The notion of "service assurance" is a critical factor for achieving Service-Oriented Architecture success, business agility and confidence from service reuse. Achieving service assurance throughout an architecture that has constantly changing elements, which may or may not be under your team’s control, requires continuous quality, validation, visibility and management from design through development, with collaboration across the team at each step.

This resource kit for application architects, developers and testers provides informational materials to help you build, test, deploy and manage high quality Web services, SOAs and composite applications so that business agility, trust and reuse are easily achievable Included in the kit are: