IBM acquires SOA testing tool vendor Green Hat
Summary
IBM announced on Wednesday an agreement to acquire Green Hat, a company that makes tools for software testing. The focus of Green Hats tools is on aiding programmers who build service-oriented applications (SOA). One of the technical challenges that arises when developing complex multilayer Web services is ensuring that an individual layer will behave predictably when integrated with the rest of the stack. Green Hats Virtual Integration Environment tool helps by providing virtual test environments that simulate other bits of the stack, including common middleware components and messaging systems that would be used in a production deployment. Testing is a big part of the software development process and its an area where the quality of tools can have an impact on productivity.
