Chapter 17, Handling Service Transactions, ended with an untested receipt of over-the-wire CRUD operations being implemented for the data objects, originating with the Artisan and Central Office applications. Since proving (and demonstrating) these capabilities is going to be needed for both quality assurance and story approval purposes, and since there was no structured or useful repeatable testing of that code, in this chapter, we will take a detailed look at the following topics:

• Identifying and dealing with the challenges of testing service applications
• What is involved in packaging and deploying the service
• An approach for demonstrating the service's functionality

Additionally, since the functional development of hms_sys is very nearly complete, some thoughts and examinations of what's still remaining to be done in hms_sys for it to be useful to end users, and some possible future enhancements to it, will be undertaken.