A LISA WS-Testing (Web Services) Testing Update

I got a notice in my Google News Scanner E-mail, that one of the so-called major testing vendors is in beta with an SOA testing product.

Well, good for them, we grabbed a beta copy and we did our own self-evaluation of this, and we think that by the time they get to Version 2 or 3, they might have what our free LISA WS-Testing release currently provides.

I thought that we’d do the market a favor by putting out a completely free -- as in free beer -- version of a web services testing product for a while, so that all of these guys don’t have to throw out yet another point solution and try to get their 5K of flesh per user.

Evidently, that’s not going to happen, these guys are going to peddle SOA testing as JBOWS testing (Just a Bunch of Web Services testing) only, and they are going to try to tighten around the point solution for WSDL/SOAP testing as SOA. Just take the “P” off SOAP tests, and you have SOA tests, right?

We know that this is just not the case. In fact, one of our favorite case studies is of a system integration firm. The lead developer of the test strategy said to us: “One in every 10 of their test cases was purely web services tests” -- and this was an SOA-based implementation. So it’s just irrational to think that an SOA testing product that is just Web Services is going to carry the load.

We’ve had thousands of down-loaders -- thank you guys! -- we have a fairly active Forums Area for community support, and of course we provide lots of answers ourselves there.

In the end, Web Services testing with LISA WS-Testing won’t be enough either, but it’s a start, and it’s going to be MORE than you’re going to buy from another vendor.