iTKO LISA 3 Supports SOAP 1.2 Protocols within a Complete SOA Testing Platform
DALLAS, Texas - June 26, 2006 - iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announces new features for complete Web Services testing within its flagship iTKO LISA 3 Complete SOA Test Platform software.
"Web Services is a key technology for building an SOA out of the heterogeneous technologies we encounter at most companies, and as such it is critical to an overall test strategy," said iTKO Chief Architect John Michelsen. "SOAP 1.2 greatly expands the promise of interoperability between heterogeneous services, and iTKO fully supports the enhancements available in this new industry-supported protocol."
The new features are being included as part of the General Availability release of LISA 3, giving the testing software automatic support for all the primary elements of the SOAP 1.2 protocol, whether the Web Services are delivered on the Axis/Apache open source platform, on Microsoft .NET, or other commonly used platforms.
LISA now includes support for most Web Services standards commonly encountered within SOA applications:
- WS-Addressing, WS-I, WS-Security and other protocols
- WSDL 2.0 discovery and interoperability
- SOAP 1.2 over HTTP, HTTPs and JMS
- Custom SOAP
- HTTP Headers
"Web Services give companies more flexibility in how they encapsulate existing components and deploy business functionality," said Michelsen. "However, the unintended consequence of this simplification is that the 'wrapper' that makes integration easier can hide the details needed to discover and resolve issues. LISA gives teams back that visibility. Furthermore, the highest value root cause analysis is achieved by being able to test not just Web Services, but the entire mix of technologies that make up an SOA composite application. LISA does SOAP, and a whole lot more."
iTKO's LISA 3 release includes several significant component and system testing capabilities, including functional and load test suite management, native support for messaging protocols, and an improved workflow process so non-developers can easily learn and test every layer of an SOA application.
"iTKO continuously strives to keep all our technology support up to date with the latest standards," said Ruston Vickers, CTO of iTKO. "We have support for the latest releases of Web Services, EJBs, JMS, MQ, and other data and transactional systems. We can test functionality, security and performance for each technology individually, and as they are strung together in composite workflows."
About iTKO
iTKO Inc., delivers solutions that increase software quality while reducing business risk. The Dallas-based company's software ensures that every layer of business software, including Web sites, web services, databases, middleware and Java applications continually perform and meet requirements. iTKO's LISA 3 Complete SOA Testing Platform automates functional, regression and load test creation and execution, requiring no coding to deeply test Web sites and back-end systems. In addition, iTKO's easy-to-use tools can be leveraged by the business team, development team and quality assurance team, enabling the entire organization to "own" quality. Founded as an enterprise software development group in 1999, the privately held company serves a variety of clients that need to ensure software quality at high transaction volume, including Sun Microsystems, EMC, AMD, Capgemini and TIBCO Software.
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