SilkPerformer SOA Edition

软件组件和单元测试工具

As the central building blocks of SOA-based applications, server-side software components such as Web services are key to application quality. SilkPerformer? SOA Edition from Borland provides software component and unit testing capabilities for optimizing the three major quality aspects of critical SOA components early in the application lifecycle - even before client applications are available:

• Functionality
• Performance
• Interoperability

Unlike regular unit testing tools, SilkPerformer SOA Edition tests Web services, EJBs, and .NET server components under realistic server conditions by exposing them to concurrent user access. What's more, its visual scripting technology and script import wizards are quick and easy to use. As a result, even non-programmers can detect potential problems that occur only under real-world conditions … resolve issues early in development before they become costly realities … and release high quality applications on time.

Features

• Powerful, easy-to-use tool tests the functionality, performance and interoperability of remote components under concurrent access
• Visual scripting technology enables non-programmers to create and execute tests; alternatively developers can build tests using Java? or .NET programming languages
• Java/.NET Explorer and JUnit/NUnit test importer simplify early load testing of remote application components (such as Web services, EJBs, .NET, COM server components)
• Advanced wizards provide a simple point-and-click approach to accessing components and customizing test parameters with random values
• Visual interface allows debugging during scripting to accelerate test generation
• Point-and-click support for complex method parameters makes it easy to test even the most sophisticated transactions
• Model-driven approach to test case definition makes it easy to build meaningful test cases
• Embedded Java and .NET frameworks let you reuse JUnit or NUnit test cases from development to streamline concurrency testing
• Dual approach to testing delineates QA and development tasks and defines interfaces for each, simplifying cross-department communication
• Open plug-in framework for 3rd party code-level diagnostics tools to provide top-down analysis of errors and performance problems starting from the end user view down to the individual component/line of the application code
• Integration with StarTeam? from within the SilkPerformer Workbench GUI to manage, share, and control versioning of SilkPerformer test assets such as project files and test scripts
• Integration with SilkCentral? Test Manager? allows unattended regression tests to ensure functionality from build to build

Supported Environments

Web services

• Protocol level (HTTP/XML)
• Apache AXIS (Java?) SOAP stack
• MS .NET SOAP stack

Java server components

• Enterprise Java Beans
• Java RMI Objects

.NET server components

• .NET Serviced Components
• .NET Remoting Objects

(D)COM server components

• MTS/COM+ components
• (D)COM objects