Patni partners iTKO for SOA testing

BANGALORE: IT services and solutions provider Patni Computer Systems Ltd., today announced a partnership with iTKO, a US-based testing software company, to deliver Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) testing services as part of its comprehensive Verification and Validation (V&V) practice.

Patni said in a statement that through this partnership, it will deploy the iTKO LISA SOA Testing solution at its V&V Centre of Excellence (COE) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

With this partnership, Patni will strengthen its foray into SOA testing, giving the company the capability to offer end-to-end solutions for deploying SOA, the statement said.

According to Dilip Dhanuka, senior vice president and head of Product and Technology Initiatives, Patni. “The scale of testing required for complex, dynamic SOA applications can be daunting for the world’s biggest institutions. LISA exercises every layer of SOA, ascertaining cost-effective test creation and reuse, with constant validation of functional integrity and performance.”

The two firms will work together to offer LISA SOA tests as a part of Patni’s V&V methodology and toolset, ensuring rapid adoption for end customers.