Forrester Wave recommends CA LISA for service virtualisation and testing

CA Technologies has been named a “Leader” in The Forrester Wave: Service Virtualization and Testing Solutions, Q1 2014*.

         

Forrester evaluated vendor solutions against 15 criteria. To qualify for inclusion in the report, vendors had to meet the following conditions:

• Features to develop stubs to simulate real APIs and service behaviour for testing.
• Market presence, strong growth momentum, and referenceable customers.
• A product that was generally available on September 16, 2013.

CA Technologies received the top score for the scalability measurement, and tied for the highest score in 'Global Presence and Installed Base'. The company also received the top score for its current offering – CA LISA 7.1 as well as the highest score possible in 'Developer/Tester Tools and Productivity', 'Simulation 'Accuracy', and 'Integration with DevOps'. In the strategy category, the company received the highest score possible for product roadmap, ability to execute and strategic enablement. 

According to the report, “CA focuses on DevOps. CA LISA has the strongest service virtualisation and testing (SVT) product in our evaluation, making it ideal for organisations with a comprehensive SVT enterprise strategy.” 

DevOps is a methodology that helps foster collaboration between development and operations teams. Service virtualisation is a key element in DevOps that helps to bring applications to market more quickly. 

“Today, all companies are driven by software applications.  They are tackling big challenges of developing and deploying applications with greater speed and quality to meet growing consumer demand,” said Sumal Karunanayake, VP, Application Delivery, APJ, CA Technologies. “Our leading SVT solutions can help our customers optimise the entire process and accelerate innovation.”

*Forrester Research, Inc., “The Forrester Wave: Service Virtualization and Testing Solutions, Q1 2014,” January 27, 2014.