DATA SHEET

CA LISA® Pathfinder

At a Glance
CA LISA® Pathfinder helps organizations increase quality, expand test automation and accelerate time-
to-market by automating the process of creating and maintaining virtual services, and simplifying the
production and management of automated test suites through the use of live application traffic captured
in pre-production. CA LISA Pathfinder also allows business workflows to be quickly discovered and mapped
to help expose complex application architectures and potential performance bottlenecks. In addition,
software defects can be captured and rapidly communicated using detailed reports allowing problem root
cause to be more quickly identified and fixed.

Key Benefits / Results Business Challenges

Expand Test Automation. Better automation
helps eliminate defects early, improves quality.
Automate Virtual Services Creation. Build
virtual services in minutes, not days.
Capture Defects in Complex Applications.
Capture, communicate and resolve defects
faster.
Optimize Business Workflows. Identify and
reduce or eliminate business transaction
performance bottlenecks.
Key Features
Automate Test Suite Creation. Rapidly
generate automated regression test suites by
capturing live traffic during application usage.
Automate Virtual Services Creation.
Dramatically simplify the creation, updating
and management of virtual services for
CA LISA customers.
Today’s enterprise applications are often built in modern, distributed environments that
include mobile platforms, cloud deployments and service-based architectures. This makes
development and testing extremely complex and expensive. Key challenges include:
• Creating Effective Automated Test Suites: Although critical to successful software
delivery, automated test suites are difficult to create, execute and maintain over time as
the software under test evolves and changes. Many organizations abandon the effort as
too expensive or impractical to achieve. The result is more defects increasingly escape
into production.
• Building and Maintaining Virtual Services: Application teams adopting a service
virtualization solution from any vendor spend considerable resources on training to gain
product expertise and on the creation, updating and managing of virtual services as
applications under test evolve and change.
• Testing and Validating Real-World Usage Scenarios in Pre-Production: Creating
accurate test suites and simulating and predicting production use-cases, load and
behavior is particularly challenging, especially when the IT organization is using services
that are outside of their control. A lack of valid production scenarios during development
and test often leads to defects surviving into production, where the cost and negative
performance impacts are greatest.

Defect Capture and Reporting. Automate and • Capturing and Resolving Defects Quickly: As applications grow in complexity,
simplify the process of capturing and reporting understanding the root cause of an observed defect in a multi-tier application
defects using a simple ‘Alt-Click’ from the architecture can be almost impossible. This increases the time and cost of resolving
browser, allowing IT teams to identify issue
defects which may require substantial efforts to reproduce, isolate and fix.
root cause and resolve defects more quickly
while reducing costs.
Discover Business Workflows and
Performance Bottlenecks. Capture live
business transactions and visually map
workflows and performance bottlenecks.
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Solution Overview Capture and Visualize Workflows for Automated Tests, Virtual Services, Performance
CA LISA Pathfinder automates many of the and Defect Reporting
tasks associated with creating virtual services
and automated test suites allowing teams
to enhance the value of CA LISA. Pathfinder
also makes the task of managing and updating
virtual services and automated test suites
simpler as applications under test evolve
and change. Teams benefit from the ability
to rapidly generate automated test suites
and virtual services in a few simple clicks.
When application problems are found,
CA LISA Pathfinder provides the ability to
capture and report defects with a simple
‘Alt-Click’ from the browser. This allows
developers to rapidly identify root cause
and resolve issues more quickly, without
having to reproduce the error conditions.
For complex business workflows, CA LISA
Pathfinder also provides deep insight into
application architectures, creating visual Unlike solutions that require expensive network, CA LISA Pathfinder is an advanced,
topologies with performance data that can and error-prone manual efforts in order modern solution that uses embedded agent
be used to identify bottlenecks and tune to create, update and maintain virtual technology, capturing data from inside the
application performance for business services and automated test suites, CA LISA application–even hard-to-capture internal APIs.
transactions earlier in the development Pathfinder greatly reduces this complexity
lifecycle. by automating much of the effort involved Related Products/Solutions
in creating and managing virtual services CA LISA Service Virtualization. CA LISA
Critical Differentiators and automated test suites. This sets Pathfinder integrates and enhances service
With more than 200 customers worldwide CA LISA Pathfinder apart in terms of virtualization by “shifting left” development
across a broad range of industries, ease-of-use, time-to-value and overall tasks earlier in the software development
CA Technologies continues to extend its cost and impact of the solution. lifecycle to facilitate reduced time-to-
leadership in service virtualization with the market, lower infrastructure costs, reduced
In contrast with the legacy methods of
advanced automated testing capabilities demand and contention for hardware and
capturing application data using common
available in CA LISA Pathfinder. labs and better application quality.
proxy gateways that simply listen to the

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