OASIS Member News: Parasoft Extends Support for Testing Complex WebServices

[erika@parasoft.com (Erika Delgado)]

Good Morning OASIS Members,

Today we announced the release of Parasoft SOA Test 4.1, our gold 
standard for ensuring secure, reliable, and compliant Service Oriented 
Architectures.
SOA Test was built from the ground up to support your Web services 
initiative and has been on the market for over four years. I've gone 
ahead and listed below
the latest press release.

Should you like to know more about Parasoft SOA Test and/or Parasoft 
solutions,
please feel free to contact me.

Best,
Erika
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*Parasoft Extends Support for Testing Complex Web Services and*

*Heterogeneous SOA Environments with SOA Test 4.1*

*/Comprehensive Solution Helps Enterprises Develop Secure, Reliable Web 
Services/*

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*September 13, 2005 – Monrovia, Calif. –* Parasoft Corporation, leading 
provider of automated software error prevention solutions, announced 
today the release of Parasoft SOA Test 4.1, its automated test and 
analysis product for web services and Service Oriented Architecture 
(SOA) implementations. The new release extends support for the testing 
of complex web services transactions and SOA implementations based on 
heterogeneous messaging and transport protocols. SOA Test allows users 
to verify all aspects of a Web service with one comprehensive, automated 
testing suite ensuring those services meet security, reliability, 
performance and reuse objectives.

Parasoft SOA Test 4.1 adds IBM MQ, TIBCO Rendezvous, and SMTP to the 
list of messaging and transport protocols it supports for testing and 
validating XML/SOAP transactions, extending its support for the testing 
of heterogeneous SOA environments. The release provides for the 
functional and load testing of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB’s), allowing 
EJB’s to be tested directly through their remote interfaces without 
having to go through web or web service interfaces. To better enable the 
configuration of test scenarios that map to complex use case 
requirements, SOA Test 4.1 provides support for “if/else” and “do while” 
logic flow within its auto-generated test suites and provides extended 
control of parameterization of test variables and reference data sources.

“As enterprises extend their implementations of web services and SOA, 
their testing and validation of those services requires the ability to 
generate test scenarios that fully represent the complexity of the 
business transactions to be enacted by them and the heterogeneous

infrastructures of messaging and transport protocols they will be based 
on. This is a major challenge,” said Wayne Ariola, Vice President of 
Corporate Development at Parasoft. “We continue to extend the 
capabilities of SOA Test to provide organizations with the support and 
automation they need to validate their web services for the security, 
reliability and performance that is required of them.” accomplishes that 
goal, offering automated unit testing, penetration testing, scenario 
testing, load and performance testing, and regression testing to make 
sure each of the individual components of the Web service are operating 
the way you would expect.”

SOA Test is an automated suite of test and analysis tools that provide 
organizations deploying Web services or SOAs with the means to ensure 
those deployments are secure, reliable and compliant. SOA Test provides 
a breadth of functionality including four-tier WSDL validation, unit and 
functional testing of the client, unit and functional testing of the 
server, performance testing, the graphical modeling and test of complex 
scenarios, penetration testing for security validation and full 
regression testing. SOA Test addresses key Web service issues such as 
interoperability, security, compliance, change management, and scalability.

*Availability*

SOA Test 4.1 is available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux and 
Solaris. Pricing starts at $3,995. www.parasoft.com/SOA_Test

*About Parasoft*

Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions for automated 
software test and analysis and the establishment of software error 
prevention practices as an integrated part of the software development 
lifecycle. Parasoft’s product suite enables software development and IT 
organizations to significantly reduce costs and delivery delays, ensure 
application reliability and security, and improve the quality of the 
software they develop and deploy through the practice of Automated Error 
Prevention (AEP). Parasoft has more than 10,000 clients worldwide 
including: Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, Disney, Ericsson, IBM, Lehman 
Brothers, Lockheed, Lexis-Nexis, Sabre Holdings, SBC and Yahoo. Founded 
in 1987, Parasoft is a privately held* *company headquartered in 
Monrovia, CA. For more information visit: www.parasoft.com 
<http://www.parasoft.com/>.

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Regards,

Erika Delgado
Parasoft Corporation           	
101 E. Huntington Drive 2nd Floor        
Monrovia, CA. 91016
voice: (626) 256-3680 ext. 1271	fax: (626) 256-6884
email: erika@parasoft.com 	            web: www.parasoft.com