LISA Features: SOA Platform Testing
Behind every SOA initiative, there is both an architectural and management challenge of SOA Governance, as well as a deep integration effort. SOA requires a holistic approach to embedding quality throughout the application design, development and delivery lifecycle. iTKO has been busy over the past year providing out-of-the-box integrations with the leading SOA platform and management solutions that are driving the evolution of business software.
SOA Platform Support enhancements include:
- ESB Native Integrations: When you need to test an ESB, you should to be able to test every aspect of your integration layer - and LISA natively tests against every access point of ESB systems in ways that no other solution can, whether those are JMS messages, Web Services running on the bus, or connection databases. LISA provides out-of-the-box support for IBM MQ-Series, TIBCO, webMethods, Oracle FUSION, BEA AquaLogic, Sun JCAPS, Sonic MQ, Fiorano and other leading ESB/integration providers.
- Governance Platform support: LISA tests provide an excellent way to check in SOA Tests as enforceable and verifiable SOA Policy example alongside services in the repository. Leading enterprise and public sector customers are using LISA as a quality certification platform to ensure trust across multiple services, and the divisions and teams that build, support, and leverage them. LISA supports both the process of Publishing services to a larger community with verifiable service levels, as well as Consuming services with well-defined requirements.
- Virtual Endpoint Testing & Lookup: As SOA Governance practices evolve, the Registry/Repository is becoming a system of reference for flexibly building and managing the services that inhabit a loosely coupled environment. LISA interoperates with Type 2 and 3 UDDI registries and service repositories from leading providers such as CentraSite, Infravio, Systinet, BEA/Flashline, and others, providing a way to leverage them for lookup of the most recent services during test design, and dynamic "hookup" of services during test runs through the registry.