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SOA – Agileor Fragile?
Colin Robb, HP, UK
Europe’s Premier Software Testing EventWorld Forum Convention Centre, The Hague, Netherlands
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“The Future of Software Testing”
SOA –Agile or Fragile?
Colin RobbHP Software Product Marketing Director
What is the situation?
Why is this a problem?
How is the industry responding?
What is the impact on testing?
How can we be prepared?
What is the situation?
Business Drivers
Financial
Government
TechnologyMultiple pricing quotation engines
Grew through M&A
12 different agencies provide similar services
Integrate customer experience across all delivery channels
Merge agencies for better service and lower administrative costs
Need to redesign business process to remove inefficiencies
Applications in a Typical Organisation
CIO
Mainframe, Client/Server, Web
CRM Operations e-Commerce Finance
Business Logic
Business Logic
Business Logic
Business Logic
Business
Process
Why is this a problem?
ConnectedProcesses
Agile
Fast to Market
FlexibleCompetitive
Modern
Compliant
SLOWTraditional IT is
Expensive and
Inefficient
But …
Fundamental change is required
How is the industry responding?
Service Orientation
A business service is a
logical unit of workdefined in business
terms
Business
Logic
LEGACY ERP CRM FINANCE
Business
Logic
Business
Logic
Business
Logic
Open Account
Change
Address
View Charges
Execute Trade
Etc., etc.
Service Oriented Architecture
CIO
Mainframe, Client/Server, Web
CRM Operations e-Commerce Finance
Business Logic
Business Logic
Business Logic
Business Logic
New Business Processes
Business Services
But now let’s talk about the Real World …
Today’s solutions are tomorrow’s problems
HideSupport through
alignment and management
IT Integration – The Real World
Business Complexity:
IT Complexity:
Standard Format
HiddenComplexity
How SOA WorksService
Service
Operations
External
Data Objects
Public Interface
Internal
FunctionalityInternal
Data
Private
Implementation
Does this apply to me though?
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Platform For Packaged Business Processes
FLEXIBLE PACKAGED BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
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Procure-to-Pay
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Platform For Custom Business Processes
REUSE PROCESS STEPS AND
ENTERPRISE SERVICES IN
CUSTOM PROCESSES
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ENTERPRISE
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EnterpriseServices
Repository
Plan Manuf.
Auction
Source
COMPOSE DIFFERENTIATING PROCESSES
Procure
Availability-to-Sale
P2P
O2C
M2i
What is the impact on testing?
Who will test our
services?
What is the weakest link?
What if a dependent service is
unavailable?
How do we avoid being
the bottleneck?
How do I know what
has changed?
Who is responsible
for the service?
Vulnerability
Interoperability
10 Services10 Operations10 Datapoints
=1000 Permutations
Challenges Across the LifecycleMultiple Stakeholders
Providers
Consumers
CTO Office
Initiate
Will others see valuein my services?
Can I find and trustservices?
Does the enterprise work on the right
services?
Build
Can other groups develop against my
services?
How do I develop and test against
services out of my control?
Can I establish a consistent and
repeatable imple-mentation process?
Operate
How do I manage changes without
disrupting my consumers?
Do I get the expected quality of
service?
Can I control what goes into
production?
How can we be prepared?
Three Critical Functions
• Visibility
• Trust
• Control
Governance
• Functional Validation
• Performance Optimisation
• Security Verification
Quality
• Service Level Management
• Problem Resolution
• Change Impact
Management
Collaboration
Governance
Quality Management
ChangeNew Challenges
Stakeholders
ComplexityVisibility
Responsibility
