Frank Cohen

Frank Cohen's Blog My blog entry elicited a response from Jason at ZapThink. He asked – more or less - what he doesn't get? I also received a request to help parse part of the blog. My blog shows that I'm bothered by two things: using the word Divorce when talking about SOA and Web Services and iTKO's skeptical position on why they give away Lisa Web Services. Jason E's blog entry says: "Yes, [iTKO Lisa Web Services] can be useful, but we honestly believe that Web Services testing on its own will never deliver the quality levels required to achieve Trust in your SOA applications." Perhaps I'm taking this the wrong way but I read that as... We will give you a partial solution for free and wait for you to fail because the real solution - the SOA one - costs $$$. There is a skepticism there that is wholly inappropriate for where we are in the growth of the IT indu... (more)

AJAX, Web 2.0, and TestMaker

Frank Cohen's Blog PushToTest TestMaker provides three ways to create a unit test that may be then run as a functional test, load and scalability test, and service monitor: Use TestGen4Web to record a Web application Use the Network Proxy Recorder to watch a browser interact with the host Write a unit test using one of the many supported languages The TestGen4Web utility does not support Web 2.0 and AJAX very well. It does not model the operations in a JavaScript that may include making asynchronous calls to the back-end. We recommend using TestMaker's scripting support to test A... (more)

Back by Popular Demand, AJAX Bootcamp in Santa Clara, California!

Frank Cohen's Blog I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the SOA World conference. I am very impressed with TIBCO GI and Sun jMaki -Frank SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), ... (more)

Envision a World Where SOA, AJAX, Web Services and Web 2.0 are Completely Blurred

Frank Cohen's Blog Anil Gupta is planning to write a book on SOA test methodology. He recently asked for feedback on the subject areas and he asked for pointers to blogs and resources that discuss SOA testing. Here I what I wrote in response to his question: Dear Anil: I'm glad to see you are planning to write a book on SOA test methodology. One is needed very much within the test community. By the time the book is released I envision a world where SOA, Ajax, Web Services and Web 2.0 are completely blurred. So I would recommend that your book cover methodologies for each. The big... (more)

Ubuntu 1, Windows 0

Frank Cohen's Blog PushToTest is setting up a new test lab to check builds of TestMaker. We bought Toshiba Satellite (A216) laptops for the lab. We tried installing Windows XP over the pre-installed Windows Vista. Toshiba does not provide XP device drivers for the laptop and they actively discouraged me in doing so in a support call. In the end I found no way to get the network adaptor to function under Windows XP and had to reinstall Vista. This made me wonder how much work is involved in producing XP drivers for a laptop? I installed Ubuntu on the Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu instal... (more)