Green Hat - Next Generation SOA Testing Tool with Industry First Features

"We believe that the tipping point in SOA testing has occurred," said Peter Cole. "Organizations want to fast track a more pragmatic approach to SOA even as they are adding more SOA technologies into their environment. They want all the lessons learned to benefit their next business process transformation."

Green Hat, the originator of automated testing technology for integration and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), have released the fifth generation of its core offering, GH Tester.

Find out more about how you can improve your SOA project outcomes using GH Tester V5.0, by requesting an Information Pack .   

Implementing SOA architectures is a core part of the AIPEX service offering. AIPEX consultants have extensive experience in implementing and maintaining SOA based solutions. Using Green Hat tools we have been able to obtain higher quality outcome with less development and testing time.

Keeping with Green Hat tradition of introducing industry firsts in each new release of existing offerings, GH Tester 5.0 introduces several firsts to make testing simple for complex business processes that run on multiple SOA technologies, including

·         the first coverage reports for popular SOA platforms.

·         new levels of efficiency, quality and sustainability

·         direct contribution to growth and cost-cutting measures from SOA.

AIPEX is pleased to make the product available to customers in this region and we offer  a range of services including best practice frameworks and continuous automation testing solutions for your SOA environment,

 GH Tester 5.0 Features

GH Tester is the first SOA test automation product to include coverage reports for popular SOA platforms such as Software AG and TIBCO to allow them to measure how effective their automation efforts are. This is particularly valuable where testing may be done by a third party. Managers now have real metrics to give them confidence about quality.

Green Hat customers routinely experience efficiency gains in excess of 50% at any stage of testing. For example, tasks related to complex data field management were reduced from weeks to hours. Customers see error rates drop with each release, even down to an unprecedented Six Sigma level of zero. Productivity gains as high as 400% benefit from both reduction of effort and ability to complete more testing.

New in GH Tester 5.0 are:

Testing in minutes  Test cases can be created, assembled into test suites, data managed, tests run and rerun, and results produced in literally minutes. Test generation is automated with wizards  not coded or scripted  from various source documents, WSDLs and actual composite business processes.

System diagrams - GH Tester 5.0 introspects all the connections and paths, revealing system dependencies. Abstract trees have been replaced with the same intuitive system diagram that people use to describe the system interactions to one another.

Coverage reports-These are the first coverage reports available for integration and SOA testing. Business processes contain multiple sub-processes and branches within those. GH Tester 5.0 allows users to match the level of testing effort to goals supported by coverage data and risk assessments.

Simulation enhancements Green Hat invented simulation to automate stub creation. GH Tester 5.0 takes this further, eliminating coding for complex processes. Creating virtualized environments for functional or performance testing is a superior offering given the automated nature of creating simulation assets and the native visibility into numerous SOA and messaging technologies. Connections and integrations occur between internal systems, externally with third parties and virtually in the cloud. Tests can be run in multiple environments.

Unique policy compliance automation  Most testing solutions focus on running tests (real time or batch) from the governance platform, but SOA governance needs to focus on certifying that services are "Ready for Reuse" according to stated policies. Green Hat introduces pre-built Quality Policies that can be parameterized by each organization to suit their quality objectives. These levels of quality are then enforced by the governance solution.

These benefits are not gained by product alone. It has been proven time and time again on customer engagements that tools will only get you part of the benefit. A proven methodology utilising the tool throughout the SOA and integration lifecycle is the best way to reduce integration risk, the biggest cause of delays on these types of projects. Green Hat's SOA Success methodology is taught to customers as part of a deployment programme.

Automate now. Make business better.