Web Services Testing Tool Available for Free Download

CGIDir
Tuesday, October 17, 2006; 07:36 AM

iTKO, Inc., a provider of testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced it has released LISA WS-Testing, a fully functional Web services testing solution, as a free download. LISA WS-Testing was built from the Web services testing capabilities within iTKO’s commercial SOA software test automation product, LISA 3.5 Complete SOA Test Platform. The free LISA WS-Testing download is available at www.itko.com/ws-testing.

LISA WS-Testing is a fully functional, no-code Web services test authoring and execution solution that developers, quality assurance and business teams can use to test Web services deployments. This solution supports all current protocols as well as unit, functional and regression tests needed to build and launch against current WSDL and SOAP objects.

“People have asked if the free WS-Testing offering is comparable to that of leading Web services testing tools available today,” said John Michelsen, Co-founder and Chief Architect, iTKO. “This is commercial product, not trialware or an open source utility. We would not offer the product if it did not meet or exceed other commercially available products.”

The first 50,000 people to download LISA WS-Testing will receive a perpetual license from iTKO free of charge. Users will be able to test as many Web services as they need for as long as necessary.

"SOA quality requires a continuous, collaborative focus on maintaining quality across the entire SOA implementation," said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst at ZapThink. "While Web Services testing is an important piece of the SOA quality puzzle, it's really just the starting point. By offering LISA WS-Testing as a free download, iTKO is raising the bar on SOA quality for all players in this space."

LISA WS-Testing contains the Web services testing features included in a single user edition of iTKO’s flagship LISA Complete SOA solution. Updates to the product will be available to all licensees for a year after this product release.

“iTKO’s mission states that everyone within an organization should own software quality,” continued Michelsen. “We want to ease the overall adoption process for SOAs by giving development and QA teams an easy-to-use tool to start testing Web services, a critical component of a SOA, which is usually the first toe in the water before a full SOA strategy is adopted and implemented. By providing WS-Testing as a free download, organizations will have one less barrier toward that goal.”

iTKO has a history of working with enterprises on software quality issues. The company’s deep experience designing and building mission-critical enterprise software for world-class clients ensures a key understanding of the challenges of maintaining quality in the face of complexity. For more information on iTKO and its suite of quality assurance and testing solutions, go to www.itko.com.

 iTKO LISA Complete SOA Testing Platform system 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 Sun, Capgemini, Cardinal Health, AMD, TIBCO and i2.