Service Quality and Validation
Transaction Assurance Starts with Service Quality and Validation
Driving service quality and validation early in the development lifecycle is essential to ensure that Web services perform well and consistently in production from the start and when they are combined and reused to meet new business requirements. As each service gets farther away from development, the more difficult—and costly—it becomes to identify issues that can cause business transaction failure and application downtime.
However, there are challenges inherent in developing high-quality Web services. These include a heavy reliance on XML as well as difficulties in debugging and testing distributed software and a heightened need for cross-team collaboration.
Actional: Validating Web Service Quality, Performance, and Compliance in Pre-production
A free desktop product, Progress® Actional® Diagnostics accelerates the development and testing of Web services and SOA applications while increasing their quality, performance, and compliance—regardless of platform or knowledge of XML. Built on award-winning Mind reef® SOAP scope® technology, Actional Diagnostics helps application developers and service consumers to rapidly diagnose, reproduce, and resolve problems and improve performance with integrated tools for:
- Invoking and resending services - SOAP, REST, and POX
- Understanding service behavior with no coding required
- Gaining transaction-level application visibility
- Conducting unit, function, regression, and load testing
- Simulating services and scenario testing
- Ensuring compliance with industry standards
- And much more!
Progress® Actional® Application Development builds on the capabilities of Actional Diagnostics to provide additional robust capabilities for pre-production teams. These include tools for load checking, policy authoring and checking, and a collaborative environment that enables team members to share test assets. Actional Application Development allows everyone on the pre-production team—architects, developers, testers, business analysts, and managers—to collaborate to drive quality throughout the service lifecycle. By leveraging each other's work, they can eliminate problems earlier in the lifecycle when they are easier to find and less costly to fix.
Progress® Actional® Enterprise is a comprehensive product for managing distributed, interconnected applications over their lifecycle. It incorporates all Actional tools for service quality and validation in pre-production and combines them with robust capabilities for end-to-end visualization, root cause analysis, business support, and security and compliance in the runtime environment. Actional Enterprise also integrates the runtime and pre-production environments for faster exception management by the entire team, decreasing the time and costs of applications support.
Service Quality and Validation: Design-time—and Runtime—Benefits
By driving quality and validation early in the service or application development lifecycle, Actional products save time and money while delivering well-tested, scalable, and compliant services faster. In turn, organizations gain a higher degree of assurance in the reliability and performance of their service-driven applications and business transactions.
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