Parasoft Resources Center: Cloud, API, SOA, Article

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.

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.

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?"

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?"

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?"

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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?"

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?"

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?"

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.

Securing Web Services , Information Systems Security

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

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.

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.