iTKO's LISA WS-Testing Surpasses 5000th Download
Wednesday 21 March 20075000 registered downloads in less than six months demonstrates value of free web services testing solution from SOA testing leader.
iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete automated testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, announced it has passed the 5000th free download of its LISA WS-Testing tool. Based on the success of reaching this wide adoption level in less than six months, iTKO will indefinitely offer the testing solution for free to anyone who wishes to download it.
Initially released in October 2006, LISA WS-Testing is a no-code Web Services test authoring and execution solution that developers and business teams can use to test Web services deployments. The solution supports all current "WS-*" compliance protocols, as well as building and launching unit, functional and regression tests against current WSDL and SOAP objects. The free version is full-featured enterprise ready testing software, with no time-limited evaluation or functional restrictions.
LISA WS-Testing contains the Web Services testing features included in a single user edition of iTKO's flagship LISA Complete SOA Framework. Updates to the product will be available to all licensees for a year after download. The software installer for LISA WS-Testing (Windows, Unix, Linux or Mac OSX) is now available on several development and download sites such as Download.com, VersionTracker and MacUpdate.com, or directly from iTKO at http://www.itko.com/ws-testing .
""iTKO has had a great deal of success in evangelizing the adoption of SOA Testing as a criticial component of SOA Governance," said Jim Mackay, chief marketing officer, iTKO, Inc. "To effectively govern IT and software assets, enterprises must have testing that completely covers all SOA technologies, from the UI to the implementation and database layer, and not just WSDL/SOAP testing of XML. That is why LISA-WS was released as a free commercial product, not trial-ware or an open source utility. It meets and in many cases exceeds the value of other commercially available 'WS-only' products."
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One early adopter noted, "I've been searching for a product to test my web services. There are a few products out there that claim to do this well. LISA is the only product that has all of the capabilities I need. iTKO has provided me excellent service through their web forums, and the best part about all of this is that it's free."
""We're thrilled that LISA WS-Testing has taken off the way it has, and in such a short period of time," said iTKO's Mackay "Web Services testing is important, but it is more important to recognize that the business logic resides in deeper implementation layers. LISA WS-Testing has allowed more than 5,000 users to quickly gain value from having more robust web services, while also opening the door to complete testing of that business logic."
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