iTKO LISA for Cordys
Testing, Validation & Virtualization Across the Lifecycle of your Business Processes
If you are striving for improved process efficiency, visibility and control with Cordys solutions for BPM, ensuring quality throughout the lifecycle is a critical requirement. Key customers and partners reward your company based on delivering reliable business outcomes faster, and not necessarily the IT infrastructure used to get there.
This business-oriented approach to IT is why iTKO LISA provides a great fit for Cordys solutions. LISA natively interacts with Cordys processes, as well as directly invoking and verifying policies and outcomes within the complex, heterogeneous technologies and systems of record underneath BPM. LISA enables your team to focus on delivering and validating quality business processes instead of testing and coding - so accuracy and high performance will become the hallmarks of your business.
Ensuring Quailty and Agility for Cordys Customers
One aspect that all BPM adopters share is a need to integrate heterogeneous technology assets - from legacy apps to newer technologies - brought together within a larger business context. Conventional testing methodologies can be both costly, and ineffective in these environments. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to testing and validating business processes are either too focused on underlying technology and code, or only effective for "acceptance" testing of a finished application from the user interface, where variability is extremely high, and problems when found are difficult pinpoint to the root cause.
Why is achieving test automation so critical in Cordys projects?
- High cost and effort of test creation and maintenance. Conventional UI-oriented and unit test coding approaches take a procedural approach that results in brittle tests that are invalidated by dynamic change in the system.
- Lack of complete validation of the business process. Many testing tools oversimplify the approach for messaging and BPM workflow testing to only component testing at a single endpoint or messaging technology type.
- Quality must maintain a business context across multiple layers of the application. In order to validate that a business requirement is met, integration testing must not skip verification of any of the layers in the architecture, whether these layers are newly integrated, or under the authority of a third party.
- Inability to test at every stage of the application lifecycle. Testing as an "acceptance" phase or event prior to deployment can no longer provide sufficient coverage for a constantly changing, heterogeneous application structure. Quality must be a continuous part of design, development, build and deployment in order to ensure trust in the application.
- Constraints due to unavailable or "not yet ready" services and components underneath your BPM rules can limit agility and lengthen delivery times for needed functionality. Virtualization of these components is needed to enable distributed teams to design and deliver functionality in parallel.
Benefits
LISA is the first comprehensive automated testing, validation and virtualization tool built from the ground up for modern applications, including BPM and enabling approaches such as SOA, SaaS and leading ESB and integration platforms. If your integration strategy relies on Cordys solutions, LISA's declarative, no-code testing approach offers a compelling solution for maximizing delivered quality and minimizing business risk.
LISA Features for Cordys Testing & Validation
- Continuous Business Process Validation. Validation is required when your BPM models are based on distributed components or relying on services being built by remote teams. The only way to gain trust that all parties are aligning their components to meet your defined workflows is to continuously validate with LISA.
- Complete Functional Testing and Load & Performance Testing at a component and system-wide level beyond the concept of user interface or "acceptance" testing of business processes. LISA's application testing offers the ability to not only functionally test the RIA UI, but verify the actions and rules applied to the data in underlying layers. LISA's robust Load & Performance testing reuses the tests built in functional testing processes, applying load with the dynamic data and rich scenarios needed to ensure high performance business applications.
- Breadth and Extensibility for Complex, Heterogeneous Environments. LISA's natively invokes and verifies transactions within Cordys SOA Grid, as well as all other leading messaging and SOA frameworks like TIBCO, Software AG/webMethods, SAP, Oracle, SOA Software and IBM MQ, as well as services layers, databases and other systems of record ensuring that service levels are met across technologies. In addition, enterprise applications will always contain some legacy or custom functionality that needs to be tested in order to fully validate a business process. In addition, LISA Extension Kit's integration abilities let developers "test enable" custom software, so developers can make their code testable with LISA's simple extension API.
- A Service Virtualization Environment for simulating the behaviors of dependent services and systems. LISA Virtualize captures and simulates away these constraints, expanding on the value of server virtualization, and is a must when you move from modeling to implementation, and all of the dependent services in your business model are not available or cannot support the throughput required for load testing.
LISA provides teams with a 360-degree view of the quality and reliability of the application, and its underlying implementation layers, throughout its lifecycle at design time, run time, and change time.
To learn more about how LISA incorporates the 4 C's and can address critical development constraints and software reliability challenges in your organization, please contact us, or read more about LISA Virtualize, LISA Validate, LISA Test, and LISA Pathfinder.