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Security, SOA Are the Watchwords for 2007


Consolidation among QA vendors and Web services testing dominated the news in 2007

By David Worthington
December 26, 2007 —  The security segment of the test/QA market underwent a significant consolidation in 2007 with leading vendors being purchased by large software makers. Another trend was the increased emphasis by vendors on SOA quality testing tools.

When the year began, Mercury Interactive had vanished from the map; Hewlett-Packard had completed its acquisition of it in the closing months of 2006, erasing the Mercury brand altogether.

HP added Web application security to its portfolio by acquiring SPI Dynamics; the transaction was completed Aug 1. HP began offering SPI products including DevInspect, QAInspect and WebInspect under its own name shortly thereafter.

IBM was a step ahead with its June acquisition of Watchfire, announced two weeks before HP’s fanfare. The acquisition, which was completed on July 20, added Web application and compliance testing tools to Big Blue's Rational development portfolio, while Watchfire AppScan became IBM Rational AppScan.

Continuing the consolidation trend, Fortify Software gained the capacity to integrate its technologies with IBM's software development tools by buying Secure Software and its tools to secure software during the development life cycle.

Test Moves into the ‘SOA’ Era
The uptake in service-oriented architecture has driven demand for testing tools that provide comprehensive interoperability, functional, performance and vulnerability test functions. Testing a SOA application presents challenges that stem from the integration of services and the dynamic nature of SOA applications.

Companies including Compuware, iTKO, Mindreef, Parasoft and Solstice Software released new SOA testing tools in 2007. Testing tools from these vendors advanced in 2007, offering broader automation and integration capabilities.

Also of note, 2007 was the year that virtualization began to move into the application life-cycle management stack, starting the era that Voke analyst Theresa Lanowitz dubbed “ALM 2.0.” As an example, iTKO introduced LISA Virtual Service Environment in November.

VSE permits development teams to work in parallel by virtualizing the behavior of services and underlying systems, and simulating load testing. iTKO claims that virtualized services permit QA teams to lower the required number of test beds, while reducing licensing costs and contention for hardware.

Lanowitz believes that a virtualized services environment will be the next big wave to follow in the development life cycle— a wave that perhaps began as a ripple in 2007.



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