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Who's Responsible for SOA Quality in a Service-Oriented Architecture?

Impact and trust

Service-oriented architectures are much different than our traditional siloed applications. SOAs span multiple tiers and multiple applications, their development lifecycles are multi-staged and highly iterative, and there are multiple parties impacted by both internal and perhaps external changes to the organization.

Delivering a secure, reliable, compliant SOA, given these complexities, requires a different approach to quality. In a complex system, quality measures must permeate every aspect to translate into a quality deliverable.

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Wayne Ariola, vice president of strategy at Parasoft, oversees the company's business development team. He has the responsibility for growing the company's revenue and customer base through channel sales strategies. Wayne has more than 12 years of strategic consulting experience within the high technology and software development industries. He has a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a MBA from Indiana University.

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