Computer Business IBM Turns to Federated Integration Testing (FIT)
Computer business IBM has been working on a new concept – Federated Integration Testing (FIT) – since the beginning of 2007 using teams of people in its research and development centers worldwide.
Mick Lickman, leader of FIT at its Hursley Center states that the concept is different from previous types of integration testing done by individual product development teams because it is based around the ideas of real customers. Each of the computer business’ products has a scenario testing team, but FIT will put the product together in real-world settings to get to the heart of what customers are actually doing with each product. It’s possible that these integration stacks could eventually be made into products. There is a possibility FIT will be sold to solution providers and others to help them show customers what specific solutions can do.
The computer business’ FIT team is led by IBM Global Services and some select IBM customers. The stacks have been used so far to simplify some of the more sophisticated parts of specific products. Lickman’s team looks at these stacks using services-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) along with other types of systems.
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