It always make me happy having people talk about functional and load testing. It avoids so many problems in production.
At work ony client has over 5 environments for testing, development, load testing, etc... and every now and then some change slips to production that cause massive performance problems.
It seemed just like yesterday that Dave Linthicum issued his challenge to the SOA industry: “Move to service-based pricing, I dare you!” (Actually it was a couple of weeks back, in one of his final posts at Real World SOA. Dave now makes his home ar a new InfoWorld site called “Cloud Computing.”
Well, it seems cloud providers are taking more of an interest in the SOA market. I just came across an announcement from Monitis that they are now providing a cloud-based SOAP testing service. The company announced that the online SOAP testing tool “is the latest update for Monitis’ WebLoadTester testing suite, and is specifically intended for applications of Service Oriented Architecture. The suite offers SOAP load testing with simulated heavy traffic in real time, allowing Webmasters to determine how performance can be optimized.”
The vendor observes that “automated load testing usually requires a performance engineer to find the hardware to test, set up load agents on multiple computers, configure the load agents, run the tests, and compile the performance reports.” Their tool, they say, doesn’t require all this up-front work and expertise. Monitis pricing starts at $4.18 per test for use of the tool.
