The iTKO SOA Testing & Validation Soapbox

WS-FalseSecurity: Are you at risk?

In our previous post, we mentioned how the notion of standards in SOA can be just the opposite. This is largely because the standards are generally generated by whatever tool you are using to create services its not something you construct by hand

Posted: Mar. 24, 2008 10:07 AM

Wring ROI out of your UDDI Registry/Repository by plugging in SOA Validation

Weve been talking about validating SOA Governance approaches for three years now, but surprisingly, we have found that very few enterprise IT shops of any serious scale are actually using them to their potential at this point. I had lunch yesterday

Posted: Mar. 20, 2008 09:19 PM

So you have a SOA Management dashboard. How do you drive it?

Lately we've done a lot of research and publishing on how Dev & QA teams can ensure better quality throughout the software development and release lifecycle. But what about the IT Operations guys?It seems we are encountering a disconnect betwe

Posted: Feb. 7, 2008 01:07 PM

The Continuous 'C'

Several weeks back I gave you a real life experience that typified why our test strategy we call the Three Cs has Complete as one of those Cs. This blog will give you a different real-life experience on why Continuous deserves C status.I was mee

Posted: Jan. 22, 2008 10:00 AM

Oracle buys BEA - Nice time to get a check-up

The biggest news in software may have already hit this year, but it's not like we didn't hear it coming for the past few months. Oracle finally makes good on its intent to buy BEA at $8.5B: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120048691486294361.htmlTo us

Posted: Jan. 16, 2008 04:41 PM

European SOA: Ahead of the Curve?

I'm in Germany right now, looking forward to a session at ZapThink's Practical SOA in Frankfurt event tomorrow. I'll be joining some peers from companies like T-Mobile, Swisscom, Novartis and SwissLife who are going to be sharing their own SOA succes

Posted: Jan. 14, 2008 03:19 PM

Feeling Crushed under the SOA Data requirement?

One of the most difficult obstacles to attaining enterprise-ready SOA is the sheer scale of the systems and data that need to be managed. To test the actual results of an SOA application, we need a very realistic set of data both positive and ne

Posted: Dec. 27, 2007 02:38 PM

IT Predictions for 2008 -- Are Some Too Late?

Yes, there are many pundits proffering predictions on the coming year, but these are ours. In fielding these over lunch at iTKO, we couldn't help but notice a few of them would have been last year's predictions as well... but, even in IT, not all cha

Posted: Dec. 14, 2007 03:05 PM

Service-Oriented Virtualization: Encore Webinar Dec. 13

Yesterday's webinar with analyst Theresa Lanowitz and our own John Michelsen on "Service-Oriented Virtualization" was well attended - so much so in fact, that our little event room reached capacity!So we are going to do one more live webinar on this

Posted: Dec. 7, 2007 03:55 PM

Webinar on Service Oriented Virtualization

We have been doing so much with Virtualization in this blog that I have wondered if you guys are getting tired of it, yet almost every comment I get in person and most of the press requests are around the virtualization concepts for SOA.And you know

Posted: Nov. 30, 2007 10:38 AM

YOUR FEEDBACK

	Early Notes on GoogleApps By Dave Winer Google News Desk wrote: Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal be...
	Tracking RIAs with Google Analytics and Unica NetInsight By Judah Phillips Georges wrote: Interresting article. Where do you enable "events" in Google Analytics? http://code.go ogle.com/apis/analytics/d ocs/eventTrackerOverview. html says it's only available to Beta participants.
	ASF Grants Synapse Separate, Top-Level Project Billing By Alex Fletcher Bobbi wrote: I found FAQ on this topic at the Servicemix web site to be pretty accurant about the differences between them (http://servicemix.apache .org/how-does-servicemix- compare-to-synapse.html). Only thing is Syanpse developers call it a ESB, I'm not sure if it really is (sq...
	DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like! By Kevin Hoffman DreamSpark News Desk wrote: It appears as though University and high school students will, at some point (I don't know the hardcore details) be able to receive free copies of Visual Studio, SQL server, and other development servers and enterprise servers.
	Washington Shoots Down 3Com Acquisition Deal By Maureen O'Gara 3Com News Desk wrote: Washington gagged at the thought of Huawei Technologies Co., China's largest telecommunications equipment maker and reportedly closely tied to China's military, owning a minority stake in 3Com and so 3Com's deal to get bought for $2.2 billion cash and ...