Currently offshore teams may not have access to various webservice endpoints (URLs) in various environments. Thus we may not be able to use them effectively during end-to-end testing.
If we can introduce ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) SOA pattern in its basic form i.e, mediation/redirection, there is a scope for saving lot of time and $$K.
Assume that a dumb ESB server some URLs like the ones given below for address validation and redirect those URLs to actual URLs provided by the service-provider application.
Offshore team can be setup to access the below URLs and forever they have the ability to call the services provided by the above systems. All that they need is to configure their desktop / local-UNIX server environment with the below standard URLs.
http://dev-d1.soa-comp1.com/esb/addressvalidation
http://dev-d2.soa-comp1.com/esb/addressvalidation
http://test-t1.soa-comp1.com/esb/addressvalidation
http://test-t2.soa-comp1.com/esb/addressvalidation
http://prod.soa-comp1.com/esb/addressvalidation
What do you think?
