iTKO LISA 3.6 "On the Bus" With Native Testing of All Major ESB/JMS Standards

Business Wire, May 1, 2007

SOA Testing Leader Announces Native Test Integration to Enterprise Message Buses, including webMethods, TIBCO, BEA, IBM WebSphere, Sun JMS, and others

DALLAS -- iTKO, Inc., the leading provider of complete automated testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced that its LISA SOA Testing Framework natively supports testing of most major ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) messaging platforms. The announcement comes as a result of partnerships with leading ESB vendors, as well as successful customer engagements in testing a variety of messaging layers within SOA applications.

"iTKO LISA has supported the testing of most forms of JMS-based messaging layers and connection protocols for years," said John Michelsen, founder and chief architect, iTKO. "However, given a current trend toward using the ESB as a key integration point for SOA, we believe it is crucial for enterprises to get a head start on establishing early and continuous testing practices at this layer. Our partnerships and proven integrations for our customers show that LISA can provide solutions for testing of the leading ESB provider environments out of the box."

Some of the features of the LISA Enterprise SOA Testing suite, and the specialized LISA ESB Testing solution include:

* Native, customer-proven support for most major ESB platforms, including webMethods Fabric, TIBCO Rendezvous, Sun JMS MQ, BEA WebLogicMQ , IBM MQseries, JbossMQ, Sonic ESB, OpenJMS and other JMS-compliant ESBs.

* Live interaction with the ESB for unit, functional, regression, integration, performance and load testing with high reusability and load levels

* Synchronous and asynchronous testing across the ESB, with messaging publish and subscribe functionality to simulate any expected transaction timing or usage profile from either end

* Continuous integration and build testing

* Code-free JMS analysis, test case design and maintenance, with no need to build custom test clients or libraries to start testing

* Continuation of the test context to include other heterogeneous technology layers of SOA applications, from the web UI to WSDL/SOAP services, Java objects and EJB servers, databases, and more.

* Powerful LISA Extensibility Kit support for fast "test harness" to proprietary or customized ESB implementations

"ESBs are important technology for many SOAs, and thus you need to make sure they are tested from head to foot," said SOA expert and enterprise integration consultant David Linthicum. "You need to consider both stability and performance, from consumption of information at the source system, to the production of information at the target. SOA quality assurance pays for itself quickly."

Any enterprise SOA naturally consists of several heterogeneous technologies. As part of the continuous integration and implementation process, SOA applications need to be tested at every layer - not only ESB, but J2EE servers, Web Services (Java and .NET), CORBA, Databases, HTTP and Swing Web interfaces, Java objects, and more. Unlike point testing solutions that specialize at testing at a single layer or a specific vendor technology, LISA was built from the ground up to test the many heterogeneous components and workflows comprising SOA based applications.

About iTKO

iTKO, Inc. offers the most complete software framework for testing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications, allowing multiple business technology layers to be exercised within a single test case. iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous[TM] software quality, from development, to QA and business analysts. iTKO LISA Complete SOA Testing Framework performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, without requiring test coding or script maintenance, saving up to 80% of the cost of testing over the course of six months. For dynamic web applications, web services, J2EE, .NET, Java objects, JMS/messaging, databases, and many more technologies, LISA provides live interaction with every layer, and gives everyone the "Freedom-to-Test" applications exactly as they will be deployed. Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include Citigroup, Capgemini, Cardinal Health, AMD and i2.

http://www.itko.com