Application quality is fast becoming the primary governor for achieving companywide SOA success and deployment. With so many interconnected parts making up applications that can be delivered virtually anywhere, testing no longer becomes a mere matter of finding bugs within the developer's code or problems that occur on a given user interface. Software quality processes must evolve with the architecture to genuinely test a business process and maintain context across the entire workflow.
There are still many differing opinions and concepts on what constitutes an effective test strategy for all of the distributed components that make up SOA applications.
