LISA for Progress/Sonic Solutions

Complete test creation, validation and virtualization tools for Progress-based enterprise applications

The Sonic ESB platform from Progress allows enterprises to implement their business processes in a service-oriented way. It provides various ways to connect, mediate, transform and route services seamlessly. It is a development platform for enterprises seeking the highest levels of performance, security, scalability and reliability for mission-critical, high volume business workflows.

As integration and SOA platforms like Sonic have become the technical backbone of leading enterprises, development teams have looked for ways to ensure greater levels of quality in all of the distributed layers of their applications. The advent of good unit testing practices (with JUnit) and better monitoring of system performance (with a variety of tools) has become par for the course in enterprise Java development.

However, in order to really exercise these complex applications, we need to stop writing code to test code. We need to test the business functionality that affects reliability and performance for the end user. We need to prove that the entire distributed Sonic based application will work, and meet the business requirements exactly as it is deployed. LISA was built from the ground up for this purpose.

Features

• No-code testing. You'll never write a test client or maintain fragile test scripts again. Break the code-compile-run-curse cycle. With LISA, you can execute against live Web Services, Sonic Message Queues and other components, while you're authoring tests, for an incredible boost to iterative development. You will have to see it to believe the level of live interaction and information developers and QA teams get while you are developing with LISA.
• Built for Sonic standards. LISA is pure Java, and is innately aware of Java objects, EJBs, RMI, JMS queues (JNDI), JDBC databases, web services and JMX metrics. Support business context and workflows established in Sonic, across the entire app lifecycle and technology stack. Interact with Sonic ESB using Sonic MQ or Web Services. Intercept messages and implement real business workflows. As you should expect, LISA runs on any Java-ready client (Unix/Linux, Win, OSX) and can easily test any Java-compliant server. Specific metrics and test settings for Sonic MQ, ESB, databases and more come standard.
• Freedom to test. LISA is a unified solution from iTKO, and not a patchwork of acquired testing tools. Your LISA license allows you to test as many of the above object types as you like, on as many target servers as you like, without per-server, per-technology costs that take away your incentive to test continuously.
• Multiple systems. One LISA test case can follow a complex workflow and validate multiple web sites, web services, Java objects and application servers. LISA supports active sessions, SSL, authentication and magic strings, so it lets you test systems just as your end users will. On the back end, LISA provides live interaction and deep testing of any component or service you can access over the Internet. Also by interoperating with Progress Actional or other SOA management applications, LISA can provide richer functional and performance metrics, as well as binding to dynamic endpoints called for by Actional.
• Across the full development lifecycle. Directly invoke and automate testing of Sonic MQ, web sites, web services, databases, and more. Then roll those same unit and functional tests into regression tests included in your Ant/Make builds. Then take those same test cases and turn them into load and stress tests that can run continuously from LISA Server.
• Continuous Validation Service. LISA orchestrates test suites against your entire SOA, so as the heterogeneous Services and their implementation layers evolve, your testing ensures that the application will meet business requirements. LISA's continuous testing capabilities provide the confidence to support mission-critical business applications in an evolving application model