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What are you using?
After the first few month of being out in the open source field I decided to take a look and see what are you – the community – are doing with our software. So I took a pick at sourceforge.net statistics page and noticed that we already passed the 31,000 downloads since April 11th – [...]
The search for your X point
We are all in the business of searching for our X point or better said, what is the X point relevant to our system?
Let me explain…
Software systems behave similar with response to growing number of users using the system. The
YSlow by Yahoo! And client side performance testing
In the post “To test or not to test? Client side load testing of Ajax application” I reviewed a long debate we have in the company regarding the need to test client side activity with the ever-growing use of AJAX applications. The bottom line of the post is that we need to separate the server [...]
“The Road Not Taken”
I have been preparing for our coming session at CAST2007 (http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/conference/sponsoredevents.html) and thinking of the different topics we want to discuss with the performance tester community and while doing so I
Ruminations on WebLOAD Open Source
Just found out that Elisabeth Hendrickson the blogger behind Ruminations blog has posted a nice blog about WebLOAD move to the open source. You can read it here.
Being one of the executives at RadView I can vouch that the quotes in the blog are not far from the true.
“Executive #1: “Let me get this straight. [...]
To test or not to test? Client side load testing of Ajax application
Everybody is talking about Ajax, some do it, some use it and some just talk about it… a recent visit to the Ajax world conference, definitely proved that with the amount of activity around Ajax and the different Ajax frameworks a testing solution is also needed.
…So we took our load testing tool, WebLOAD and tried [...]
The Open Source / Commercial dissonance
After a long journey we finally shipped our Open Source project and WebLOAD Open Source edition. One of the key debates we had during this process was how to embrace the open source model on one hand and yet maintain a valid business model for us as a commercial company. This is what this post [...]
Exciting days at RadView
These are exciting days at RadView. The company is launching its flagship product, WebLOAD as an Open Source offering and building itself as a commercial open source software company. In my career I’ve witnessed several incubations/inceptions and
Thread on load testing of push model base systems
RIA is not just about new user interface and sync\asynchronous web services calls, advance use of RIA will include different type of push models also referred as messaging\pub-sub\real-time type of scenarios. When it comes to performance testing we
The need for a testing framework
Development framework has been around for years, they are all about standardization and acceleration of the development process, but what about a testing framework? Why would an enterprise want to implement one?
The answer to these question