IBM Promises to Keep Green Hat's Platform Support Open

For several years, a company called Green Hat has been in the business of creating sophisticated software testing equipment for developers, particularly for service-oriented applications that use messaging queues. The problem with distributed application testing is that it's getting more and more complicated, especially as a multitude of new and independently evolving frameworks introduce dependencies that can't always be accurately simulated in a test environment.

More recently, although, Green Hat has been working toward weaning GH Tester from the use of stubs, and toward a more sophisticated system of virtualized applications it calls GH Virtual Integration Environment. To put it more exactly than a stub, VIE generates a component that actually is an application, responding more logically and believably to a component's request using logic that's adaptable to a variety of test scenarios.

The VIE scenario testing in the cloud

IBM is now calling the VIE scenario "testing in the cloud." For the time being, Green Hat may not technically be "as-a-service," although it's conceivable that as its portfolio is integrated into IBM Rational, VIE functionality could be offered at some point henceforth through a cloud portal.

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