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)

iTKO LISA Combines SOA Monitoring with Advanced Test Execution Capabilities

iTKO announced enhanced native support for enterprise IT monitoring frameworks within the latest release of their LISA 4 Testing & Validation solution. The new Advanced Test Execution capabilities of LISA allow IT teams to quickly generate events and transactions that appear on the monitoring framework, without the need to code a test harness. LISA can also become an Agent that listens to the resulting metrics - making it an integral part of the enterprise's application management process. "By combining LISA with TIBCO Hawk, Tivoli, OpenView, or CA/Wily Introscope, customers ca... (more)

Skytap's Cloud Computing and ITKO LISA as an Initial Partner

Skytap, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based virtual lab solutions, today announced its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance program to enable on-demand distribution of commercial software solutions through its Virtual Lab platform. Skytap's initial ISV partners include ITKO LISA. Skytap's Virtual Lab automation platform, combined with ITKO LISA, will enable customers to dynamically spin up entire IT environments for service-oriented testing or training labs. I'm here at STARwest in hot Anaheim, CA, and a lot of the people I'm talking to are mighty curious about how Virt... (more)

iTKO’s LISA Virtualize Software to Be Resold by HP

iTKO is announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement for HP to resell iTKO's LISA Virtualize product. With this agreement, customers can combine iTKO's innovative virtualization software product with HP's market share leading Quality Management, Functional and Performance Testing solutions to accelerate testing efforts and reduce costs associated with the delivery of modern applications. The addition of iTKO's LISA Virtualize product to HP's Quality and Performance Management solutions can help accelerate the application lifecycle by eliminating costly and common system ... (more)