iTKO LISA Journal

Selenium is a free Web Application Testing System. It gained lots of popularity since it is available. It’s integration to FireFox – which allows instant record/replay as well as the scripting option - makes it a great tool for functional web testing. BrowserMob on the other side leverages Selenium by providing an automated load-testing environment for Selenium scripts all configurable online via a Web Dashboard. Tagging Web Requests In my recent blog post – Get more out of functional web testing: How to correlate test reports with server side log information? – I discussed the problem that testing results are usually not linked to the log and diagnostics information captured by the application under test. The blog entry offered a way to link the two sides using HTTP Tagging via an HTTP Proxy. Tagging individual Web Requests allows linking each individual request ... (more)

SOA World Product Review: iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing

Testing is a first-order constituent of SOA governance. Assuring that services and service infrastructure components meet functional and technical requirements across lifecycle stages and environments, including production, is an architectural precept in SOA. Gone are the days when testing was an isolated hop in the old disjointed SDLC. You know the one I'm talking about - an architect would design a component, hand it to developers to develop and they would hand it to testers to test, and testers, in turn, who would hand it to system administrators to operate. The components we... (more)

HP’s Got a New Girlfriend Called LISA

iTKO says HP is going to resell its LISA Virtualize software combined with HP's quality management, functional and performance testing solutions. It's supposed to accelerate software testing and reduce the cost of developing increasingly complex modern applications. What LISA does is described as application behavior and performance virtualization. The widgetry creates on-demand 24/7 virtual test environments. It's supposed to lower test lab costs by up to 65% and shorten software release cycles by up to 38% by eliminating the testing constraints caused by dependent IT resources ... (more)

Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle with LISA - Part One: Introduction

This is the first of a six part series of posts on how ITKO LISA works across the Agile life cycle. For years, testing was an siloed activity that used different and unconnected tools within specific phases of the application lifecycle.  First, a development team would run a suite of JUnit tests as part of a build process. Then a QA team would manually create and run a suite of functional tests against a user interface. Performance teams would use a separate set of load tests to exercise and monitor the completed application.In this old world, there was not much sharing of inform... (more)

iTKO Revenues Up 100% Thanks to Virtualization and SOA

iTKO announced a record year of growth and expansion in 2008. Highlights from 2008 include the release of LISA Virtualize for performance environments, LISA Eclipse Edition 4.5, and the addition of more than 30 Global 2000 enterprise customers. "While overall IT spending is tightly controlled during tough economic times, in our research we have identified certain technology investments that a business cannot afford to pass up if they are to remain competitive, and principal among these is virtualization," said Theresa Lanowitz, senior analyst of voke. "With its new service virtu... (more)