Test Web Services

GH Tester has been helping customers to test SOA (service-oriented architectures) for five years. GH Tester provides the best SOA testing of any product on the market. Remarkably, GH Tester is transport agnostic, offering customers with more than one integration technology the ability to standardise on a single automated testing tool for their SOA or message-based integration.

Test your SOA with all these rich features:

  • Invoke web services using SOAP or XML over HTTP/S.
  • Invoke enterprise services using SOAP or XML over JMS.
  • Support for many other protocols.
  • Snoop web service calls made using JMS or HTTP.
  • Check back-end results using database interoperability or additional service calls.
  • Import BPEL projects for a flying start to your testing.
  • Use standalone tools (producers, consumers) for diagnostic work, or to capture messages for testing.
  • Use the Regression Test Wizard to automatically build 100s of tests from a working system in minutes.
  • Use stubs to simulate missing components such as services that are not yet available.
  • Link to schema files to build tests quickly.
  • Arbitrarily complex tests with support for synchronous and asynchronous portions.
  • Support for non-functional requirements as well as functional requirements.

Built-in editors help you create messages easily, including these popular choices:

  • XML document from XSD or DTD schemas, send using any protocol.
  • SOAP document from WSDLs, send using any protocol.
  • Field-value pairs such as JMS maps.

Supports all different kinds of testing and test automation, including unit testing, functional testing, integration testing and performance testing. All of these tests can be executed automatically, in a variety of places, including GH Tester itself, the command-line, ANT, Hudson, HP’s product suite and those from other vendors.

All GH Tester enterprise customers get access to every protocol, no complicated licensing model.

GH Tester has been designed for the demands of industrial strength testing, with these key features:

Stubs Simulate missing systems during testing to allow your project to flow around blockages.
Environments A powerful abstraction for sets of variables, such as port numbers, database connections and server names, so you can build one set of tests and use them in many places, in many different environments such as development, unit test, systems integration test and even production.
XML All GH Tester configuration and test results are stored as XML, offering infinite integration possibilities and opportunities for customisation.
Schemas GH Tester has been developed for the changing world. Schema changes are handled in a robust, helpful way. Many different types of schema are supported, not just XSD.
Configuration Management Out-of-the-box integration with common configuration management (version control/SCM) systems offers flexibility and multi-user capabilities.
No scripting GH Tester uses easily configurable test actions to provide the tester with a comfortable environment which is as technology free as possible, there is no scripting involved, GH Tester is a 4GL for test automation.
Batch Integration GH Tester can be invoked from the command-line to execute tests, or can integrate with Hudson, ANT or CruiseControl to provide an automated build and test capability.
Test Management Integration with popular test management tools from vendors such as HP, IBM and Micro Focus.
Test Data Create template tests and then re-use with test data sets from Excel, flat files and databases. Tools and wizards help with common data management and preparation problems such as generation and masking.
Methodology GH Tester is flexible enough to be used with any methodology of your choosing. Green Hat provides advice and documents on strategies to minimise quality problems during your integration project. GH Tester works particularly well with Agile and Test Driven Development Methodologies but also shows significant benefits with waterfall approaches.
Databases Check the database has the right information in it at each step of the test. Modify databases to simulate business events.
Reporting Get reports on the test results as HTML, PDF, XML and so on. Reports can be customised to suit your requirements.
Test plans Automatically generate documentation for your tests.
Coverage Provides coverage reports for major SOA platforms, providing the world's first and only insight into the effectiveness of your testing for SOA, helping you to target areas where more testing needs to be done.
Files Read and write data from and to files. Supports fixed and variable width, as well as custom formats.
Log Files Correlate transactions, find errors and warnings, even when they weren't expected in log files, include fragments in test data reports, create assertions against specific log file content.
Performance testing Integrates with GH Performance to measure the performance of your system, and provides key information on the performance of components in it.
Governance Integrate with industry leading governance solutions to enhance management of your SOA lifecycle through our Quality Policies.
GUI Automation GH Tester now has its own module for automation of UI tests. Using the same trademark codeless testing approach, you can now test a wide variety of UIs, including Web 2.0 solutions utilising AJAX, SAP ECC, Windows thick client applications (e.g. VB, .Net and C#) and more. If you already utilise QTP for UI automation, GH Tester can also integrate with that.

Transports, protocols and key systems supported:

  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix, BusinessWorks, BusinessEvents, iProcess, EMS, TIBCO Rendezvous (RV), TIBCO SmartSockets and Hawk
  • Software AG webMethods IB, IS, BPMS (versions 6, 7 and 8) and CentraSite (versions 7 and 8)
  • IBM WebSphere MQ (version 5 and onwards)
  • Oracle Fusion (WebLogic)
  • SAP XI/PI, BAPI, RFC and IDOCS
  • Sonic MQ and ESB
  • JMS (ActiveMQ, BEA WebLogic, Fiorano, Sun Java CAPS, WebMethods, Oracle and others)
  • HTTP/S (client, server and "snooping")
  • SOAP, XML and HTML, including certificates, encryption, signing and a whole raft of WS-* capabilities (e.g. WS-Security, WS-Addressing, and so on)
  • Databases via JDBC
  • IP (TCP and UDP)
  • HL7 and MLLP
  • SWIFT
  • Java Objects (POJOs and EJBs)
  • .NET Objects
  • COBOL Copybook
  • AMQP
  • IATA
  • BPM
  • GUI Test Automation
  • API allows custom development of any transport not supported

Coping with the unexpected

GH Tester is developed in Java and runs on Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, HPUX and other platforms for which JVMs are available. Java can be used to extend the tool at key points allowing you to develop custom transports, formatters and schemas.

Key business benefits:

  • No need to write or maintain your own testing tool. Many possible migration routes from current way of working.
  • Test more or test quicker. GH Tester’s easy-to-use automation allows developers and testers to perform testing quicker than ever before in a re-useable fashion.
  • Get changes into production quicker, make your business more agile.
  • Spend more time developing.
  • Eliminate delays during unit, integration and performance testing.
  • Ability to create intelligent stubs ("simulation" or "virtualization") helps to eliminate issues at integration time.
  • Use of independent tool avoids systematic errors.

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