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News Release from: Scientific Computers | Subject: Firstact Testing Tool
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2003
Industry's first Web Services Testing
Tool
The latest Firstact release ensures that web services applications meet performance expectations without delaying launch or adding development costs.
The latest Firstact release ensures that web services applications meet performance expectations without delaying launch or adding development costs With new diagnostic capabilities and enhanced features, FirstACT allows software developers or quality assurance engineers to quickly and automatically create, execute, and maintain performance tests for individual Web Services
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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FirstACT's testing paradigm simulates real-world demands on Web Services, thus enabling companies to meet the high-quality performance expectations of their Web Service applications while reducing development costs and speeding time to market.
Questra Corporation, a pioneer in the use of Web Services, relies on FirstACT to test their Smart Service solutions.
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Web Services facilitates the easy exchange of business-critical data and information across heterogeneous network systems.
Gartner estimates that 75% of all businesses with more than 77 million in sales will have begun to develop Web Services applications or will have deployed a production system using Web Services technology by the end of 2002.
As part of this move to Web Services, "vendors are moving forward with the technology and architecture elements underlying a Web Services application model," Gartner reports.
While this model holds exciting potential, the added protocol layers necessary to implement it can have a serious impact on application performance, causing delays in development and in the retrieval of information for end users.
FirstACT is the only complete solution that focuses on ensuring that companies that invest in this new technology can deliver high quality, high performance Web Services to their customers and business partners.
FirstACT does this by making the testing of Web Services simple, speedy, and straightforward.
Today, Web Services play an increasingly prominent role in the success of enterprise software projects, but they can only deliver on their promise if they perform reliably.
With its graphical user interface and extensive test-case generation capability, FirstACT is the first Web Services testing tool that can be used by software developers or QA test engineers.
As a result, companies can decide which department can most cost effectively take responsibility for the critical task of performance testing Web Services.
The award from PC Magazine is the second honour FarSight has won in as many months.
In November, Communications Outsourcing Magazine named FarSight "Service of the Year.".
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