LISA for Government - Ensuring Quality in Net-Centric IT Environments

Test, Validate & Virtualize Federated Systems and Shared Services with ITKO LISA solutions.

ITKO LISA is the most complete software certification framework for testing, validating and virtualizing the service components of Net-Centric computing environments. ITKO's mission is to allow all stakeholders and partners involved in government IT to deliver Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous software quality, from development, to QA and process owners. The ITKO LISA solution performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, validation for proper Governance, and virtualizes key components of your architecture, without requiring coding or script maintenance.

With LISA, distributed teams can contribute immediate value, by enabling Policy validation and enforcement for IT Governance efforts, including shared services approaches. Better quality ensures higher levels of Trust that applications will support constituent needs across the full lifecycle of design, change, and runtime processes.

Net-Centric Quality Challenges for Federal Government Customers

Traditionally, functional and load testing was conducted near the end of the development process, when there was a near-finished application with a user interface to test against. While this worked for applications developed within a centrally controlled environment, today's services-based applications contain many distributed middle-tier technologies, legacy systems-of-record; and external services, each of which is changing on their own lifecycle. Government customers face several new challenges presented by Federated applications:

• Incomplete Test Coverage: Traditional testing techniques can test against the UI or a specific technology, but they cannot automate testing across services, components and middleware-based workflows. Test coverage is often measured by the number of manual tests run.
• Unintended Consequences of Change: Individual components and technologies are changing at their own pace, and can create severe issues within business processes. Procedural testing approaches are not flexible or reusable enough to keep up with this rate of change - more test automation is needed.
• Dependency on Constrained Systems: Access and capacity constraints on key systems greatly reduces agility, as many needed technologies and components are unavailable for functional and load testing activities.
• Lack of Needed Control for Governance: Governance or service management techniques are useful for dictating standards and policies, but they also need to validate and enforce that policies meet expectations within the architecture.

Many companies are struggling with production-level defects, SLA issues and late delivery, even after expending significant effort and cost on quality initiatives. ITKO LISA can increase your ROI on these efforts, by allowing your teams to Test, Validate and Virtualize today's Net-Centric architectures within your IT Operations and Governance tools of choice, for a higher level of quality coverage at a lower cost.

LISA supports Federated Computing Environments

LISA was built from the ground up to validate the many middle tiers and systems your testing processes need to touch. In addition, our Virtualization capabilities extend this value beyond the data center by simulating a ready services environment for testing.

Many agencies have built their best practices around Centers of Excellence in the QA department, and in the IT Performance Lab, using leading testing and development management tools. LISA can assist in creating a shared platform for validating and enforcing expected Policies in Net-centric, or service-based software architectures. ITKO LISA has delivered success with many leading Defense and civilian government agencies.

Contact the ITKO Government Solutions Team

We invite you to explore more materials on how ITKO LISA can Test, Validate and Virtualize your SOA applications. If you are interested in reviewing LISA solutions, request an eval today, and contact the ITKO Government Solutions team at government@itko.com.