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As organizations extend their development and deployment of web services it becomescritical to the interoperability, extensibility and future reusability of thoseservices that they are developed on a common set of standards and shared guidelines.Parasoft SOAtest 4.5 allows organizations to establish, enforce and practice SOAdevelopment governance during the development and QA processes
 Establishing a reliable, repeatable test infrastructure and a developmentgovernance process across the enterprise is paramount to ensuring that uncontrolledand inconsistent Web services development do not compromise the planned benefits ofSOA. said Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development at Parasoft.  Wecontinue to extend the capabilities of SOAtest to provide organizations with thesupport and automation they need to validate their web services for the security,reliability and performance.Â
Parasoft SOAtest provides  out-of-the-box validation of compliance with WS-I, W3C,OASIS and a wide range of WS-* standards along with best practices for security,maintainability, and reusability. Rules to enforce custom corporate policies andstandards can be developed with Parasoft SOAtests RuleWizard providing the means toenforce all web services development policies and practices.
In addition to development governance the new Parasoft SOAtest 4.5 delivers extendedtest management capabilities to allow groups of test assets to be managed andscheduled for automated execution to support regression testing and general reuseand retesting of services over the lifecycle of their use. In addition to its owntest management capabilities Parasoft SOAtest 4.5 provides direct integrations withMercury Test Director and IBM Rational TestManager. Now users of those testmanagement platforms can easily integrate, manage, and orchestrate execution ofParasoft SOAtest generated test assets within the quality lifecycles supported bythose platforms. An enhanced command line interface allows Parasoft SOAtest to beeasily integrated with and invoked by automated build managers, such as Ant orCruise Control, or from within in-house developed test frameworks.
Parasoft SOAtest 4.5 also provides the ability to test BPEL implementations,automatically creating test cases from vendor-specific BPEL deployment artifacts andallowing users to arrange these test cases into suites that reflect differentaspects of testing a BPEL process. Tests generated fall into four categories: BPELsemantic tests, WSDL tests, BPEL process tests and BPEL Partner tests. Organizationsusing BPEL to optimize and emulate complex business processes can now more reliablyand consistently ensure the quality and completeness of these processes.
Parasoft SOAtest is a comprehensive, collaborative test and analysis tool suitedesigned specifically for test and validation of Web services. Parasoft SOAtestautomates all the necessary practices that allow verification of all aspects of aWeb service, including four-tier WSDL validation, unit and functional testing of theclient, unit and functional testing of the server, performance testing, as well asthe ability to graphically model and test complex, multi-layered transactionscenarios and use cases.
SOAtest addresses key SOA issues such as governance, interoperability, security,change management, and scalability.
AvailabilityParasoft SOAest 4.5 is available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux and Solaris.Pricing starts at $3,995.
About ParasoftParasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions for automated software testand analysis and the establishment of software error prevention practices as anintegrated part of the software development lifecycle. ParasoftÂ's products andservices enable software development and IT organizations to significantly improvevisibility and control over the quality, costs and schedules of their softwareprojects through the practice of Automated Error Prevention (AEP). Parasoft hasmore than 10,000 clients worldwide including: Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco,Disney, Ericsson, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Lockheed, Lexis-Nexis, Sabre Holdings, SBCand Yahoo. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is a privately held company headquartered inMonrovia, CA. For more information visit: www.parasoft.com.
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