Why the traditional approach no longer applies
For many years, test automation has focused on the graphical user interface (GUI) used to interface between a human being and the computer. In integration and SOA projects, there is rarely a GUI interface, negating the use of a traditional GUI test automation tool.
Instead, the system is expecting a request from another computer system. To automate the testing, you need to simulate this other computer system quickly, easily and without coding. Similarly, there is also a lot going on behind the scenes to implement successful processing of the request. GUI test automation can miss these vital clues. Finally, the quantity of dependencies in these new SOA and integration projects can be staggering, rendering traditional testing techniques useless. Users need a way to simulate the other systems that this system depends upon.
Green Hat's range of software testing solutions for SOA and integration projects address all of these needs, as well as offering new ways of organising your development processes to reduce the risk of problems occurring in the first place.
GH Tester offers a friendly user interface for the code-free definition and execution of automated functional tests for integration, SOA and BPM projects utilising a variety of web services and messaging technologies. Rich support is offered for many of the SOA platform solutions adopted by larger organisations. GH Tester includes the functional aspects of GH Simulation to allow users to stub out systems during testing.
GH Performance fits seamlessly into GH Tester to meet every performance testing need for integration projects. Functional tests can be re-used as part of a performance test. They can be data driven. They can also be used in any combination to simulate realistic production transaction mixes. GH VIE (Virtual Integration Environment) can be used to stub out any systems unsuitable or unavailable for performance testing.
GH VIE can be used separately to provide production volume simulations of systems for you or your clients and partners. Intelligent stubs can be built quickly from the interface definition of the system for a wide variety of protocols, including HTTP, web services, SOA, JMS, TIBCO, IBM® WebSphere® MQ, Oracle and many more.
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