Compliance of SOAP/XML standards does not release from extensive testing
Tue, July 14, 3:15pm – 3:45pm
First Name: Holger
Last Name: Guhl

Type: Talk

Abstract: GLOBALFOUNDRIES has decided to move their Equipment Interface (EI) software from Cincom VisualWorks 7.5 to 7.10 to stay on a supported version. VisualWorks 7.10 contains major harmonization to SOAP/XML standards which is appreciated in general.
With the talk on the International Smalltalk Joint Conference we want to report about our experiences and difficulties with evaluating and testing SOAP/XML interface changes raised by the VisualWorks migration in a highly complex system environment that extensively uses SOAP/XML communication.
We want to show that the compliance to SOAP/XML standards is important but does not release from extensive testing. The policy to use standard SOAP/XML does not ensure that every application implements correctly and fully compliant with the standards.
In the end the usage of SOAP/XML standard ensures the manageability of a complex environment but is no instrument to reduce testing effort.

Bio: Holger Guhl is with Georg Heeg e.K. since 1993. He is Senior Consultant and Certified Scrum Master, and has been on development and consulting projects since 1995. During long time partnership he was part of the development team at GLOBALFOUNDRIES (former AMD). A significant work field was the adoption and maintenance of SOAP/XML features. GLOBALFOUNDRIES has decided to move their Equipment Interface (EI) software from Cincom VisualWorks 7.5 to 7.10, and again
Holger joined the team.

Slides: see Compliance of SOAPXML standards.pdf
Video: Missing