Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software

LoadRunner and the Cloud – It’s here!!

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 [...]

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HP tackles the challenges of load testing

Video: Mark Tomlinson and Steve Feloney from HP address the risk of load testing Web 2.0 applications without considering WAN latency

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Video: Test Mobile Performance with Shunra

Traveling to this week’s HP Software Universe in Hamburg with Mark Tomlinson was a real treat.  Not only do Mark and I share many non-professional interests, but our lives as product managers give us plenty to chat about.  On our train ride from Berlin to Hamburg, Mark’s insatiable blogging appetite bared itself while we were [...]

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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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