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• Microsoft’s Web Services Development Kit (WSDK) brings to the table infrastructure protocols with standards to solve Web services problems such as security and scalability
• This book will be the first available on this new development tool
• The author is a member of a select group that Microsoft has brought in to work directly with the development team for the WSDK
• Global XML Web Services Architecture is the new set of standards for XML Web services established by several companies including Microsoft and Sun Microsystems-WSDK makes working with these standards easier
• Companion Web site includes sample code and updates, including coverage of new tools as they are released

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Citation Details
Title: Thomson group announces web resource enhancements.(Computer Hardware & Software)
Author: Hope Molinaro
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 59 Issue: 9 Page: 46(1)

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This title provides a focused view of testing Web applications and the impact it has on the success of Web sites. Focusing exclusively on software testing in a Web environment and integrating tools and techniques needed to smoothly implement a testing plan it should be a working resource for every Webmaster. Readers will learn the technical aspects of developing and testing code, plus how to manage it and plan follow-up enhancements. Specific topics include: Web testing processes and methodologies; Web site and risk management; how to test in different languages and databases, and running tests and analysing results.
Customer Review: One of the worst books I’ve ever read!!
The book is not organized at all. Headings and sub-headings are not structured either so you can’t understand what are you reading exactly. Examples are rarely introduced and it is very easy to lose focus while reading. I don’t recommend this book at all and indeed it needs a quick major revision.
Customer Review: obsolete and dangerously misleading
I tried real hard to find something to like about this book. I was disappointed. Testing of web sites and web applications is an area which desperately needs some good books, but this is not one of them.

The author seems to have cobbled this book together from some old course notes, inserted the word “web” here and there and put some obviously obsolete material in the past tense. It baldly assumes a heavyweight and ill-considered development process, and makes unsubstantiated statements about an unrepresentative selection of software packages. Automated testing is mentioned only in passing, between superficial descriptions of project- and risk- management. Virtually no mention is made of the things which make web applications hard to test – browser differences, massive concurrency, stateless protocols, network issues …

It lacks the depth for a developer or tester, but I can’t even recommend this book as a management overview – so much of the content is either dangerously misleading, obsolete, or just plain wrong. Buy Now!