The need to provide businesses with greater agility and visibility has led to the prevalence of Web Services. The ease and the low cost involved with providing web services have made Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems a mainstream approach to build enterprise systems.

However, SOA with its complexity of integrating multitude of heterogeneous systems creates various testing challenges around the messages, interfaces, and business processes operating in an SOA framework.

While use of Web Services creates flexibility by integrating multiple services to form a new business service, it can also create new points of failure at these various connection points, all of which need to be tested. The problem is compounded by the fact that Web Services create almost a stateless, GUI-less environment which restricts the test engineer from using traditional approaches – which is typically very user-interface and front-end dependent.

SNS testing services in this area helps clients:

• create an automation framework for testing web services in SOA environment
• automate testing using various mechanisms such as test files
• set up background error detection processes
• provide maximum coverage of business requirements
• enable bulk testing and regression testing