New Integration Testing Solutions Added to iTKO LISA SOA Testing
ESB and Integration Backbone Testing Streamlined with Pre-Configured Test Suites and Services
Dallas, TX, September 27, 2007 - iTKO, Inc., a leading provider of testing solutions for integration and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, announces enhanced native Integration Testing capabilities, ensuring end-to-end quality for integration backbone providers, including IBM MQ-Series, TIBCO, webMethods, Oracle FUSION, Sun JCAPS, Sonic MQ and other leading providers.
"The first companies to understand and extend their platform capabilities to support SOA were the major integration vendors. Therefore, many customers justifiably think that SOA is really about integration, and a reflection of the desire for better reusability and interoperability," said Chris Kraus, LISA product manager, iTKO. "With standards like WSDL and JMS becoming more pervasive, many SOA architectures are based on platform-specific implementations of message buses, transformation engines, and business process management."
LISA not only tests standards like SOAP and JMS, but provides native validation capabilities for products like TIBCO ActiveMatrix and BusinessWorks, webMethods Broker and Integration Server, and many other leading integration and SOA platforms. The ability to test previously written integrations, along with the newer services written atop the platform, provides better unit, functional, load, and end-to-end test coverage.
"Many of our customers still need to do automated functional testing of specific integrations, along with testing end-to-end business processes." said Kraus. "More importantly, they are interested in doing large scale load tests to exercise their new SOA applications, and continuously test the third party services they rely on."
With the increasing complexity and interconnectedness of integrations and composite applications based on these platforms, manual testing of User Interfaces (UIs) can no longer ensure quality. The ability to test the UI, integration interfaces and services needs to be done in a highly automated manner, while validating the underlying processes and systems of record.
The increased breadth and depth of integration testing in LISA, along with iTKO methodologies and test assets for specific platforms, gives customers better risk management of their software delivery life cycle, along with ensured reliability of their implementations long term. LISA provides for complete, collaborative and continuous testing of shared deployments can that span multiple divisions and business partners.
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