iTKO's LISA WS-TestingTM Surpasses 5000th Download And Paves The Way For Continued SOA Testing Progress
5000 Registered Downloads in less than Six Months Demonstrates Value of Free Web Services Testing Solution from SOA Testing Leader
Dallas, TX, March 20 2007 - iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete automated testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced it has passed the 5000th free download of its LISA WS-Testing tool, the fastest-growing Web Services testing solution on the market. Based on the success of reaching this wide adoption level in less than six months, iTKO will indefinitely offer the testing solution for free to anyone who wishes to download it.
Initially released in October 2006, LISA WS-Testing is a no-code Web Services test authoring and execution solution that developers and business teams can use to test Web services deployments. The solution supports all current "WS-*" compliance protocols, as well as building and launching unit, functional and regression tests against current WSDL and SOAP objects. The free version is full-featured enterprise ready testing software, with no time-limited evaluation or functional restrictions.LISA WS-Testing contains the Web Services testing features included in a single user edition of iTKO's flagship LISA Complete SOA Framework. Updates to the product will be available to all licensees for a year after download.
"iTKO has had a great deal of success in evangelizing the adoption of SOA Testing as a criticial component of SOA Governance," said Jim Mackay, chief marketing officer, iTKO, Inc. "To effectively govern IT and software assets, enterprises must have testing that completely covers all SOA technologies, from the UI to the implementation and database layer, and not just WSDL/SOAP testing of XML. That is why LISA-WS was released as a free commercial product, not trial-ware or an open source utility. It meets and in many cases exceeds the value of other commercially available âWS-only' products."
One early adopter noted, "I've been searching for a product to test my web services. There are a few products out there that claim to do this well. LISA is the only product that has all of the capabilities I need. iTKO has provided me excellent service through their web forums, and the best part about all of this is that it's free."
"We're thrilled that LISA WS-Testing has taken off the way it has, and in such a short period of time," said iTKO's Mackay "Web Services testing is important, but it is more important to recognize that the business logic resides in deeper implementation layers. LISA WS-Testing has allowed more than 5,000 users to quickly gain value from having more robust web services, while also opening the door to complete testing of that business logic."
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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