Close
  • Latest News
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Networking
  • Cybersecurity
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Storage
  • Sponsored
  • Mobile
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
Read Down
Sign in
Close
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Read Down
Password recovery
Recover your password
Close
Search
Logo
Logo
  • Latest News
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Networking
  • Cybersecurity
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Storage
  • Sponsored
  • Mobile
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
More
    Home Applications
    • Applications

    WS-I Readies New Testing Tools

    By
    Darryl K. Taft
    -
    August 13, 2003
    Share
    Facebook
    Twitter
    Linkedin

      BOSTON—With the Web Services Interoperability Organizations (WS-I) Basic Profile 1.0 now available, the next step will be to test for conformance to the profile and WS-I is working to deliver that, officials said.

      Jacques Durand, director of industry relations and standards at Fujitsu Software and chair of the WS-I Test Tools Working Group, said the organization is slated to ship tools and sample applications to help users test conformance in the fall.

      “We are currently in the QA [quality assurance] phase, and we have been for about a month now,” Durand told eWEEK at the XML Web Services One conference here. He said WS-I is working on tools to test both Java- and C#-based Web services.

      “If all goes well, well freeze it [the test tool code] on the 24th [of August],” he said.

      Rob Cheng, principal product manager at Oracle and a chairman of WS-Is communications effort, said although the Basic Profile 1.0 was announced Tuesday and the tools to test conformance will not be available for another month or more it still gives users the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the profile before they actually need to begin putting their Web services through the tests for compliance.

      Durand said his group has developed more than 100 test assertions. He said the entire group of 10 companies contributed technology to devise the test tools and sample applications, but that Microsoft Corp. was the main contributor in the tools arena. Other companies in the group included IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., Fujitsu, BEA Systems Inc. and others.

      Tom Glover, chairman of WS-I and an IBM engineer, said the WS-I tools are intended to be a benchmarking mechanism. He said there is room to innovate on top of the base toolset the organization will deliver. One company that has heeded this call is Mindreef Inc., Hollis, N.H., which announced the availability of its Web services testing tool, SOAPscope 2.0, at the conference.

      Later at a birds-of-a-feather session, Durand said the WS-I tools will support WS-I Profile Conformance testing as well as interoperability testing. And profile conformance is a prerequisite for further interoperability testing, he said.

      Though the tools come in two versions to cover the Java/Apache environment and the C#/Internet Information Services (IIS) environment, “you can mix and match” Java and C#-based Web services for testing.

      However, the WS-I tools do not cover referenced specifications, interpretation issues and architecture singularities, Durand said.

      “The next challenge for Jacques and his team will be how to deal with security,” Glover said.

      Chris Ferris, chair of the WS-I Basic Profile working group and a software architect at IBM, said Durands group will next take on the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1, which includes support for attachments, and then deal with creating a testing environment and tools for a basic security profile for Web services interoperability.

      The toolset consists of two main elements: a message monitor and an analyzer, Durand said. It also generates detailed reports on whether the application passed or failed the tests and why (for failures), he said.

      Darryl K. Taft
      Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.

      MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

      Big Data and Analytics

      Alteryx’s Suresh Vittal on the Democratization of...

      James Maguire - May 31, 2022 0
      I spoke with Suresh Vittal, Chief Product Officer at Alteryx, about the industry mega-shift toward making data analytics tools accessible to a company’s complete...
      Read more
      Cybersecurity

      Visa’s Michael Jabbara on Cybersecurity and Digital...

      James Maguire - May 17, 2022 0
      I spoke with Michael Jabbara, VP and Global Head of Fraud Services at Visa, about the cybersecurity technology used to ensure the safe transfer...
      Read more
      Applications

      Cisco’s Thimaya Subaiya on Customer Experience in...

      James Maguire - May 10, 2022 0
      I spoke with Thimaya Subaiya, SVP and GM of Global Customer Experience at Cisco, about the factors that create good customer experience – and...
      Read more
      Cloud

      IGEL CEO Jed Ayres on Edge and...

      James Maguire - June 14, 2022 0
      I spoke with Jed Ayres, CEO of IGEL, about the endpoint sector, and an open source OS for the cloud; we also spoke about...
      Read more
      Big Data and Analytics

      GoodData CEO Roman Stanek on Business Intelligence...

      James Maguire - May 4, 2022 0
      I spoke with Roman Stanek, CEO of GoodData, about business intelligence, data as a service, and the frustration that many executives have with data...
      Read more
      Logo

      eWeek has the latest technology news and analysis, buying guides, and product reviews for IT professionals and technology buyers. The site’s focus is on innovative solutions and covering in-depth technical content. eWeek stays on the cutting edge of technology news and IT trends through interviews and expert analysis. Gain insight from top innovators and thought leaders in the fields of IT, business, enterprise software, startups, and more.

      Facebook
      Linkedin
      RSS
      Twitter
      Youtube

      Advertisers

      Advertise with TechnologyAdvice on eWeek and our other IT-focused platforms.

      Advertise with Us

      Menu

      • About eWeek
      • Subscribe to our Newsletter
      • Latest News

      Our Brands

      • Privacy Policy
      • Terms
      • About
      • Contact
      • Advertise
      • Sitemap
      • California – Do Not Sell My Information

      Property of TechnologyAdvice.
      © 2022 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

      Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.

      ×