Implementing quality tools under high pressure and short deadline conditions requires development and quality organizations that stand firm on the issues of process integrity. When done rigorously, this provides a resource and a path for software quality to become a practical reality in eCommerce enterprises...
The quality of the code in an eCommerce API tends to suffer from a time crunch-driven perception that there isn’t enough time or money to do a proper job of Software Quality Assurance (SQA), so the engineers will just have to fix the code problems later—often when a defect becomes a critical...
Over the past month I have had the opportunity to look at a number of web services testing tools, the structure of various publicly facing Web Service APIs, and a number of companies who are offering web services API management. Web API’s have long been used to allow programmers access to functionality...
Over the past month I have used SoapUI to load test a REST web services implementation. This testing occurred during the transition of SoapUI between versions 2.5.2 and 3.0. Unfortunately, 2.5.2 had known issues with load testing and 3.0 still wasn’t 100% stable during this time frame. Nevertheless...
As part of a customer contract, over the past 6 weeks QualityLogic's web services testing team utilized SoapUI to develop an automated functional conformance test for a REST API that provides account management services to a variety of related web sites. The 100 resource paths in the API all used...