software software testing service virtualization founded 1999 headquarters plano texas usa key people john michelsen ruston vickers shridhar mittal jon lauck robert humphrey products lisa service virtualization lisa development cloud manager lisa continuous validation lisa pathfinder lisa test website www.itko.com itko is an enterprise software company based in plano texas . itko s lisa product suite is designed to improve the effectiveness of application development teams especially those involved in custom applications soa and cloud computing . itko became a ca technologies company in 2011 . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit company founders john michelsen and ruston vickers were operating a custom software consulting company when they invented the test engine kernel of lisa 1.0 in 1999 to provide high volume load testing of a java based trading network . since the first commercial release of lisa 2.0 in 2002 itko has increasingly focused on testing the many disparate types of components and technologies that can make up distributed internet based enterprise applications . shridhar mittal became president and ceo in september 2005 . 1 the company s customers include first data american airlines anz 2 citigroup directv oracle corporation southern california edison and time warner cable . on june 29 2011 ca technologies announced that it would acquire itko for 330 million . 3 4 in august ca announced that the acquisition had been completed . 5 products edit the lisa suite includes the following products this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . december 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message lisa service virtualization or virtualize pioneered the concept of service virtualization which involves creating virtual models to simulate the behavior of constrained resources to eliminate dependencies on unavailable or inaccessible resources during the software development and testing phases . 6 lisa test provides an automated testing solution for distributed application architectures that leverage soa bpm integration suites and esbs . product teams can use lisa test to design and execute automated unit functional regression integration load and performance tests . they can test multiple layers of the distributed architecture including rich internet application uis and heterogeneous middle tier technologies . 7 lisa validate helps organizations to ensure that changes to individual services do not cause unintended consequences for business requirements and policies . lisa pathfinder improves the ability of development and testing teams to identify and fix defects in complex distributed systems . references edit bounds jeff april 2 2006 . itko s bet on testing pays off . dallas business journal . hutchinson james october 12 2010 . anz picks up in house testing platform . computerworld . jarzemsky matt june 29 2011 . ca to acquire software maker interactive tko for 330m . the wall street journal . hickey andrew june 30 2011 . ca cloud spending spree continues with 330 million itko purchase . crn . ca technologies completes interactive watchmouse acquisitions . computer technology review . august 16 2011 . worthington dave december 15 2007 . virtualizing the development life cycle . sd times . o connor paul january 21 2008 . soa world product review itko lisa 4 soa testing . soa world magazine . external links edit ca lisa service virtualization former itko lisa product servicevirtualization.com community forum old itko home page virtualization journal article byline are soa and virtualization related march 2 2008 . searchsoa article soa virtualization gets real rich seeley november 28 2007 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title itko & oldid 743419387 categories computer companies of the united statesdevelopment software companiessoftware companies based in texassoftware testing toolsload testing toolssoftware reviewsoftware companies established in 1999companies based in dallasca technologieshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from december 2012all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 15 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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