iTKO integrates Eclipse into LISA, allows for more testing
November 11, 2008 —
SOA testing and validation provider iTKO has tied its SOA suite to Eclipse to stimulate a shared test environment.
LISA 4.5 was integrated into Eclipse today to automate testing within the platform. The suite handles unit, functional, regression, load and performance testing. The Eclipse edition of the product offers Eclipse capabilities for source control and life-cycle management. Standard Widget Toolkit interface elements have also been added to the iTKO suite. LISA test case documents can be stored within any Eclipse-based development project, company executives said.
According to iTKO, about 40% of LISA users are developers writing unit and functional tests. The Eclipse Edition lets developers build tests without changing environments. Chris Kraus, an iTKO product manager, said the new capabilities improve collaboration between development and QA.
“Developers test small units of code, and QA works on finalized, deployed systems,” Kraus said. “Allowing a developer to take a functional test case with good test data, save it and then pass it to QA for iterations allows the tester to include different use cases by varying the data and testing the boundary conditions.
“A shared test environment is key for anyone who is looking to shorten development and QA cycles. This allows testing to be done earlier in the life cycle and [supports] validation of the requirement to the services under construction, something QA has never had the opportunity to do.”
LISA’s user interface within Eclipse lets developers rapidly build tests, according to the company. Traditionally, developers test Java code in Eclipse by writing JUnit tests, Kraus said. LISA offers the ability to build out tests at the service layer without coding, increasing the number of tests that can be run, he said.
Components and integration code under development can be used without the need for a test client or for writing test code. Tying LISA’s state management engine to the developer’s workflow allows immediate load testing at the service level, Kraus said. “When a developer can run 10 concurrent calls to a service thread at any time, safety and memory leaks can be found early, before the code is deployed.”
Developers can now use existing suites of test code, such as JUnit tests, in LISA so that testing remains relevant to development teams. LISA 4.5 also adds automated build testing, integration testing, and systemwide load and performance testing.
“When developers can open, share and run LISA test cases within the Eclipse environment, they are able to start testing and validating at a component level much earlier in the process,” said John Michelsen, iTKO co-founder and chief scientist. “Agile, test-driven practices become much easier to implement when you are able to rapidly test and iterate using our Eclipse edition, and carry that effort through every stage of the software life cycle.”
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