First international workshop on service-oriented architecture testing (SOAT 2009)

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of designing, developing, deploying, and managing enterprise systems where business needs and technical solutions are closely aligned. SOA offers a number of potential benefits, such as cost-efficiency and agility. However, adopting SOA is not without considerable challenges. For example, the most common way to implement a SOA-based system is with Web services, but the standards that define Web services are evolving rapidly and many of the Web services tools are still somewhat immature. There is also the question of how to leverage existing legacy assets within a SOA context. Perhaps most importantly, there are serious challenges related to the testing of SOA-based systems that must be addressed before the SOA paradigm will enjoy broadbased success.