“How Slow Can They Go?” ...You definitely need to identify how slow your 3rd party providers can go before it starts to affect the performance of your sites. ... don’t try to replicate that traffic, just impair the actual traffic...
Continue reading...Friday, July 9, 2010
The holidays are not typically on our minds this early in the year given that it is currently early July and over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in portions of the Eastern USA. On the other hand, if you have an ecommerce site that has changed since the Holidays last year, then perhaps you should be thinking about gauging your traffic and applying a peak load to the site. Let’s not forget that even the biggest logos have had issues during peak traffic. Many large sites including HP’s outage in 2009, Wal-Mart’s outage in 2006, in 2008 Bloomingdale’s and J. Crew went down, and many others have made the news in recent years because their sites were note ready for the traffic. "...Load testing without taking latency into account gives the site an unfair advantage during load tests, which does not exist in the real world."
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 23, 2010
For those of you following my recent posts, this shouldn’t come as much of a shock. Shunra now has an exclusive offer for beta tester of HP’s LoadRunner in the Cloud that lets them use Shunra for HP Software FOR FREE!
Continue reading...Monday, June 7, 2010
My previous post about LoadRunner in the Cloud spoke about how Shunra™ for HP Software not only works well in clouds, but actually “completes the picture” for anyone conducting performance testing of applications that will be accessed remotely. I am not alone with these statements. SAP Labs, HP and Shunra are pleased to announce the availability of a new whitepaper, released today, June 7, titled, “Application Performance Testing in a Virtual Environment.”
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 19, 2010
HP today announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services that enables you to run HP LoadRunner v9.5 in Amazon EC2. The project is currently in beta, so it’s limited to the East US EC2 region, but does already include pre-built AMIs for your Controller (250 VUs) and any size of Load generator (32 or 64 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Since Steve Jobs presented Apple’s new addition, the IPAD, the press and the blogosphere are trying to assess the real impact on the new gadget. Is it a passing fad, like the Newton or the attempts by IBM to implement a tablet computer or a real game changer that finally, after almost 30 of personal [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 17, 2009
Video: Mark Tomlinson and Steve Feloney from HP address the risk of load testing Web 2.0 applications without considering WAN latency
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 25, 2009
One of my favorite partners to work with is LoadTester. Not only are they competent and efficient, but they are nice and will tell you what they really think. Their latest update on HP’s latest release of LoadRunner 9.5 goes into a lot more detail than any readme file will, with perspective and colorful commentary [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 6, 2009
Earlier this week, Shunra announced the release of a new product, VE Desktop for HP Software 5.0. This product is embedded into HP’s LoadRunner 9.5 and Performance Center 9.5 products and from the surface, looks a lot like a previous feature in LoadRunner called Mercury WAN Emulation (MWE). Because of the obvious similarities, there have [...]
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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