What is the biggest change that SOA brings to testing?
RR: Randy states that “accessibility to services” or the “headless nature of services” creates new challenges for testers. Testers will have to test many services without the aid of user interfaces and must perform rigorous testing to validate these services. Randy says that testing services reminds him of the challenges of testing drivers which require test harnesses and testing frameworks. FC: Frank talks about how services are “always available” which is different from n-tier architectures where “you are in control”. With SOA you have services calling other services and in the world of mashups, testers do not always have knowledge of how these services will be used before deployment. Scale and performance are also high on Frank’s list of challenges. JG: Jim says you should expect frequent testing cycles much like agile projects and a test driven development methodology should be employed. Jim states that testing governance becomes critical in an SOA. Like his peers, Jim discusses th
