A question that comes up around the Service Virtualization concept is whether or not one of the components in a complex architecture can be virtualized and have that virtual service communicate with the live systems downstream.

Perhaps an answer to this question will be clearer through an illustration:…

Test automation is key to achieving increased productivity, ensure good consistent coverage and deliver higher quality code by avoiding manual effort and errors in test cycles. Everyone gets that.

Most tech organizations are on a path to test automation or have already created a test automation framework ……or so they think. In most cases (those who haven’t seen the light) are not seeing a missing link.

Test automation involves invoking a component in the application and making…

What is component level performance testing?

Component level performance testing involves performance testing each component in a multi-component architecture (SOA), independent of the performance characteristic of it's dependencies.

Why does it matter?

It is critically…

In the componentized world of SOA, the only thing that can keep the components from going haywire are contracts between various components. Any lack of these contracts in place and/or the lack of enforcement of these contracts lead to chaos, which leads to a cascade of inefficiencies, delivery delays and poor application quality.

A lot of organizations seem to have done a decent job of putting the contracts in place. Mostly these contracts are in static form in Word documents, text…