With the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), organizations will see an increase in business flexibility, but they will also see an increase in component reuse. Services will change and new services will be added on a much more frequent basis than with today's vertical application stacks. With this increase in modularity and change, delivery teams will need to focus on end-to-end quality management to be successful. They will need to ensure functionality and performance at both the individual service and composite application levels, and they will need to be able to govern the distributed assets effectively, even after deployment.
IBM Rational quality management tools for SOA testing enable delivery teams to help ensure that their SOA applications and Web services have the functionality, interoperability and performance they need, when they need it.
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