Edison, NJ June 26, 2008 - Tekmark® Global Solutions LLC, one of the nation's largest privately held providers of information technology, communications and consulting services to companies worldwide, today announced the enhancement of its quality assurance and automated testing services to extend into complex Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) environments. SOA separates functions into distinct units (services), which can be distributed over a network and can be combined and reused to create business applications. Typically, these services communicate with each other by passing data from one service to another, or by coordinating an activity between two or more services. Unlike traditional testing approaches, testing these business processes requires a more comprehensive approach.
"We have developed an entire discipline to support automated testing of SOA-based transactions," said George Horruitiner, Tekmark's practice director for Software Quality Assurance (SQA) & Testing. According to Horruitiner, "The development of secure and reliable SOA environments requires test standards that are controllable across a host of different environments and platforms." Tekmark's approach delivers a quality process with highly automated capabilities to create stub simulation. These stubs emulate the behavior of a production environment, allowing the development organization to test services in the context of an application's actual behavior without impacting the live production system. This saves tremendous time and resources.
Tekmark has been a pioneer in the area of automated testing utilizing the HP (formerly Mercury) suite of software testing tools such as TestDirector for Quality Center. With over two decades of experience delivering testing services to our largest clients within the financial services, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries, Tekmark's services have evolved to support the complete quality process from requirements management through executing tests.
To ensure that services meet all functional and performance objectives and are ready for production, Tekmark utilizes market-leading automated SOA testing products such as HP's Service Test. These automated test tools accelerate enterprise SOA testing by providing visibility into the unique and complex test environments within the context of the architecture in which they reside, promoting developer productivity and enabling quality control.
"With countless testing projects completed and others still underway, Tekmark has the depth and breadth to seamlessly deliver these challenging services," stated Kenneth Smyth, Tekmark's vice president of IT Solutions. "We are pleased to add SOA test automation to our existing SOA enablement offerings which include SOA best practices and governance, and now quality processes required for successful SOA transformation," added Smyth. "Increasingly more of our clients are turning to solutions providers with SOA testing expertise�our clients are often under time pressure to meet business demands and do not have the required skills in-house," said Smyth.
As SOA continues to become an increasingly mainstream approach to enterprise architecture, Tekmark's SQA &Testing practice can support business-critical applications, making it easier for development and quality management groups to support SOA-based applications.
About Tekmark Global Solutions
Tekmark Global Solutions, LLC provides information technology, telecom services, and business solutions to a broad range of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Tekmark's client list is comprised of top companies in the telecommunications, financial services, technology, insurance, health care, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and electronics industries. The company's expertise lies in developing and integrating information systems, operating and improving technology and business processes, and helping clients evolve to the next generation of technologies. As one of the largest privately held information technology companies in the United States, Tekmark provides its clients with information technology and telephony solutions, including staff supplementation, collaborative staffing, and project solutions.
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