LISA Features: CA (Wily) Testing
High performance. High quality. Now Wily Introscope customers can get the best of both worlds in testing - rich performance diagnostics, with complete functional simulation and load testing of every component. Thanks to a strategic partnership between Wily and iTKO, LISA Complete SOA Test Platform can now be offered as an integrated testing solution for Introscope users.
Challenges of Achieving Quality and Performance
Companies strive to deliver SOA or J2EE software that not only performs flawlessly, but meets business requirements as its properties change. In any living SOA business implementation, you will have many discrete "services" that make up an application, so complete end-to-end testing is more important than ever.
- Are you trying to implement better performance testing, but don't know how you can simulate the extreme user traffic conditions that require those performance levels?
- How can you find the root causes of performance bottlenecks, instead of just finding out "there's a problem" somewhere in your SOA stack?
- Do you find your testing produces results that are either too granular (code-level tests) or too high-level (interface only tests) to give you the validation you really need to prove business requirements are being met?
Benefits of Testing with Wily and iTKO
Quality Assurance organizations, and their development counterparts, are held liable for ensuring that applications in production are fully operational to meet business requirements.
Simply put, you need both functional and performance-oriented testing of every element in your SOA to truly deliver with confidence in the real world. Using Wily Introscope and iTKO LISA together, you can effectively create the real world conditions - both in terms of functionality and the sheer volume of transactions needed to drive robust performance testing.
- Problem Resolution - Using LISA and Introscope in conjunction allows you to truly zero in on and solve a problem, wherever it occurs within a complex system. Start with overall average performance and functional tests, then when problems are detected, shift gears between Wily and iTKO to discover why those problems occur at a granular level.
- Real World Performance Conditions - with Introscope and LISA, you aren't just testing an aggregate load of traffic against the front end or UI of your SOA software. LISA becomes your test client, letting you directly exercise each layer of the system. So now you can not only see the results in Wily, you can "cause the cause" with LISA.
- Benchmarking capabilities - Rather than expecting you to find benchmarks based on some abstract values, customize load and traffic, with full functional validation of each user flowing through the system. LISA can adjust user profiles and ratchet up the load, then your team can monitor performance in Wily to calculate the ideal or capacity conditions of any component or server.
Solution Description
Both Wily Introscope and iTKO LISA were built as frameworks that can get a handle into almost any component of an SOA right out of the box. So this makes both solutions even more compelling when used together.
Figure 1. Coverage example. Note how Wily Introscope can dig into the deep performance characteristics of any active component in your SOA, while iTKO LISA offers you the ability to "generate the cause" and test the connections and functional characteristics at both a component and workflow. Through an integrated communication channel, these two solutions provide an unparalleled level of realistic scenario simulation, root cause analysis and performance metrics for enterprise applications.
LISA is the Test Framework, and Wily Introscope is the Performance Framework. iTKO and Wily/CA have partnered to create an unbeatable testing and diagnostics combination for any company that relies on complex SOA business software.
Think of testing with both solutions like being able to adjust both the range and direction of a piece of artillery to zero in on and hit a targeted problem. So while your team uses LISA to run an end-to-end test and simulate the condition, Wily is monitoring the system at a component level, finding exactly where the bottleneck is happening. Then you can deeply test that specific component more with LISA use cases, then get even deeper into the VM to unlock stack issues in Introscope.
Wily for iTKO customers: Teams using LISA will be interested in Wily Introscope because Introscope can monitor and broadcast deep SNMP and performance data directly into LISA's reporting structure. You can pass, fail or help define LISA thresholds and parameters with data from Wily. In addition, you can export active LISA data from staged tests into a Wily performance dashboard if your IT management teams want to see quality and performance data together in that intuitive view.
iTKO For Wily Customers: Wily can check individual components for thresholds or response times. But one of the things you will really appreciate about LISA is the ability to execute realistic test scenarios against those components. LISA events can be reported into Introscope with our extensibility for Wily. With the combination of iTKO and Wily you can tune your systems against any type of functional test or user traffic profile generated by LISA.
Find out more about the combined value of LISA and Wily today.
For more info, call 1-877-BUY-ITKO, or contact the Wily/iTKO partnership sales teams at wily@itko.com.