Ixia brings testing solution to reduce development risks & costs

BANGALORE, INDIA: Network testing, visibility, and security solutions provider, Ixia announced the addition of Ixia Developer to its comprehensive portfolio of testing solutions.

Ixia Developer is an agile application performance and security resilience tool.  It helps developers find bugs early, transforming the development lifecycle, reducing software development risks and costs, and speeding time to deployment.

Agile development is rapidly becoming business critical, as the time from development to deployment is no longer measured in months, but days or even hours. As such, despite early and continuous testing, products often contain bugs and vulnerabilities that slip through the cracks. In fact, according to the NIST, the annual cost incurred by these vulnerabilities in the U.S. alone is about $59.6 billion.

Ixia Developer tackles this problem head on. It generates rich and realistic application traffic along with malicious attacks and automated threats, enabling agile developers to find bugs and vulnerabilities as they write code.

Sunil Kalidindi, Vice President of Product Management at Ixia, said “Ixia Developer allows agile development and comprehensive, automated testing to happen in tandem—presenting the most realistic situations for the best understanding of potential bugs and vulnerabilities in any development cycle.”

Ixia Developer also offers developer-specific functionality, such as a comprehensive built-in debugger, and the ability to import and replay packet captures.

Further, it is easy to automate and/or embed Ixia Developer in continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) frameworks using REST APIs and a rich command line interface.

The agile CI/CD model is most effective when disparate teams across service provider, QA, production, development, and vendor can streamline discovery and resolution of issues found in different phases, accelerating time to market.

As a fully virtualized solution, Ixia Developer can be deployed in minutes.  It also eliminates the need for costly hardware investments from the desktop, to the laptop, to the data center, and to the cloud.