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Testing SOA Applications and Services

Overview The successful deployment of a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) requires the ability to manage the quality of these services so organizations can optimize the use of IT resources and reuse services across multiple applications to enhance business agility. This white paper explains the need for SOA, the implications of SOA in testing and how Mercury's solutions address the entire lifecycle of SOA services and composite applications.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Mercury Interactive	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2006	Downloads	10
Format	White Papers
Topics	Service Level Management, Network Design, Server Consolidation, Scalability, High Availability, Infrastructure Management, Quality of Service

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