The iTKO SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization Soapbox

Move to the New iTKO Blog

After more than 3 years of blogging, we've finally moved our discussion on SOA Testing, Validation and Virtualization to a dedicated new home within the itko.com site. So point your RSS feeds and news pages to: http://blog.itko.com. The new blog wi

Posted: Jun. 4, 2008 04:28 PM

Can Virtual Environments take Performance & Load Testing?

We've talked a lot in previous posts about how the practice and technology of Virtualization really has legs -- it keeps moving forward, from hardware virtualization, virtual test beds, to virtual endpoints, to actually simulating the behavior of the

Posted: May. 20, 2008 12:32 AM

WS-FalseSecurity: Are you at risk?

In our previous post, we mentioned how the notion of standards in SOA can be just the opposite. This is largely because the standards are generally generated by whatever tool you are using to create services its not something you construct by hand

Posted: Mar. 24, 2008 10:07 AM

Wring ROI out of your UDDI Registry/Repository by plugging in SOA Validation

Weve been talking about validating SOA Governance approaches for three years now, but surprisingly, we have found that very few enterprise IT shops of any serious scale are actually using them to their potential at this point. I had lunch yesterday

Posted: Mar. 20, 2008 09:19 PM

So you have a SOA Management dashboard. How do you drive it?

Lately we've done a lot of research and publishing on how Dev & QA teams can ensure better quality throughout the software development and release lifecycle. But what about the IT Operations guys? It seems we are encountering a disconnect bet

Posted: Feb. 7, 2008 01:07 PM

The Continuous 'C'

Several weeks back I gave you a real life experience that typified why our test strategy we call the Three Cs has Complete as one of those Cs. This blog will give you a different real-life experience on why Continuous deserves C status. I was m

Posted: Jan. 22, 2008 10:00 AM

Oracle buys BEA - Nice time to get a check-up

The biggest news in software may have already hit this year, but it's not like we didn't hear it coming for the past few months. Oracle finally makes good on its intent to buy BEA at $8.5B: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120048691486294361.html To

Posted: Jan. 16, 2008 04:41 PM

European SOA: Ahead of the Curve?

I'm in Germany right now, looking forward to a session at ZapThink's Practical SOA in Frankfurt event tomorrow. I'll be joining some peers from companies like T-Mobile, Swisscom, Novartis and SwissLife who are going to be sharing their own SOA succes

Posted: Jan. 14, 2008 03:19 PM

Feeling Crushed under the SOA Data requirement?

One of the most difficult obstacles to attaining enterprise-ready SOA is the sheer scale of the systems and data that need to be managed. To test the actual results of an SOA application, we need a very realistic set of data both positive and ne

Posted: Dec. 27, 2007 02:38 PM

IT Predictions for 2008 -- Are Some Too Late?

Yes, there are many pundits proffering predictions on the coming year, but these are ours. In fielding these over lunch at iTKO, we couldn't help but notice a few of them would have been last year's predictions as well... but, even in IT, not all cha

Posted: Dec. 14, 2007 03:05 PM

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