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SOA and Middleware Testing and Validation Services

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables increased business agility, improved business workflows, extensible architecture, enhanced reuse, and a longer life span of applications. However, companies cannot realize the benefits of SOA due to several challenges -

Multiple interaction points and system vulnerabilities in widely exposed services, and sub-standard performance of applications using shared services
High cost due to frequent changes in services leading to repetitive and often redundant validation efforts
Diverse expectations of stakeholders
Difficulty in isolating defects across architecture layers

Traditional test validation approaches and tools are often incapable of providing high test coverage, consistency, repeatability, and time-to-market.

Infosys' SOA and Middleware Testing and Validation services help companies minimize risks, optimize costs and increase agility of their SOA implementations. We combine an early lifecycle approach to functional validation across multiple layers of the systems architecture with a comprehensive non-functional testing approach. The service is backed by Infosys' proprietary tools and accelerators such as Infosys ACCORD for component and integration testing, and Infosys Test Automation Accelerator (ITAA) for automated end-to-end testing. These tools along with established processes enable companies to successfully validate their SOA transformation programs, enterprise messaging middleware implementations, legacy modernization initiatives and other technology and business initiatives. Significantly, our approach allows companies to achieve business agility and acquire the ability to deploy products rapidly.

SOA-related Challenges	Infosys' Approach	Benefits
High risk of failure	Modular gray box testing approach combines the best of component level, system integration and end-to-end testing techniques and tools Focused on security testing, performance testing and interoperability testing Business participation, continuous validation and milestones of success	Identifies and resolves functional defects, performance bottlenecks and vulnerabilities early in the test lifecycle Identifies and rectifies almost 50% of defects before the integration phase Increases confidence in SOA-enabled business transformation
High Total Cost of Ownership	Test automation at all layers of SOA using specialized tools for Web services and middleware Infosys ACCORD, Infosys' SOA testing tool, helps in automating regression and performance testing of services and middleware components Robust testing strategies and framework enable reuse of test components across the testing lifecycle	Reduces test effort by up to 66% Reduces the cost of quality significantly
Complex interdependencies between functional groups	Comprehensive risk-based test strategy addresses potential conflict scenarios Robust test data management practices Comprehensive management plan and governance function manage the expectations of participating teams	Minimizes dependencies between teams Ensures prompt rectification of defects Reduces effort Accelerates time-to-market