iTKO Announces LISA 3.5, the Latest Innovation In SOA Automated Testing and Quality Assurance
LISA Provides Complete, Collaborative and Continuous Testing
DALLAS, TX October 2, 2006 - iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced the availability of the newest release of its flagship product, the LISA 3.5 Complete SOA Test Platform. LISA 3.5 offers complete, collaborative and continuous testing that communicates directly with the business logic within SOA based composite applications. Lisa 3.5 enables entire teams to participate in the delivery of quality business requirements throughout the full SOA application lifecycle.
A key new feature in the release is LISA Continuous Development Testing(tm), which provides live functional testing, simulation and monitoring of all services and of critical business workflows, to ensure true business continuity, in a loosely coupled, continually evolving environment. This marks the first time ever that a SOA product has provided the logical bridge between SOA governance and SOA development processes.
According to Forrester Research, "SOA makes software quality both more important and more difficult to achieve. But traditional approaches to software testing are insufficient in an SOA environment. IT organizations pursuing SOA find that they must rethink their testing methods and revise testing roles and responsibilities."
LISA 3.5 provides testing transparency for the entire SOA architecture as it continually evolves. LISA 3.5 also advances test efficiency and coverage with several key new features that improve the complete and collaborative nature required for successful SOA development and deployment.
Besides correcting mistakes, SOA quality is about avoiding the misunderstandings that can otherwise jeopardize business performance. LISA 3.5 marries the deep testing and analysis functionality that developers need, with the ease of use required to give non-technical users visibility into the development process. Collaboration between all invested parties guarantees the development, testing and deployment of SOAs is aligned with the business goals.
"Ensuring constant functional integrity is key to the success and mass adoption of SOA," said John Michelsen, Chief Scientist, iTKO. "The only way to achieve that integrity is adopt a strategy of testing early in the development cycle all the way through to post-deployment to ensure, as changes are made, the SOA based applications remain functionally intact. Additionally, organizations need to test beyond the component level and delve into the business workflow to ensure that all of the service elements are performing in harmony. LISA 3.5 brings all of those elements together into a single testing platform."
About iTKO
iTKO, Inc. offers the most complete software suite for testing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), allowing multiple business technology layers to be exercised within a single test case. iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous(tm) software quality, from development, to QA and business analysts. iTKO LISA Complete SOA Testing Platform system performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, without requiring test coding or script maintenance, saving up to 80% of the cost of testing over the course of six months. For dynamic web applications, web services, J2EE, .NET, Java objects, JMS/messaging, databases, and many more technologies, LISA provides live interaction with every layer, and gives everyone the "Freedom-to-Test" applications exactly as they will be deployed. Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include Sun, Capgemini, Cardinal Health, AMD, TIBCO and i2.
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iTKO Press Contact: Jason English, VP Corporate Marketing - Jason.English@iTKO.com -- 214-764-9318