March 2007 Newsletter - SOA Governance Project Started
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March 8, 2007
The PushToTest Newsletter
- InfoQ's SOA Developer Conference, March 12-16, London
- TestMaker 4.4.1b Available For Download
- New SOA Governance Project Started
- SOA Event Calendar Now Available
- TestMaker 5 In Development for Spring 2007 Release
- Frank Cohen Speaking At JavaOne
- Software Performance Testing Conference
- FastSOA (the book) Now Available
- SOA Performance Kit Now Available
- PushToTest Partner's Page Update
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* QCon London, UK, March 12-16, 2007
PushToTest is a media sponsor for a new technology conference called QCon. The conference is in London next week: 13 March to 16 March. At this conference you will meet software architects and tools vendors. The experience may give you a better understanding of the state of the art for Web 2.0, AJAX, Ruby, SOA, and Java development. If you are interested in attending QCon we may be able to arrange for a free conference pass. If this interests you then please send email to info@pushtotest.com.
http://qcon.infoq.com/qcon/conference/
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* New TestMaker 4.4.1b Available For Download
TestMaker 4.4.1 is a minor bug fix release. From this release forward TestMaker requires Java 1.5 or greater. It provides a workaround for servers that do not correctly implement RFC 2116 for HTTP redirect commands. It solves a problem in the start-up script for Windows NT and 2000 users. It solves bugs in the agentbase.py support library for responses with no return parameters or invalid image tags, and now allows optional parameters to set the content-type of a POST. It also solves a problem where XSTest ran out of memory on long running load tests.
Additionally, TestMaker 4.4.1b is a minor bug-fixing maintenance release that fixes a bug where HTTPProtocol/HTTPBody would add duplicate parameter values when issuing a GET or POST command to a target host. This is fixed. Thanks to Aaron Romeo for finding this problem.
TestMaker version 4.4.1b is available for free download at:
http://downloads.pushtotest.com/TestMaker.zip
Release notes available at:
http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/vreleasenotes
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- New SOA Governance Project Started
PushToTest started a new project named GovFeed to build interoperability between test automation tools and SOA registry/repository governance tools. The project will define message schemas to enable TestMaker tests to provide knowledge feeds into an SOA governance tool, for instance, BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository (BEA ALER,) HP Quality Center, and WebMethods Fabric/X-Registry. The knowledge feeds will provide up-time feeds to determine Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance, functioning feeds to discover service regression bugs, and reliability feeds to quantify service reliability over time.
http://www.pushtotest.com/thecohenblog/knowledgefeedds.html
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- SOA Event Calendar Now Available
A calendar of events that software developers, QA analysts, and IT managers use to learn the latest about SOA, Web Services, ESB and orchestration, and BPM and MDM technology and practices is now available at:
http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/eventcalendar.html
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* TestMaker 5 In Development for Spring 2007 Release
PushToTest is funding professional development of TestMaker 5. We expect the new software to be available in Spring 2007, with early release versions available in late March. The new product has several major new features that are explained in a specification document that you may download and view at:
http://downloads.pushtotest.com/tm5/TM5_Specification.pdf
The document is 444K in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. It is not too late for you to comment on the plan at dev@lists.pushtotest.com.
Additionally, download the user interaction specification document at:
http://downloads.pushtotest.com/tm5/TM5_UI_Design.pdf
We look forward to your comments and feedback.
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- Frank Cohen Speaking At JavaOne
PushToTest's TestMaker embeds the Jython dynamic scripting language to build test automation. PushToTest's founder Frank Cohen will lead the Dynamic Scripting Birds Of A Feather (BOF) session at JavaOne, May 8 to 11, 2007.
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/index.jsp
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* Frank Cohen Speaking At Performance Testing Conference
PushToTest's founder Frank Cohen will lead a session at the Software Test and Performance Conference (STPCON.)
"Solving XML Performance Problems in SOA Environments"
Abstract of the session: Software developers, QA technicians and IT managers are confronted with a challenge: Service Oriented Architecture that relies on XML for message-driven interoperability frequently delivers awful performance and scalability. Yet the benefits of rapid application development, reduced system integration costs, and better governance are enticing. In this presentation, Frank Cohen shows software quality and development professionals the major trends in play that impact the use of XML in an enterprise IT system and how a new base of computing technology using Repository, ESB, Master Data Management (MDM), and SOA practices deliver a solution. Frank will show specific examples of tests and use cases to determine scalability and performance profiles of these SOA systems.
Software Test & Performance Conference
April 17-19 in San Mateo, California, USA
http://www.stpcon.com
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* FastSOA, Solve SOA Performance Problems
The seminal book by PushToTest's Frank Cohen on why software developers run into scalability and performance problems when using SOA, Web Services, and XML is now available. FastSOA explains the problem and presents new architecture that uses native XML technology to solve the problems.
Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1.5 transactions per second (TPS) on expensive modern servers. This is a disaster enterprises, organizations, or institutions avoid by using Frank Cohen's FastSOA patterns, test methodology, and architecture.
http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/fastsoabook.html
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* SOA Performance Kit Now Available
A free open-source comprehensive tool kit showing the performance and developer productivity implications of implementing Web Service and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on commercial and open-source application servers, including BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle Application Server, and JBoss.
Software architects and developers make choices of XML parsing techniques, service libraries, encoding techniques, and protocols when building Service Oriented Architecture (SOA.) Each choice has an impact on scalability and performance of the finished service.
Learn about and download the SOA Scalability and Developer Productivity Knowledge Kit and read the performance test results at:
http://www.pushtotest.com/Downloads/kits/soakit.html
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PushToTest Partner's Page Update
PushToTest is pleased to promote businesses and individuals that add value to our SOA test automation tools. We will be renovating the PushToTest Web site in the next few weeks. If you would like to see yourself or your business listed on the Partners page then please send an email message to info@pushtotest.com.
http://www.pushtotest.com/Partners/partners.html
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