iTKO Sponsors Aberdeen Research Report on SOA and Web Services Testing
Fact-based Survey Revealing Maturity Levels of SOA Quality Management Available at http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410567&cid=4117
Dallas, TX, August 31, 2007 - iTKO, Inc., a leading provider of testing solutions for integration and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced the availability of a co-sponsored Aberdeen Group Research report titled, "SOA and Web Services Testing: How Different Can It Be?" The research notes that it is necessary for companies who implement a Service Oriented Architecture to take a much more advanced approach to their testing and quality assurance strategy.
Aberdeen's research method breaks organizations into three categories â Best-in-Class, Industry Average and Laggard. The key to gaining value from this report is to move organizations along the maturity path to Best-in-Class for SOA Testing, which typically includes companies that:
- Track business requirements throughout the project lifecycle
- Use design-time governance as a way to establish a culture of quality
- Have deployed automated testing tools for functional tests
- Measure quality in all phases of the project, not just in QA
These companies also recognize that quality is not done at the end of the product lifecycle, but as a horizontal attribute that spans multiple business process.
"Many companies think that an SOA cannot be properly tested," said Perry Donham, Aberdeen's director of enterprise application research, and report author. "But we found that there are many companies who have successfully migrated their testing strategy of yesteryear, to that of a multi-faceted approach involving people, process and technology. These Best-in-Class organizations have reported an increase in overall software quality with fewer defects, reduced time to repair and can better maintain deployed services."
The research, based on a survey of more than 240 end-user organizations, provides readers with in-depth survey results and notes multiple real-world examples. This report is valued at US$399; however, for a limited time a complimentary copy of the report, underwritten by iTKO, is available by following this link: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410567&cid=4117
"SOA testing research like this is a benchmark for the maturity of SOA testing as a key part of the entire software lifecycle," said Jim MacKay, chief marketing officer, iTKO, Inc. "That is why we thought participation in this survey was important â not only to our customers, but to any organization considering how to align their efforts beyond Web Services and UI testing alone, toward complete lifecycle testing as a part of SOA governance."
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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