Service Based Architecture Testing

 

The service-based computing paradigm is rapidly gaining ground as a viable and cost-effective choice for software based applications.

In the traditional approach to software design and packaging, all the components of a system are packaged together, even when the majority of them are rarely used. Users are forced to buy, install and retain increasingly complex and expensive applications and the software backing them.

The service-based solution is a more flexible approach that allows components to be loaded on demand - as and when they are needed. They are then removed when no longer required. These are commonly called service components.

This type of service has been boosted by the development of web-based services where clients and service providers are permanently hosted on different servers and interaction occurs by messages written in an XML compliant language over the Internet. Therefore web-based services are an easily recognised example of a service-based offering.

This approach has many advantages including:

  • Components are smaller and are easier to test and maintain
  • Updating of functionality is simpler
  • Important non-functional features such as security and quality are more easily managed and delivered
  • More flexible pricing policies attractive to the customer can be implemented

 

 

 

 

SQS-UK have undertaken several successful projects and deployed methodologies, tools and processes to enable effective implementation.

Please call us on 01483 733106 or email david.tracey@sqs-uk.com for details.