Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises significant benefits to today's organizations. Successfully delivering SOA benefits, especially Business Agility and Component Reuse, will be dependant on the Test Approach that your organization adopts to implement your SOA.

This white paper will provide a comprehensive guidance on best practices for testing SOA Solutions. This document includes a review of the following topics that will need to be addressed to ensure a successful SOA implementation:

1. Why more testing effort will be required at the service level and not at the system level
2. Why Security testing moves from an end of project activity to one that spans the entire project life cycle
3. A SOA Test team will not only require a detailed technical understanding of your SOA, but they must be experts of domains within your business
4. A SOA Test Approach demands an appropriate tool strategy