Tony Carrato is IBM's Lead Architect for Asia-Pacific, in the SOA Advanced Technology team from IBM Software Group.   He has over 30 years experience in the IT industry and his involvement with The Open Group goes back to the days of the Open Software Foundation in the early 1990's.   Tony is co-chair of the SOA Working Group and of the SOA Governance work team.

Presentation
Some Experiences with SOA Testing
Testing is often the underappreciated part of any development program.   However, it's one of the most important parts of the program.   Testing isn't just about finding bugs; it's about knowing if the results of the program will actually meet the expectations of the program sponsor. Over the last several months the question has arisen is testing for SOA different and, if so, how?. A team at IBM, from IBM Research, Software Group and Services started looking at this problem in 2006.

This session, which is about challenges, methods and processes, not about products, will explore what th eteam has learned in trying to understand how SOA testing is different.   The session won't address the whole testing cycle, instead if will focus on what the test architect needs to think about when planning for SOA testing, including:

• when to start testing
• testing services vs. testing applications
• testing for variability
• performance testing of SOA solutions

The session will bring experiences from real projects and analysis of the lessons learned in those projects.

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