Whitepapers & Articles
Read and download the latest free whitepapers and educational material authored by iTKO experts.
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iTKO Whitepaper: "Enterprise IT Performance Management with LISA Virtual Services Environment"  How can we leverage leading Load & Performance testing tools such as Mercury LoadRunner, and Borland SilkPerformer in our test lab, by leveraging Virtualization to give IT a ready test bed at the speed of change in today's business? LISA Virtual Service Environment allows development, testing and performance teams to achieve better service levels, while saving as much as 90% of the cost of replicating each application environment. |
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Article: SOA Interoperability & Structural Policy - A Primer for Ensuring Compliant Enterprise Services While we often talk about the big picture of SOA Governance and Virtualization, let's take a look under the hood at some of the nitty-gritty details of service enablement. Read a recent article from iTKO chief geek John Michelsen on how to test and validate Structural Policy in Services layers. |
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Whitepaper: Service-Oriented Virtualization Is SOV the next wave in virtualization? Learn how Virtual Services will merge the efficiencies of Virtualization, with the agility and cost benefits of SOA. |
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Whitepaper: For SOA, The Future of Quality is Federated In order to achieve results from SOA Governance efforts, you need to establish Trust across distributed groups and systems. Here's how. |
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Whitepaper: Lifecycle Quality: The "Tipping Point" of SOA Governance How can you trust that your business needs are being met by SOA? This whitepaper discusses the fundamental drivers for SOA Governance, and the best practices for achieving SOA with the maximum potential value upside and less business risk, due to SOA Lifecycle Quality. |
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Whitepaper: Business Continuity: The "5 9's" of SOA Quality You reached 99.999% system uptime. What about the functional integrity of your business processes? It's finally within reach. Read John Michelsen's groundbreaking paper on this quality concept. |
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Whitepaper: The "3 C's" of SOA Testing By John Michelsen, Chief Architect and Founder, iTKO, Inc. There are three keys to successfully testing services-based applications. Achieving complete, collaborative and continuous testing means your SOA will meet business needs today and in the future as technologies naturally evolve. |
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Whitepaper: For SOA Software, Quality is In the Field If your company is in the business of creating and implementing software, you might have noticed that initial quality is important during software development, but far more costly and involved during implementation and support cycles - a long tail of uncaptured value from better testing that could persist for years. Hear from iTKO's Jason English on this untapped value and how your field organization can capture its share. |
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Whitepaper: Enabling CMMi Compliance with LISA It takes a great deal of teamwork and discipline to reach new levels. However, CMMi in part demands real test automation that you can employ continuously. Here's why iTKO's LISA can be an ideal part of the solution you're looking for in achieving the next level. |
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Article: Why Unit Testing Alone Fails Yes, unit testing solves problems. Yes, developers should continue to practice it. But is unit testing still a relevant frontier for improving the quality of enterprise applications? Brand me a heretic, but I think it is only solving the small problems. |
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Article: Merging Open Source and Testing Strategies Software quality demands constant test creation. As many stakeholders as possible must be able to build the most comprehensive tests possible. If test creation is too expensive and difficult, you will give up on it. Efficient test creation is the enabler for quality. |
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Article: False Failures: Worse than Real Failures We know you've experienced this. Let's say you just added some new functionality into your software, and you run a new build. And let's say that 50% of your test cases fail. What is the first thing you assume? |
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Article: The iTKO Difference: Test Execution and Quality Strategy Before they get to know us, customers often ask us how we are different from the other testing software vendors out there. There are three big differences you should know about us right up front. |
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Article: SOA Testing Defined This year, Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) will move from the whiteboard to the diving board. Gartner estimates that 60% of enterprise development groups are planning or in the midst of an SOA initiative for 2006, and by 2009, more than 80% of development and integration budgets will be dedicated to applications delivered as an SOA. |
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Article: Does Your Testing Suck? Quality is a mandate. Your business relies on increasingly complex enterprise software, which can never be adequately tested by manual methods. But your testing tools are not keeping up with the demand to prove that your applications will work as they are deployed. |
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Whitepaper: Automated Testing for Enterprise Java If you are developing J2EE applications, you owe your team a look at LISA's extensive capabilities for testing every component of the stack. LISA runs on any client and tests against every major J2EE server in use today, so as you continue to add components, you'll find that LISA stays right there with you. |
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Article: Junit and LISA: A Perfect Match At iTKO, we use JUnit, and LISA fully supports and extends JUnit in many compelling ways. We are glad that the software market is better focused on testing, in part due to JUnit. However, some teams view JUnit as the hammer and every testing need as the proverbial nail. Here are some of our concerns with a unit-testonly strategy. |