Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step ...

xii
Contents
Governance Technology 158
The Value of Service Governance 160
C HAPTER 9 Testing from SOA to the Clouds 163
Why We Need a New Take on Testing 164
Testing from the Enterprise to the Clouds and Back 165
How Do We Test Architecture 166
Service-Level Testing 167
Security-Level Testing 171
Process-Level Testing 171
Governance-Level Testing 172
Integration-Level Testing 172
Information-Level Testing 172
Creating a Test Plan 173
Black Box Cloud Testing 174
Testing Is Important 177
C HAPTER 10 Defining Candidate Data, Services, and Processes
for the Clouds 179
Where Are the Applications 180
When Cloud Computing Fits 184
When the Processes, Applications, and Data Are Largely
Independent, or Loosely Coupled 186
When the Points of Integration Are Well Defined 187
When a Lower Level of Security Will Work Just Fine 187
When the Core Internal Enterprise Architecture Is Healthy 188
When the Browser Is the Desired User Interface 189
When Money Is Tight 192
When the Applications and/or Services Are New 193
Jumping to the Clouds 194
C HAPTER 11 Making the Move to Cloud Computing 197
Selecting Platforms 198
The Process of Moving to the Clouds 203
List Candidate Platforms 204