One of the great promises of the Web services architecture is how it enables companies to build their own standard application programming interfaces (APIs) for everyone (and everything) that must ...

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Thanks to the IT world’s ongoing love affair with Web services and the appearance of more and more Web-service construction tools, Web services are becoming easy to create — and oh so easy to botch. A ...

If you believe the documentation, the white papers, and the news releases, iTKO’s recently released LISA 4 is an SOA testing tool. That descriptor, however, is modesty riding on the back of the still ...

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Vendors including IBM and Oracle are launching an industry organization Monday for Web services interoperability, despite the existence of another Web services interoperability group with many of the ...

Test Web Applications Theoretically, you write all the tests for all of your services (with passing results) before you test the application proper. So, you might wonder: Why do you need to test that ...

Monrovia-based ParaSoft, a developer of software testing tools, said today that it has released an upgrade of its Web Services testing software. ParaSoft's upgraded SOAtest 4.5 software adds the ...

Web services provide organizations with flexible, standards-based mechanisms for deploying business logic and functionality to distributed consumers. When functionality is distributed, however, ...