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Issue 8   November 7, 2006

Welcome to the eighth issue of the STAR Tester! Thank you all for your help and support over the past months. I am pleased so many of you have subscribed and acknowledged each issue as a valued testing resource.

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This issue contains articles from two leading tool vendors who will be present in Manchester this year. We also bring you a very interesting article on Iterative Automation.
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Off-shoring – A False Economy In A Testing Market
by Pete Stock, SDLC, UK

Testing your company’s IT systems and applications. A necessary job, but an easy one to tick off the list, right? You just offshore your requirements to someone sitting in a room far, far away, they test your software out of sight and you sit back, smug in the knowledge that you’re realising great savings in time and money, unlike many of your competitors who are still utilising UK based software testers.


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Iterative Automation

by Vijay Acharya, RelQ, UK

In this article, I would like to share my experiences of test automation, when confronted with requirement of automating multiple products within a suite and to deliver automated scripts within short span of time.

A Peek into the Product

The product is an Industrial Engineering workflow management system, pre-dominantly used by plant design engineers. The product has series of interfaces to process information from disparate plant design systems, and sends the output in the form of 2d or 3d graphical images over an intranet portal.
The suite of four products are tightly integrated to manage the chain of activities starting from creating individual design elements to integrating and creating whole plant design diagrams.


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Testing SOA Applications And Services

                                 
by Colin Robb, Mercury, UK

Few other innovations in IT offer the transformative potential of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), and Gartner estimates that by 2008, 80 percent of IT initiatives will be service-oriented.

The basis of SOA is not new – composite business applications made up of separate, distributed services which can be shared and reused, from internal or external sources – we’ve seen it before in guises such as CORBA. However, it is the adoption of global standards which is driving the current popularity of the SOA approach.


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