Thanks to the IT world’s ongoing love affair with Web services and the appearance of more and more Web-service construction tools, Web services are becoming easy to create — and oh so easy to botch. A ...

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 ...

Monrovia-based ParaSoft, a developer of software testing tools, said today that it has released an upgrade of its Web Services testing software. ParaSoft's upgraded SOAtest 4.5 software adds the ...

Testing in Web-based applications is complicated by several factors, such as a lack of cost-effective tools for both Web and Web-service testing, lack of flexibility in these tools, and the fact that ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

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Web services provide organizations with flexible, standards-based mechanisms for deploying business logic and functionality to distributed consumers. When functionality is distributed, however, ...