Insurance sectors opt to shift to SOA applications for the benefits it offers, good news indeed. These significant benefits could be hugely advantageous when organizations identify and mitigate risks. This involves failsafe quality assurance and testing procedures around the architecture. This will minimize the number of defects that could have significant impact on the bottom line. As testing becomes more intricate with SOA, organizations must rethink their testing methods, and revise the testing roles and responsibilities.

Cloud computing, though is a viable alternative, firms get skeptic when security, reliability and manageability come into the picture. Hence a rigorous testing is mandated. So testers hone your skills, cause Gartner predicts that by 2012 80% of fortune 1000 enterprises will pay for some cloud computing service, while 30% of them will pay for cloud computing infrastructure.