Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software

Shunra and the Cloud – It’s here!!

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!

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Hosted Load Testing II

My friend Mark Tomlinson from HP recently wrote an informative blog about “Understanding the language of hosted load testing.”  The blog touched on two competing approaches to application performance testing that were referenced as “behind the firewall” and “outside the firewall”.  Behind the firewall testing usually means testing in a lab environment such as a [...]

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Adding Network Analysis to a LoadRunner 9.5 Scenario

In a previous post I explained how to add network conditions to a LoadRunner scenario, answering the question, “How will this application perform in a remote site?”  The results from running a LoadRunner test with network conditions will highlight transactions that perform well under network conditions as well as pinpoint transactions that will degrade in [...]

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Adding Network Conditions to a LoadRunner 9.5 Scenario

In the previous post I presented a new solution that increases the accuracy of load tests by easily adding network conditions to the load generators. This will be the first in a series of posts that walks through the steps needed to setup a test scenario that includes end user load and network conditions. By [...]

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Replacing Remote Load Generators

Have you ever tried to run a test, only to find that your Load Generators half-way around the world are not responding? If any of that sounds familiar, then you might want to consider using network emulation instead of deploying Load Generators around the globe. By using an emulation solution, you can bring your testing [...]

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