Chalk Talk
Why we Built LISA (3:11)
iTKO's LISA Product Suite
Removing the constraints to modern application quality and agility
iTKO's LISA was created specifically to overcome the root cause challenges of Modern Application Quality, and provides a comprehensive solution for virtualizing, testing, and validating applications that leverage SOA, BPM, cloud computing, integration suites, and ESBs. LISA is an integrated product suite to provide complete and continuous quality coverage from development to delivery while eliminating costs, constraints and risks throughout the software lifecycle. The LISA suite encompasses three products:
- LISA Virtualize: Eliminate testing constraints by simulating the dynamic behavior, data and performance of unavailable dependent systems that teams must build and test their own software against, enabling concurrent development, faster deployments and lower infrastructure costs.
- LISA Test: An automated end-to-end testing solution that directly verifies heterogeneous technologies across all application tiers with full traceability and transparency in a "no-code" environment, enabling teams to deliver improved quality with greater efficiency.
- LISA Validate: Continuously validate functional and business outcomes across components and business processes, often in conjunction with SOA governance and policy tools, to lower risks, build trust between teams, and improve the reliability of federated systems.
iTKO's LISA 5: A Complete Integrated Solution
The Challenge: Mitigate the cost and risk of delivering modern applications
IT organizations are changing their approach to enterprise applications from large and monolithic, to ones that are more dynamic, distributed, and heterogeneous in nature. This shift toward more complex and changing application architectures along with the popularity of agile development techniques has exposed serious inadequacies with traditional quality management approaches. These traditional methods, based on tools and techniques originally designed for packaged applications and client/server environments, are simply inadequate for the quality needs of modern applications. Some of the key challenges that need to be addressed include:
- Access and availability constraints on dependent systems
- Complex and costly test data management
- Lack of transparency across heterogeneous technologies and tiers
- Inadequate automated test coverage
- Poor collaboration across teams that are becoming smaller and more distributed
- Application architectures that are continuously changing
Solution: The 4C's Approach to Quality and Agility
iTKO has developed an approach called the 4 C's to address several of the root cause challenges in modern application quality today:
- Constraint virtualization - to enable teams to work in parallel by eliminating system dependencies and data volatility due to limited access to needed systems.
- Complete test coverage - including full transparency across every tier and heterogeneous technology in the architecture.
- Collaborative quality between all stakeholders - including streamlined defect discovery and resolution, and use of extensible and reusable test assets.
- Continuous validation of underlying components - to ensure that business requirements continue to be met as the system dynamically changes.
Learn more about how LISA incorporates the 4 C's and can address critical quality management challenges in your organization: