Java developers and QA testers are challenged to develop automated tests in a time when Ajax, REST, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Web application development is expanding greatly. Open Source Test Automation has emerged as a more affordable and flexible option to the traditional vendors.

Open Source Test Automation vendors Eviware (maker of soapUI)  and PushToTest (maker of TestMaker) will have some exiciting news to announce at the JavaOne conference. The announcement will leverage our abilities to deliver SOA testing best practices using open source tools and methods.

I am finding that customers are increasingly turning to Open Source solutions for their testing needs. We recently wont such large customers as AMD, Amazon, Ford, The Jackson Laboratory and TVGuide. With 160,000 users, PushToTest delivers a single affordable platform to accomplish functional testing, load and performance testing, and business service monitoring. PushToTest integrates soapUI for fast and easy authoring of Web service test suites to run on a set of distributed PushToTest load test injector TestNodes.

PushToTest and Eviware will be exhibiting in the SOA Village in the JavaOne Exhibition Hall in booth 425.

I am available to meet you on Wed., May 7 or Thurs., May 8 at the show.  Please let me know.

-Frank