A Web service is, after all, a collection of procedures exposed to the unforgiving thoroughfare of the Net (be it inter- or intra-). And a failed Web service invites wrath not only from the managers ...

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Web services provide organizations with flexible, standards-based mechanisms for deploying business logic and functionality to distributed consumers. When functionality is distributed, however, ...

SOAP-based Web services implementations were on the absolute bleeding edge just a year or two ago. Now organizations are asking Web services to do more, while simultaneously wrestling with the testing ...

Technology may continue to advance, but human beings are still human beings. As such, the human factor must still be considered when choosing test tools for Web services, according to Laura Naylor, ...

Testing in Web-based applications is complicated by several factors, such as a lack of cost-effective tools for both Web and Web-service testing, lack of flexibility in these tools, and the fact that ...

One of the great promises of the Web services architecture is how it enables companies to build their own standard application programming interfaces (APIs) for everyone (and everything) that must ...

Customers report that Empirix e-TEST suite and OneSight help speed Web Services testing cycles, improve overall application quality and enable service-level management Empirix Inc., the leading ...

iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete automated testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced it has passed the 2,500 th free download mark of its LISA WS-Testing, a ...

SOAP is the currency of the SOA marketplace – for now, anyway. Though SOAP’s significance may diminish as Web services evolve, its importance for the time being is unquestionable. Therefore, a ...