Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software

Testing 3G Hand Held Inventory Devices using Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite

I was approached a couple of days ago by one of our large customers, a major food manufacturer, to help them design a testing cycle for an hand-held device, to scan barcodes on their product’s pallets, as they are being unloaded from supply trucks into their regional depots. The devices utilize a LAN based  wireless [...]

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Location-aware deployment testing

As a corollary to last week’s blog about hosted load testing, I thought it would be interesting to explain a little about using a cloud-based test environment to perform pre-deployment testing for a cloud-based application. That sounds like a lot of clouds!  What we are simply trying to understand is where and how to deploy [...]

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Business Process Performance Monitoring – A WAN Emulation Solution

Recently I was brainstorming with an insurance company for ways we could help them reduce their costs for business process (application) performance monitoring by introducing WAN emulation into their environment. The problem was that they had thousands of locations accessing a wide variety (250+) applications.  Being an insurance company, most of the applications really were [...]

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Predicting Cloud Computing Application Performance

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) – during the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” the promise of reduced OPEX, along with more reliable, flexible and scalable application services made Cloud Computing THE hot technology. Here’s a nice chart that lays out some of the major players and where they play. Cloud services, such as Amazon’s Web [...]

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