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Mark's technology predictions for the new year: 2010

Although this is my first public publishing of my technology predictions for the new year, I have always been a person who likes to imagine that I have some magical intuition about the future of technology. At the same time my experience as a performance...

Published 02-04-2010 6:50 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Tomlinson

Application Tuning? or Adding More Servers? Hyperformix and HP LoadRunner help you to decide!

You might have heard the phrase "don't just throw hardware at a performance problem" and that means you should be smart about your investments in solving performance issues and capacity plans. As you might imagine, many customers have asked...

Published 01-23-2010 1:20 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Tomlinson, Hyperformix

Happier Jetting with HP LoadRunner: at JetBlue Quality and Performance are not just IT issues…

I thought to myself, "I hope this airline uses a robust, exhaustive automated regression test to make sure all the dependent software systems are certified for life-critical use."

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Published 01-15-2010 6:26 PM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Tomlinson

Video: Real Stories of Load Testing Web 2.0 - Part 4

The fourth and final video of our Load Testing Web 2.0 series covers a very common difficulty in testing nearly any system, even older architectures; dependent calls external to the system under test. The concept of "stubbing" isn't anything...

Published 12-28-2009 10:18 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Feloney, Tomlinson

Video: Real Stories of Load Testing Web 2.0 - Part 3

The third part in our Load Testing Web 2.0 series covers a not-so new concept of server-side data processing. Don't be fooled into thinking you already know about server performance, because these new architectures are using client-like Javascript...

Published 12-21-2009 10:10 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Feloney, Tomlinson

FREE Trial of Shunra's WAN emulation within HP LoadRunner

Who said good things don't come for free? Recently I've spent much more time with our partners at Shunra Software...and I've learned more about networking and performance than I've ever imagined. In celebration of HP Software Universe...

Published 12-18-2009 4:41 PM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Tomlinson, Shunra

Video: Real Stories of Load Testing Web 2.0 - Part 2

As the second part in this series we now, we highlight another common challenge we hear from customers testing new web applications; client-side performance. As you add these exciting and new components into the once-upon-a-time-very-thin browser, you'll...

Published 12-17-2009 10:03 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Feloney, Tomlinson

Video: Test Mobile Performance with Shunra (...can you hear me now?...now?)

Imagine yourself with 3 colleagues riding on an evening train from Berlin to Hamburg, and each of you have the same mobile service provider and similar phones. For 90 minutes, each of you are getting connected with different roaming providers, connection...

Published 12-16-2009 7:15 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Tomlinson, Shunra, WAN Emulation

LoadRunner Blog-o-rama: LIVE from HP Software Universe 2009 Hamburg

I'm now on the second day of this week, getting ready for a customer advisory board meeting all day here in Hamburg, Germany. This week we are having the 2009 HP Software Universe conference and I will try to be blogging and twittering all the day...

Published 12-15-2009 6:36 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Tomlinson

Video: Real Stories of Load Testing Web 2.0 - Part 1

We know many of you are finding great challenges with testing new web applications built with modern architectures and components like Silverlight, Flex, JavaFX and AJAX. So, Steve and I decided to put together a multi-segement video covering some of...

Published 12-14-2009 9:55 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Feloney, Tomlinson, Shunra

Autobiography of a Performance User Story

I am a performance requirement and this is my story. I just got built and accepted in the latest version of a Web-based SaaS (software as a service) application (my home!) that allows salespersons to search for businesses (about 14 million in number)...

Published 12-07-2009 7:11 PM by HMakhija

Filed under: Performance Testing, Makhija, Agile, SDLC

Where does Performance Testing fit in Agile SDLC?

Is agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) all about sprinting i.e. moving stories from product backlog to sprint backlog and then executing iterative cycles of development and testing? IMHO, not really! We all know that certain changes in an application...

Published 11-12-2009 6:55 PM by HMakhija

Filed under: Performance Center, Makhija, Agile, Scrum, SDLC

Headless Performance Testing

What is headless testing? It is any testing that does not have a GUI. We are all used to creating a performance script from recording a business process . This is accomplished by having a GUI for the business process that can be recorded. But do you always...

Published 10-30-2009 8:08 PM by sfeloney

Filed under: Performance, Feloney, Testing, SOA, QA Manager, Tester

Video: How LoadRunner Works

Sure, I know that we already posted a screen-shot video about LoadRunner Walkthrough , but it might also be nice to share another video whiteboard session to introduce HP LoadRunner and how the individual components of HP LoadRunner and HP Diagnostics...

Published 10-30-2009 12:49 AM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Tomlinson

Understanding the language of hosted load testing

I recently got an email from a colleague which was an invitation from a testing service vendor which does load testing on "The Cloud" (internet-hosted testing service). The invitation included some misleading language about load testing that...

Published 10-27-2009 8:19 PM by mark.tomlinson

Filed under: LoadRunner, Tomlinson, Cloud

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Mark's technology predictions for the new year: 2010

Application Tuning? or Adding More Servers? Hyperformix and HP LoadRunner help you to decide!

Happier Jetting with HP LoadRunner: at JetBlue Quality and Performance are not just IT issues…

Video: Real Stories of Load Testing Web 2.0 - Part 4

Video: Real Stories of Load Testing Web 2.0 - Part 3

FREE Trial of Shunra's WAN emulation within HP LoadRunner

Video: Real Stories of Load Testing Web 2.0 - Part 2

Video: Test Mobile Performance with Shunra (...can you hear me now?...now?)

LoadRunner Blog-o-rama: LIVE from HP Software Universe 2009 Hamburg

Video: Real Stories of Load Testing Web 2.0 - Part 1

Autobiography of a Performance User Story

Where does Performance Testing fit in Agile SDLC?

Headless Performance Testing

Video: How LoadRunner Works

Understanding the language of hosted load testing