SOA is an architectural paradigm which helps organizations to transform themselves into more flexible entities. Key issues of applications built using SOA are testing these applications and delivering them within expected QoS. Any organization that aims to achieve a high degree of quality in their SOA application is likely to face many challenges.

This paper describes an approach to meet the challenges in testing SOA based applications. The main focus would be on the testing approach of SOA security aspects such as WS-Security, SAML, WS-Trust, WSSecureConversation and WSSecurityPolicy. This solution helps in writing customized Test Assertion Documents based on the specifications provided by OASIS group and parsing these documents with respect to the SOAP messages captured at various levels of interfaces.

Uday Kumar has three and half years of experience in IT and Software Quality Assurance. He is currently working as a senior software engineer in the software quality assurance division of AppLabs. Manual testing and automation testing in various domains is his forte. He is currently pursuing Post Graduate Diploma in M.Tech from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad and is a Graduate Engineer in Computer Science Engineering from JNTU.