Chapter 5. Test and Troubleshoot SOA Composites

Testing the strategy, plan, and tactics is mission critical for any IT system implementation for serving business functions. Testing automation has demonstrated its importance and value by reducing the cost and time of testing the lifecycle for agile and iterative implementation of a system. The IT system implementations that are using BPEL Process Manager are usually developed using agile and iterative implementation methodologies to quickly adjust to the business process improvements and changes. In the case of an SOA composite with BPEL Process Manager implementations, to perform an end-to-end functional testing we often emulate external web services as most of the time these services are not available for testing purposes. These external web services are either invoking the SOA composite services or are invoked by the SOA composite service implementation. BPEL Test Suite is used for creating the test cases and emulating services required...