Load testing for Web services also is a focus for the company, which makes software for Web services testing and SOA quality management.

With the planned Test Suites addition to the company's product, users will be able to automate multitudes of tests instead of having to perform them manually, said Jim Murphy, vice president of product management at Mindreef.

"Our customers have been building up these scenarios but now they may have dozens, hundreds, or thousands of these scenarios they've been building up," said Murphy. With Test Suites, users could have multiple, automated tests run every night, he said.

An example of a Web service test scenario would be one that logs into a central authentication service, checks credentials for an order entry system, and then passes this information to order management and inventory management systems.

Featured as part of the Test Suites capability will be an interface to automate the execution of test scenarios. "It's kind of just taking it up a level of abstraction," Murphy said.