18 years ago I subscribed to Evernote, a document management system that allowed me to go paperless. Every bit of paper that comes into my house immediately gets scanned on my phone and entered into my account, where its accessible from my phone. That includes email attachments like PDFs, notes from meetings, invoices, medical bills, etc. No matter where I am, I can easily lookup that account number or receipt without needing paper or a laptop.
I happily paid the yearly fee as it increased over that time, but two years ago Evernote was purchased by Bending Spoons, an EU-based … Continue reading »
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We’re excited to announce the release of Web Performance Tester version 6.8, packed with significant enhancements that make testing modern web applications easier and more powerful than ever. This release represents months of development focused on security, performance, and reliability improvements. Licenses for existing customers will be updated the week of July 21st.
Easy Page Delineation
As we explain in the article Understanding Web Pages in Modern Web Apps, it can be difficult to figure out the definition of a “web page” in modern apps. With asynchronous calls and single-page architectures the definition of a “page” has … Continue reading »
Eventually in every planning meeting for web load testing the question comes up: can we test with just one user account?
The short answer is “no”.
The longer answer is “heck no”.
The best practice is always to simulate real users as closely as practical, which in this case means concurrent simulated users should login on separate accounts, just like real users. If the test cases are idempotent, i.e. running them doesn’t affect the state of the account, and user accounts aren’t cached, then the answer is easy: at a minimum you need as many test accounts as the maximum number … Continue reading »
The Velocity Conference is the biggest and best web performance event in the field, and completely eclipses the testing conferences that add in performance as an afterthought. Well, if truth be told its the only conference entirely on the subject, but that’s besides the point. The others might have a separate performance track, while this entire conference is devoted to building, testing, and operating high volume sites.
http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012
We’re a media partner this year, so if you’re thinking of attending be sure to use this 20% discount code: WEBPER. The conference has … Continue reading »
The 2012 car racing season got off to shaky start for our intrepid SpecE30 car and driver. The driver, Jason Tower, is still not back 100% after surgery to repair a torn ligament in his hand, but none-the-less headed to the Virginia International Raceway to try his luck at a weekend of SpecE30 racing.
The first race on Saturday was a disaster after a series of mishaps:
“… a car went off in turn 3 on the first lap which summoned the
emergency vehicles to the spot. The next time around another car
failed to see the yellow flag, … Continue reading »