Parasoft

Parasoft

Parasoft is an independent software vendor with headquarters in Monrovia, California. It was founded in 1987 by five graduates of the California Institute of Technology who had been working on Caltech Cosmic Cube....

 SOAtest is "a comprehensive testing and analysis tool suite for tailored to the unique testing and validation needs of Service Oriented Architectures." It helps testers test the message layer functionality of their services by automating their testing and supports numerous transport protocols including: HTTP 1.0, HTTP/1.1, JMS

JMS

- Buildings :*EverBank Field, a sports stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Formerly known as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium...

, MQ

MQ

MQ may refer to:* Macquarie University, Australia* Macquarie Bank, Australia* Magic Quadrant, a market analysis visualization method proprietary to Gartner* Martinique: country code within ISO 3166-1 alpha-2* Merseburg-Querfurt, a district of Germany...

, RMI

RMI

RMI can refer to:In computing:* RMI Corporation, a semiconductor company manufacturing CPUs* Remote Method Invocation, a Java application programming interface* Rights Management Information, under WIPO Internet Treaties...

, SMTP, TIBCO, .NET WCF HTTP, .NET WCF TCP. Basic testing functionality include static analysis

Static code analysis

Static program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that software In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code and in the other cases some form of the object code...

 through WSDL

Web Services Description Language

The Web Services Description Language is an XML-based language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a Web service. A WSDL description of a web service provides a machine-readable description of how the service can be called, what parameters it expects and what data structures...

 testing, functional unit testing, regression testing

Regression testing

Regression testing is any type of software testing that seeks to uncover new errors, or regressions, in existing functionality after changes have been made to a system, such as functional enhancements, patches or configuration changes....

, security testing

Security Testing

Security testing is a process to determine that an information system protects data and maintains functionality as intended.The six basic security concepts that need to be covered by security testing are: confidentiality, integrity, authentication, availability, authorization and non-repudiation...

, and load testing

Load testing

Load testing is the process of putting demand on a system or device and measuring its response. Load testing is performed to determine a system’s behavior under both normal and anticipated peak load conditions. It helps to identify the maximum operating capacity of an application as well as any...

. Parasoft SOAtest introduced application behavior virtualization, which creates copies of applications or back-end systems that are otherwise difficult to access or exercise during development and testing. Application behavior virtualization was extended and is now available in Parasoft Virtualize. SOAtest is used by companies such as Sabre, Lufthansa Cargo AG, Siemens AG, MedicAlert, and AOL

Industry Recognition

SOAtest won the SOA World 2007 Reader's Choice Award for Best Web Services Testing Tool.

InfoWorld recognized SOAtest as 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."

See also

• Automated testing
• List of unit testing frameworks
• Apache JMeter
• soapUI
  Soapui
  SoapUI is an open source web service testing tool for service-oriented architectures . Its functionality covers web service inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking, functional testing, load and compliance testing. Eviware also released a Pro version as a commercial product which...
  
  
• Software testing
  Software testing
  Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software...
  
  
• System testing
  System testing
  System testing of software or hardware is testing conducted on a complete, integrated system to evaluate the system's compliance with its specified requirements. System testing falls within the scope of black box testing, and as such, should require no knowledge of the inner design of the code or...
  
  
• Test case
  Test case
  A test case in software engineering is a set of conditions or variables under which a tester will determine whether an application or software system is working correctly or not. The mechanism for determining whether a software program or system has passed or failed such a test is known as a test...
  
  
• Test-driven development
  Test-driven development
  Test-driven development is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces code to pass that test and finally refactors the new...
  
  
• xUnit
  XUnit
  Various code-driven testing frameworks have come to be known collectively as xUnit. These frameworks allow testing of different elements of software, such as functions and classes...
  
  - a family of unit testing frameworks.

External links

• Parasoft Software.
• Parasoft SOA Quality Solution (about SOAtest).