Better Software - September 2008 - (Page 43) Product Announcements solutions. The combined solution will provide a platform to manage multiple agile processes and ongoing customer feedback, while improving visibility and requirements traceability between defects, issues and tasks, and the actual source code changes made to address them. The results from agile software delivery teams are clear: faster delivery of quality software, significantly improved project visibility, and better alignment between business and IT organizations. But the ongoing challenge for many companies is taking early success—often at a team or division level—and scaling the success broadly across their companies. Impediments to success often include teams building the right skills and using the right tools to deliver results. Visit www.rallydev.com for more information. LISA 4.5 DALLAS, TX—iTKO LISA announces the release of LISA 4.5 SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization Solution. LISA 4.5 extends the functionality of the award-winning LISA 4 suite, adding service virtualization for load and performance testing and customer-driven enhancements. New features and enhancements for LISA 4.5 include: • Performance-ready LISA Virtual Services Environment (VSE): LISA VSE provides a ready target for the test lab, capturing and simulating the rest of the architecture dependencies with a high level of functional accuracy in terms of business logic and data. VSE supports more than 2,500 plus transactions per second on a single typical CPU instance, at a fraction (average 3 to 5 percent) of the hardware and software provisioning and maintenance cost of attempting to replicate a test environment, when many of the components are distributed and not under the team’s direct control. • Native Integration Platform support increased: Most iTKO customers are seeking to better manage technologies using leading integration vendor platforms. Therefore, much innovation has been applied to increasing support of business process validation for BPM tools and interaction with IT operations and monitoring frameworks such as TIBCO Hawk, CA/Wily, IBM Tivoli, and HP OpenView. • Improved UI layer testing: Today’s rich Internet applications (RIA) models are driving more complex functionality into the Web browser. LISA 4.5 further enhances testability of dynamic business interfaces such as those used in SaaS, eCommerce applications, and reporting and monitoring dashboards. In addition to supporting Web/HTTP, AJAX, Swing, AWT, DOM, and other presentation layer technologies, Adobe Flash, Flex, and Microsoft ActiveX are now testable with LISA. • Usability and workflow enhancements: In addition to some look An offering of the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology Systems-Centric Software Engineering Graduate programs tailored to the real-world education needs of today's Software and Systems Professionals Integrating the principles of Systems and Software Engineering to provide students with the skills required to conceive, develop, assure, and maintain complex software-intensive systems. Graduate Certificate and Master's Degree programs are offered in convenient, flexible delivery formats. Courses held on-site at corporate and government facilities, online via Stevens award-winning WebCampus, and on-campus in Hoboken, NJ. To learn more about Stevens Systems-Centric Software Engineering programs and degree options, visit: www.stevens.edu/sse www.StickyMinds.com SEPTEMBER 2008 BETTER SOFTWARE 43 http://www.rallydev.com http://www.stevens.edu/sse http://www.StickyMinds.com
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