The Keynote Internet Testing Environment is a highly flexible and efficient framework for testing the integrity of web services. Although KITE does not perform load testing, it allows a software engineer to craft detailed test scenarios without having to dedicate significant time to programming. With its easy to use transaction builder, engineers can step through a web application as a real user would, recording their interaction with the server. This interaction, or "transaction" as it is called in KITE, can later be automatically invoked for testing purposes.

Software testing is an important step when designing a website or developing a program. Testing the usability and functionality of your website is important because if your web site does not function properly you may loose potential customers or traffic. Software testing normally involves performing actions on a website or executing a program in order to find bugs and glitches. It also assesses how well the software or website will perform given different variables and determines if it can handle the amount of expected traffic when in operation.