SOA Testing Workshop Training

Quality assurance, application developers, and enterprise architects will all gain considerable value from this curriculum.

• SOA fundamentals
• SOA testing challenges
• Components of SOA testing
• Testing SOA artifacts
• SOA testing strategies
• Survey of SOA testing tools
• Detailed look at customer's SOA tool
• Best practices for SOA testing

• Highlight foundational SOA concepts
• Gain a realistic understanding of the various challenges and unique considerations that SOA brings into play for testing and quality assurance
• Learn how to apply unit testing, integration testing, and customer acceptance testing to a service oriented enterprise
• Explore the various types of artifacts introduced by SOA (WSDL, BPEL, SOAP, etc.) and the implications they have for testing
• Gain hands-on experience using a SOA testing tool to test both services and business processes

No specialized technical pre-requisites are required for this course; however a basic understanding of SOA and some knowledge in IT systems and distributed computing is expected.

Outline of SOA Testing Workshop Training 1. SOA Fundamentals

• Objectives
• Defining Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Putting SOA in Context
• SOA As an Alignment Strategy
• The SOA Umbrella
• What s a Service?
• Service Actors
• Serving Up SOA
• Business Process Management
• Modeling Processes
• Application Integration
• SOA Governance
• Life Cycle Stages for Governance
• SOA Job Role Impact
• Services Please!
• SOA Re-Organization
• What Makes a Good Design?
• Is This a New Concept?
• Service Orienting the Enterprise
• Service Oriented Thinking
• SOA Is Perfect NOT!
• Service Characteristics
• When Do I Need a Service?
• About Services in SOA
• Contract-Driven Software
• SOA Standards
• Summary

2. Introduction to Web Services

• A Conceptual Look at Services
• Defining Services
• Service Communication Analogy
• Three Key Service Questions
• Connecting the Dots
• What Is a Web Service?
• Enterprise Assets as Services
• Typical Development Workflow
• Binding via SOAP
• SOAP in Protocol Stack
• SOAP Structure
• SOAP Message Architecture
• Applying SOAP
• WSDL Overview
• Interface via WSDL
• WSDL Structure
• Applying WSDL
• Locating a Service
• UDDI Overview
• UDDI Terminology
• UDDI Structure
• Applying UDDI
• WS-I Overview
• WS-I Deliverables

3. Layers of Services

• What Is Layering?
• SOA Layers
• Layering Illustration
• Data Storage Layer
• Application Logic Layer
• Adapter Layer
• Application Service Layer
• Business Service Layer
• Orchestration Layer
• Aux: Data Service Layer
• Aux: Security Service Layer
• Layering Concepts
• Layering Rules of Thumb
• In Review

4. Introduction to SOA Testing

• Introduction
• The SOA Components to Test
• Parts of a Test Framework
• Layered Component Testing
• Testing the SOA Layers
• Phased Testing
• SOA Testing Challenges 1/3
• SOA Testing Challenges 2/3
• SOA Testing Challenges 3/3
• SOA Testing Opportunities

5. Unit Testing SOA Components

• Verification Scenarios
• Unit Testing a Web Service
• Other Types of Services
• Unit Testing Guidance
• Unit Testing SOA Components
• More Details: Testing Data Maps
• Data Map Test Guidance
• More Details: Business Process
• Unit Testing Business Process
• Business Process Test Guidance
• Human Workflow
• Unit Test Human Interface
• Human Interface Test Guidance
• White Box Testing

6. Integration Test

• What is Integration Testing?
• Types of Integration Tests
• The Governance Aspect
• Component Ownership 1/2
• Component Ownership 2/2
• Integration Testing Strategies
• Incremental Strategies
• Top-down Integration
• Bottom-up Integration
• Umbrella / Critical Path Integration
• Setting Up a Service Integration Test System
• Setting Up a Process Integration Test System
• Creating a Script To Test a Service
• Running a Test Case for a Service
• Creating a Business Process Test Script
• Running a Test Case for a Process

7. Non-Functional Testing

• Performance Testing
• Security Testing
• Web Service Attacks 1/4
• Web Service Attacks 2/4
• Web Service Attacks 3/4
• Web Service Attacks 4/4
• Interoperability Testing
• WS-Interoperability
• Interoperability Testing a Service
• Interoperability Testing a Business Process
• Common Interoperability Issues
• Process State Persistence Testing
• Process Versioning Testing

8. Scenario

Appendix A. Introduction to WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) v6

• WebSphere Process Server v6
• WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) v6
• SCA Basics
• Wiring Example
• Key Features of WID
• Perspectives, Views, and Editors
• Creating Artifacts
• Unit Testing Artifacts

Appendix B. SOA Value Proposition

• The Value of SOA
• Reducing Integration Expense
• Integration Costs Illustration
• Ripple effect of changes
• The Value of SOA Layering
• SOA Reduces Integration Costs
• Increasing Asset Reuse
• SOA Economics/ROI
• Asset Reuse Illustration
• Service Reuse v. Object Reuse
• Increasing Business Agility
• Business Agility Illustration
• Traditional EAI Approach
• Problems with Traditional EAI Approach
• Change Flow Using Legacy Approach
• SOA Agility
• Build the Services
• Build the Process
• We Can Easily Change the Process
• Reducing Business Risk
• Risk reduction illustration
• SOA Eases Compliance Risk
• Business Advantages
• ROI Quantification Hurdles
• Real World SOA Example 1
• Real World SOA Example 2
• Real World SOA Example 3
• Real World SOA Example 4