V. Niranjan

The open source initiatives have transformed the technical landscape by leaps and bounds in the past two decades. It has gone a long way toward breaking the stranglehold of monopolistic software companies over technologies. When programmers have the ability to read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves faster and better. It happens at a speed that is way faster compared to the slow pace of conventional software development. Web Services and Open Source Today there is a glut of choices for developers of software. The choices extend from choosing operating systems to application development framework components. The business enterprises are now harnessing the power of open source by using ready-made open source components and frameworks. This helps the enterprises save on development costs and also cut down on project ... (more)

Testing the "REST"

Software testing is almost the "last line of defense" in the software lifecycle between the software vendor and the customer. Testing is the phase that completely validates your architecture, design, and development. If not done properly, testing can carry bugs that can directly impact an organization's revenue. So huge stakes hinge on this part of the lifecycle. Web Services have now become a mainstream technology, and are steadily reaching maturity as a technology. The proliferation of Web Service technologies can be gauged from the amount of commercial and enterprise implemen... (more)