Software works the way it was designed because of a group of downtrodden, undervalued and unsung heroes. Often dismissively described as testers, these champions of precision can be more accurately termed Quality Assurance. They set the bar high and work hard to ensure that the softw...

Web services are gaining acceptance as the prime technology used to interconnect disparate applications and ease interoperability between heterogeneous and autonomous systems both for internal and external integration. The variation of contexts in which shared Web services could be use...