The world's first test automation product to combine both BPM and SOA validation has been announced today by a leading provider of automated testing solutions, Green Hat. Including exception handling and manual processes, Green Hat, with the addition of BPM capabilities, now offers customers a way to test all aspects of their SOA projects.

Green Hat's President and CTO commenting on the new release, Peter Cole, declared: "Some of the world's largest organisations are using BPM in conjunction with SOA to deliver maximum business value. Until recently, automation of BPM testing has always been a stumbling block. GH Tester now extends the agility, quality and cost-savings benefits Green Hat's customers have been enjoying on their SOA-only projects to those encompassing BPM too. This ensures they extract maximum business value from their BPM deployment."

Green Hat's BPM support has been developed in conjunction with an emerging market-leader in the European BPM services sector, 1st Thought. TIBCO's iProcess is the first BPM platform to be supported.

"We are delighted to be partnering with Green Hat to bring BPM capability to the GH Tester product. The ability that GH Tester now provides to drive the testing of a process end to end is genuinely ground breaking and we believe affords huge scope to drive down delivery costs for BPM projects. We are looking forward to leveraging the significant benefits of this technology with our customer base," commented CEO 1st Thought, Nigel Winship.