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Volume 6, Number 28 -- July 18, 2006

SOA Link Adds Four Testing Specialists to List of Members

Published: July 18, 2006

by Alex Woodie

Four more software vendors--all developers of testing tools--last week joined the SOA Link, a group of integration specialists that share the common goal of encouraging the adoption of service oriented architecture (SOA). With the recent arrival of Hewlett-Packard, the group has close to 20 members.

SOA Link was formed in May when a group of vendors led by Infravio joined a "governance interoperability" organization to assist vendors in making products that work together, and to help decision makers sort out the different options they have when it comes to putting SOA concepts into action (see "Vendors Launch 'SOA Link' to Increase Interoperability, Adoption").

Last week, the SOA Link's ranks grew by four members, including iTKO, a Texas developer of tools for testing SOA applications; Mindreef, a New Hampshire provider of tools for defining, implementing, integrating, testing, and deploying SOA applications; Parasoft, a California developer of test automation tools; and Solstice Software, a Delaware provider of middleware and SOA testing tools.

The addition of four testing tools providers was good news to Miko Matsumura, vice president of technology standards at Infravio, creator of a next-generation Web services catalog called the X-Registry. "Enterprise SOA makes organizations increasingly interdependent with service providers outside and across lines of business," Matsumura, says. "To support these relationships, testing frameworks will both feed information to and enforce assertions about quality made in the registry repository."

The new members also sounded happy to have arrived at SOA Link. "SOA Link gets to the heart of what we have been trying to accomplish," says iTKO chief marketing officer Jim Mackay. Frank Grossman, founder and president of Mindreef, said the move will benefit his company and his customers. "Mindreef is firmly committed to promoting quality-driven SOA, so we consider joining SOA Link a positive step for us and our customers," he said.

Wayne Ariola, vice president of corporate development for Parasoft, says the move will help to deliver consistency across SOA. "The key to SOA is consistency," Ariola says. "In order to achieve consistency, organizations must have a method to clearly delineate their expectations as they provision and version services. SOA Link is the right step in the right direction to achieve consistency."



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