| By Jason English |
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| September 4, 2007 07:30 PM EDT |
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We've been looking for some research to benchmark the maturity of SOA Testing efforts in isolation of SOA Governance as a whole. So when I heard Perry Donham was doing this over at Aberdeen, we wanted to participate in underwriting the survey and asking our users to contribute.
"SOA and Web Services Testing: How Different Can It Be?"
A free copy of the report is available here: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410567&cid=4117
Of particular interest was less emphasis on component-level testing, and from 63% (average) to 81% (best in class) finding complete lifecycle testing to be a key to success - and these firms are overwhelmingly measuring quality by lifecycle metrics (time to release functionality, process quality) instead of counting the number of bugs per KLOC.
One area of concern was in the level of SOA training or expertise within organizations -- averaging 35% right now. A shortage of good architectural talent is certainly evident, but fortunately a majority of the responding companies are planning to address that over the coming year.
Anyway, it's fresh research, grab your own copy and join the discussion. Thanks to all of the LISA enterprise and WS-Testing users who took the time to participate in the sample group for Aberdeen.
- Jason
Jason joined iTKO in 2004, bringing more than 15 years of experience in executing marketing plans, re-engineering business processes and meeting customer requirements for companies such as IBM, EDS, Delphi, TaylorMade, Sun, Motorola and Sprint. As Director of eMarketing and Executive Producer, in2action Consulting at i2 Technologies, he was responsible for i2's outbound messaging during a period of extreme growth, as well as marketing services and working directly with clients to build easy-to-learn front ends to B2B systems. Prior to that, he managed customer experience as an Information Architect at Agency.com. Jason scored and designed several internationally released computer games in addition to conventional print advertising and television commercials.
