Combining SOA monitoring with advanced testing

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Jan. 10, 2008

iTKO Inc. announces enhanced native support for enterprise IT monitoring frameworks within the latest release of its LISA 4 Testing and Validation solution for Web services.

iTKO's 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.

Ruston Vickers, CTO of iTKO said "by combining LISA with TIBCO Hawk, Tivoli, OpenView, or CA/Wily Introscope, customers can get a more complete view of what is happening to systems under test. The ability to 'cause the cause' within the application being monitored and share data in the same context literally ties together the effects being viewed, with the root cause as generated by the LISA testing environment."

LISA also allows extensions to capture proprietary metrics into test execution context as well.

Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner at Zapthink said "overall, high visibility and continuous validation go hand in hand when attempting to manage the performance of SOA applications throughout the Service Lifecycle. Ensuring SOA quality requires determining the root causes of issues in the Services as well as at lower infrastructural layers, in addition to having a management view into the processes and applications so risk can be better mitigated."

In addition, events such as failures or boundary conditions in these monitoring solutions can trigger test workflow execution within LISA, including creating user notifications or error reporting workflows within LISA's Continuous Validation Service.

Vickers added "LISA already contains the ability to test and accept data for most commonly used enterprise server and application metrics, such as JMX providers, SNMP data, and Windows Perform. LISA now ships with several out-of-the-box configurations for most major metrics providers and application servers such as BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, TIBCO, and JBoss.

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Source: Web Services.org

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