows Sabre to deliver a richer set of Web services...

Automate regression testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Given the amount of different technologies our company is trying to make work together is there any way to automate regression testing?"

SOA Best Practices - Four Steps to Securing Your Web Services , SOA World Magazine

Details practices for ensuring Web service security throughout the SDLC.

Quality Assurance for SOA Through Process Cadence , The SOA Magazine

Explores what's needed to bring an organization's quality process in alignment with the world of SOA.

Web testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What is fundamentally different about testing a Web service from testing a traditional Web application?"

SOA World Product Review — Testing...1...2...3...Testing , SOA World Magazine

"I found Parasoft's SOAtest to be a well-designed tool that took a lot of the pain and work out of testing and validating a SOA."

Integration Testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the questions "What constitutes integration and when should I look to do it?" and "Early or late in the development process?"

How to Build Secure, Reliable & Compliant Web 2.0 Applications

Learn pragmatic approaches for implementing effective testing and security strategies for Web 2.0 applications.

SOA versioning best practices , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Can you recommend any versioning best practices for SOA/Web services?"

Taming the SOA Beast , eCommerce Times

Explains how a visible and measurable quality process mitigates risk, increases trust and ultimately promotes reuse.

Making Sense of WS-Policy and SAML , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "If I want to learn about WS-Policy and SAML, where should I start looking?"

Understanding XPath Injection , SearchSoftwareQuality

Answers the question "Can you please explain what an XPath injection is?"

Prevent Application Logic Attacks with Sound App Security Practices , SearchAppSecurity.com

Discusses the rise in attacks on application logic and strategies for preventing them.

How Does WS-Security Relate to Other WS- Standards? , SearchSoftwareQuality

Answers the question "How can you relate WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy, WS-SecurePolicy and WS-Reliability to one another?"

SOAtest Bridges Web Services Gap , eWeek

"SOAtest helps developers close that gap between Web services and full SOA... That's what will make SOAtest a real working part of the SOA infrastructure, not just another dead chicken to wave over the system when management wants to see people doing something."

Distinguishing a Faked XMLHTTP Request from a Real One , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "How can one make sure an Ajax-enabled Web application is able to tell the difference between a real and a faked XMLHTTP request?"

Performance Testing , Wrox Press

Introduces performance testing: ensuring that an application will meet performance and scalability requirements when deployed .

What Issues to Look Out For as You Move from Java to Web Services , Java Developer's Journal

Discusses potential pitfalls teams may encounter when exposing legacy systems and middleware as Web Services.

Achieving Quality with SOA , ebizQ

Argues that to ensure secure, reliable, compliant SOAs, the SOA quality process must morph towards the quality process used for embedded systems.

How to Create Secure Web Applications with Struts , Java Developer's Journal

Focuses on developing secure Web applications with the popular Java framework Struts.

The Importance of WS-Security , SearchSoftwareQuality

Answers the question "What is WS-Security? Why can't I just use SSL?"

Trusting Reusable Business Components in SOA and Web Services , SOA World

Explains why the success of SOA depends upon an implementation plan for a robust and objective quality process.

Why are Web Services More Vulnerable than Web Apps? , SearchSoftwareQuality

Answers the question "Why are Web services potentially more vulnerable to security problems compared to traditional Web applications?"

XML Security: Preventing XML Bombs , SearchSoftwareQuality

Answers the question "What is an XML bomb and how do I protect my Web service against it?"

Evaluating Web Services Security Readiness through a POC

Learn how to set-up and run a Web Services security proof of concept to validate early the security readiness of your Web Services.

Choosing the Best Testing Tools to Increase Project Productivity , SOA World

Explains how to choose testing tools that increase productivity by helping the team prevent errors from the earliest phases of the software development lifecycle.

Comverse Case Study - 554 KB PDF

Comverse needed to deliver frequent updates to their billing platform, which manages millions of active customer accounts. Read how they established a process for ensuring system availability and reliability in the face of constant change–and at the same time reduced time to market.

Securing Web Services , Information Systems Security

Examines the threats to web applications and services, then outlines a strategy for preventing them.

Putting the SOA Infrastructure Together: Lessons from SOA Leaders , SOA Leaders Council Whitepaper - 117 KB PDF

SOA leaders lay out a practical approach to implementing an enterprise SOA.

Insurance Services Office: QA Experience with Security Solutions

ISO QA manager Maria Conway shares her views on new technology and demonstrates leading edge solutions for ensuring application security, reliability, and compliance.

Sabre: Web Service Enterprise Testing

Learn how Sabre Holdings, the leader in the travel service industry, has transitioned its core applications to web services and adopted SOA to create a more flexible, cost effective infrastructure that provides greater IT responsiveness to evolving business demands. Sabre explains how their use of Parasoft SOAtest has allowed them to accelerate this transition while ensuring their web services provide the high reliability and performance required to support the business.

Bulletproof Web Services: Follow Basic Principles , SOA World

Explores the nuts and bolts of implementing and deploying a bulletproof Web service.

Cleaning Up XML , XML Journal

Explains how to prevent poorly-written XML from slowing down an integration project–or causing it to collapse.

Minimizing Weaknesses in TLS , JavaPro

Explains how by recognizing TLS's weaknesses and considering alternatives such as message layer security, you can ensure that you are implementing the best possible security scheme for your specific needs.

Cutting the Crap: 7 Keys to Clean Up XML , Integration Developer News

Provides a checklist for cleaning up code that may have been auto-generated by a variety of tools.

Verifying Web Site Accessibility , WebSphere Developer's Journal

Explains how to comply with Section 508 and W3C WAI mandates for making Web sites accessible to people with disabilities.

Testing Web Services , WebSphere Developer's Journal

Solid testing techniques are essential for developing robust Web services because Web services' flexibility and connectivity provide an increased opportunity for errors. Problems can be introduced in any of a service's multiple layers, and even the slightest mistake can cause the entire service to fail.

Managing Web Service Security Risks , SD Times

Explains how web services' fundamental architecture opens the door for serious security breaches.

Security Issues with SOAP , Crosstalk Journal

Some of the very features that make SOAP attractive, such as its flexibility and its compatibility with HTTP, also provide opportunities for security breaches. This article discusses SOAP security issues and how they can be addressed.

Bulletproofing Web Applications

"Bulletproofing" is a road map for how to integrate error prevention and detection into the development process to ensure that Web applications are robust, scalable, efficient and reliable.

Establishing an Infrastructure for Immediate Servlet Testing , StickyMinds.com

If you establish an appropriate infrastructure, you can perform client-side testing on a servlet immediately after you compile it and perform unit testing.

Surviving the Web Shift , DevX.com

Five stumbling blocks that still trip up good developers.