SOA Quality: Conducting Error Forensics across the Services Architecture 

John Choate, Director, Consulting Services

Wednesday March 4, 2009

Networking Dinner @ 5:45; Chapter Business @ 6:45; Program @ 7:00 PM

In the South Multimedia Conference Room 1E:

 at Countrywide, Building 2, 29851 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, CA 91302

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been discussed as an important architectural style for the last few years. Organizations have started to develop service-oriented solutions and many are now leveraging services in their production environments.

SOA introduces new technical complexities and challenges and makes testing a critical component of the development lifecycle. Teams need to think about:

• How do we conduct error forensics across the Services Architecture to isolate error origination points
• How do you know if the solution is ready?
• How do you know that it will scale to accommodate future needs?

Using Hitachi Consulting's experience over the last 4-5 years in SOA, we have considerations that can augment the SOA testing approaches you currently have underway.

John Choate is a Director of Consulting Services in the Los Angeles office of Hitachi Consulting, specializing in project management and software development lifecycle methodology for large-scale, multi-million dollar development efforts.

Mr. Choate is accomplished in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) as the base methodology for custom application development. He has applied the Unified Process while leading technical aspects of project development in the areas of business process analysis and improvement, requirements definition, database design, object oriented applications development, testing, implementation and training. This experience also includes developing or extending PMO processes and integrating iterative development with traditional, PMI-based project management methodologies. Mr. Choate has managed these efforts in industries such as life sciences, automotive, aerospace and defense, biotechnology, health care, insurance, and general accounting.

Mr. Choate has over 15 years of professional computer experience and has been working to deliver mission-critical business solutions at the enterprise level since 1993. Mr. Choate provides strategic and tactical experience relevant to the practical application of project management and development methodology.