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Michelsen, chief scientist and co-founder of SOA testing software provider iTKO in Dallas, weighed in with other industry experts on what SOA testers should watch out for. </DIV><BR /><DIV> Unintended consequences, he said, result from failing to test the dependencies in a SOA application. 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