At design-time, for example, service-oriented business integration activities are pursued to
enable alignment between business and IT organizations. Integration should also be conducted
during service construction to ???glue??? various developed components and package them for delivery
to the operations group. At run-time, during deployment to production, services should be
integrated again with their environment to enable proper message and information exchange as
well as collaboration and coexistence with corresponding consumers and peer services.
Continuous Testing and Certification Discipline. The same questions can be applied to the
testing and certification disciplines. Why wait until the last moment? Would you not want to
know the quality level of your services before you ferry them out to production? Why not certify
services in advance to avoid delays in deployment? Service life cycles provide ample opportunities
to test and qualify services. In the design-time season, we build prototypes, construct actual
solution services, and integrate them in our development environments. At the run-time season,
we deploy and integrate services and third-party products, configure our infrastructure, and test our
middleware. All these activities require testing, qualification, and certification to ensure seamless
execution of our production environments. Thus, continuous testing and certification efforts can
assure reduction in time to market and facilitate business continuity throughout service life cycles.
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