AmberPoint, Parasoft integrate SOA products
September 22, 2008 —
Since SOA applications are by their nature distributed, it’s inherently tough for development and QA teams to reproduce the actual environments in which services run. A quality management tool developer has teamed with a SOA runtime governance software maker to create an integrated solution that promises to ease the process.
Today, Parasoft released an update to SOAtest that integrates its test artifacts with AmberPoint’s SOA Management System. AmberPoint’s governance runtime feeds resident information about individual services and transactions back into the quality process, said Wayne Ariola, vice president of business development at Parasoft.
Parasoft also imports information about usage, infrastructure and policy, according to the company.
“Pulling information from production and making it available in development is a luxury,” Ariola said. “When this connection does not exist, what happens is that development and QA [teams] fail to build out a robust environment, and the quality initiative is less than it should be.”
He said Parasoft can now more accurately and more broadly emulate the interactions of a service by leveraging data cataloged by AmberPoint’s runtime. “Importing baseline information gives more critical data [for generating test suites],” he said.
“In the SOA context,” said ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg, “quality becomes more than a design-time set of activities, but actively includes runtime management. By establishing feedback loops that integrate runtime governance data into design-time test artifacts, organizations will be better able to build high-quality services in an iterative manner.”
Sensitive data that might not be able to move off production servers for compliance reasons can be censored, noted Ed Horst, vice president of marketing at AmberPoint.
The integration also means that runtime governance policy can now be understood—and service expectations endorsed—in design and development, said Horst. Service-level agreements and security requirements thus can be worked on from the outset.
AmberPoint and Parasoft will jointly sell the solution, the companies said.
“Parasoft has limited partnership options, AmberPoint is particularly interested in forging partnerships, and AmberPoint and Parasoft have worked effectively in partnership in the past,” said Anne Thomas Manes, a Burton Group analyst.
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