Some observers still refer to testing as the stepchild of application development. On the other hand, Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with Boston-based ZapThink, calls testing the ''ugly duckling.'' ''If ...

Get your Web service right, or get two earfuls of complaints. In this roundup, I examined three tools that purport to verify that your Web services do what they are supposed to do, that they resist ...

iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced it has released LISA WS-Testing, a fully functional Web services testing solution ...

Distributed components are certainly not brand new; they have been around for at least 15 years, if not longer. (The answer as to how much reuse is really going on is still an open one, however.) But ...

Standardized, reproducible testing is a vital aspect of PCMag.com's reviews. Here's how we evaluate every web hosting service we test. Testing a web hosting service involves doing the obvious: ...

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Fresh from the Test Center: Are your Web services up to snuff? Do they run smoothly, work the way they should? Are you sure? If you're looking for a lower-cost way to test them -- and you and your ...

Web applications have a solid and growing presence in enterprise-level businesses. Benefits of Web-based apps include a lower cost of ownership due to central deployment and maintenance, as well as ...

Web services — those loosely coupled, machine-to-machine transactions — have to work error-free, without human intervention, to achieve their much-heralded ...