Web Services Solutions Overview
Effectively combines tools, services, and expertise
into a practical solution for implementing Automated
Error Prevention throughout the full lifecycle of
N-tier Web Services systems, including development,
maintenance, and operation of both client-side and
server-side applications.
Make Your Web Services Work
Web services are complex systems that attempt to
marry software, hardware, new code, legacy code,
existing systems, systems in development, and who-knows-what
on the client side. Your connection to your partners
and customers depends on Web services' complete
reliability, but there are countless opportunities
for things to go wrong梐 slight mistake in any component
or interface will cause problems that ripple throughout
the system. If you want peace of mind, you need
to ensure that each part of the system is reliable,
that all of these parts interact flawlessly, and
that each modification produces the desired effect
without introducing new problems. The best way to
achieve these goals is to ensure that the entire
Web service development team is working together
to perform error prevention practices梥uch as load
testing, functional testing, and security testing梩hroughout
the full system lifecycle.
Parasoft抯 Web Services Solution gives you a proven,
cost-effective way to identify and prevent Web service
errors to reduce the risk of system failures. It
seamlessly incorporates error prevention tools,
methodologies, and services into the full lifecycle
of enterprise Web service development, maintenance,
and operation. Parasoft抯 Web Services Solution can
be used to:
- Prevent development, deployment, and operational
errors from affecting Web service servers and
clients.
- Verify the quality of Web services through functional
testing and load testing.
- Verify Web Service security by confirming that
unexpected inputs do not violate security safeguards.
- Leverage work between development stages and
development team members to reduce the overall
amount of time and effort spent in production.
- Provide fully automated reports that allow Project
Management to intelligently and consistently oversee
the production, deployment, and operational phases
of Web service development.
Parasoft抯 Web Services Solution fits into any project
or development process with minimal disruption.
It improves how organizations build and maintain
Web services by implementing Parasoft抯 Automated
Error Prevention (AEP) methodology throughout the
organization and its full production lifecycle.
The AEP methodology is a logical and practical application
of W. Edwards Deming's Principles of Total Quality
Management (TQM). After adopting this methodology,
your organization will be fully equipped to expose
errors as quickly and easily as possible, correlate
each error to the production process that is responsible
for introducing the error, implement practices to
prevent the error from reoccurring, introduce practices
and metrics for measuring error rates during all
stages of development, and monitor all quality improvements.
Parasoft's Web Services Solution
In the Parasoft Web Services Solution, every role
and task in Web service development is identified
and brought under an automated error prevention
process that uses source control and nightly build
systems in conjunction with proven error prevention
techniques梖unctional testing, regression testing,
load testing, security testing, and monitoring梩o
prevent development, deployment, and operational
errors.
Parasoft enhances these proven techniques by implementing
a fully automated solution organized around the
main roles in the Web service process. Each of these
roles桪evelopers, Architects, Quality Assurance (QA)
Personnel, Operations and Security Personnel, and
Project Managers梚s equipped with the tools and training
that help them actively prevent errors throughout
the entire Web service development lifecycle.
Web Services Developers ?Each Developer
is equipped with tools that automate error prevention
when creating, verifying, and prototyping Web service
servers and clients. Using error prevention tools
in interactive mode, Developers verify whether their
servers or clients are robust, correct, and reliable.
To verify whether Web service servers will operate
correctly with the wide range of potential clients,
they perform functional testing, regression testing,
and security/robustness testing. To verify whether
Web service clients will correctly invoke the service
and receive the response, they perform functional
testing and regression testing. Parasoft tools work
as filters to your source control system so that
code that was not thoroughly tested or that contains
errors cannot be added to the source code repository.
Web Services Architects ?Each Architect
is responsible for determining what error prevention
practices should be performed at different phases
of the development process, as well as designing
ways to verify whether those practices are being
performed thoroughly. In addition, each Architect
standardizes test settings across the team's tools
to ensure that all tests are performed with the
required settings. Reports from automated tests
help Architects continually monitor all phases of
the development process. The Architects use these
results to verify if required practices were completed
correctly and to determine what梚f any梡rocess modifications
are needed to ensure that the team prevents the
maximum amount of errors. If an error is found,
the Architect works with QA to determine its root
cause and to modify the process so that similar
errors are prevented.
Web Services QA Personnel ?Each QA team
member is equipped with tools that automate integration-level
testing. On the test deployment area constructed
by nightly builds, QA extends the Developers' test
suite. Functional tests that test system-wide interactions
are built by extending the Developers' functional
tests, and load tests are built by leveraging the
existing functional tests. In addition, all existing
test cases are used for regression testing, which
ensures that application changes do not produce
unintended side effects.
Web Services Product Managers ?Each Project
Manager receives nightly reports detailing how well
the process is working, verifying that each Developer
and Architect is adhering to the process and that
nightly builds are using only valid, checked-in
code. At a single glance the Project Manager has
all information needed to make important decisions
concerning application deliverables and deployment,
key production dates, and development milestones.
Web Services Operations and Security ? Each
Operations Team member is equipped with the tools
needed to monitor the Web service server's performance
and functionality, as well as monitor all service
links to ensure that unexpected messages and inputs
are not violating system security. The monitoring
test suite is built by extending test suites created
by Development and QA.
Parasoft Web Services Solution is implemented
in five easy steps:
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Evaluation ?Parasoft's Professional
Services team evaluates your development procedures
and processes, gaining an intimate understanding
of your overall manufacturing methods and identifying
their weaknesses.
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Customization ?Parasoft customizes the
solution to fit your development process. The
goal is to improve your existing development
process桺arasoft solutions do not revolutionize
your processes but rather help your current
software development cycle evolve. Put simply桺arasoft
improves the way you make software.
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Automation ?Parasoft automates critical
error prevention procedures and builds them
into your development process, source control
systems, and nightly build processes. For companies
without established source control systems or
nightly build processes, such systems and processes
can be built and implemented梪sing open source
applications 梐s part of the complete automation
process.
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Training ?Parasoft trains and mentors
all members of your organization to ensure that
they understand the value of the automated error
prevention process so that they can use the
tools and techniques effectively and independently.
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Reports ?Parasoft creates the reports
you need to use and maintain your solution by
customizing standard report templates to your
specifications. These custom reports are delivered
during the final implementation phase.
The Time Has Come for Error Prevention
Parasoft抯 Web Services Solution automates error
prevention practices for organizations looking to
improve development processes and application quality
while simultaneously preventing business failures
and customer dissatisfaction. Functional application
areas for the Parasoft Web Services Solution include:
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Commercial software development ? Improve
the quality of applications you produce for
end users outside of your organization.
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Creation or enhancement of internal business
systems ?Provide a comprehensive tool set
your IT organization can use to create robust,
reliable information systems for accounting,
sales, human resources, and other vital departments.
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Systems Integration ?Incorporate tested
technologies into systems integration processes,
whether merging existing business systems or
third-party applications.
Whether your software system is a customer interface
or will serve as the backbone for your business
operations, choose Parasoft抯 Web Services Solution
for Automated Error Prevention ? We make software
work.
Features
- Automated project management.
- Automated test design and execution.
- Automated load testing for Web service servers.
- Automated functional testing for Web service
clients and servers, including automatic creation
of test cases from WSDL.
- Automated regression testing for Web service
servers and clients.
- Automated XML and XSLT structure verification.
- Automated detection of security breaches in
SOAP messages, as well as error prevention in
the multi-layer message stack.
- Automated monitoring of functionality, performance,
and security.
- Automated unit testing and coding standard enforcement
for methods exposed through the WSDL.
- Automated deployment of Web service servers.
- Automated generation of Web service clients.
- Complete support for Web service development
in C++, Java, Perl, and .NET.
- Complete support for the W3C WSDL standard.
- Tools to support Developers, Architects, QA
Personnel, Project Managers, and Web service Operations
and Security Personnel.
Benefits
- Produces Web service systems that work, preventing
failures and customer dissatisfaction.
- Reduces development costs by making software
development teams 100% more productive. As errors
decrease, productivity increases.
- Prevents delays. Eliminates the costly process
of rewriting and restructuring applications.
- Prevents budget overruns. Removes the uncertainty
caused by errors and the necessity of finding
and correcting them.
- Reduces support calls and issues.
- Supports practices required to achieve and maintain
ISO and CMM certificates.
- Helps your software development process evolve
and thrive.
- Integrates seamlessly into any development process
or project.
- Can be implemented piece-by-piece or as a complete
solution.
Parasoft Web Service Solution Package
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| Parasoft Web Services Solution provides businesses
with the capability to seamlessly incorporate
automated error prevention strategies into existing
Web Services cycles. Our solution offers a combination
of intelligence, tools, techniques and services
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| Tools included in the Parasoft WebServices
Solution package are:
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