Open source projects have a unique benefit with QA. They are subjected to an amazingly high level of quality testing by users and for free. With WSO2 WSF/PHP, one user recently raised an issue with large attachments. It was found that this was a real problem and the user reporting of the problem helped to find a solution.
With Apache Axis2/C, a user had tried to test the generated code with the WSDL2C tool with an engaged module. It was assumed that this would work, and was never tested. But when looked into, at the request of the user, it was found out that this really did not work. And that lead to find a solution.
It is amazing how much users contribute by testing for various use cases. It would be quite difficult for the development team alone to test for all those scenarios.
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