Parasoft Resources Center: SOAtest

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Agile Development Starter Kit

This 12 page eKit introduces proven strategies for optimizing Agile development through integrated project management + Agile quality practices.

SOAtest User Testimonials

Read what customers had to say about SOAtest's functional testing and load testing capabilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Changing Tires on a Moving Car

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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."

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.