Daily Archives: 05/04/2012

Smarter Than The Average Load Testing Bear

SmartBear Software has this week introduced loadUI Pro and upgraded its soapUI product to form a duo of testing software with the ability to monitor server side performance. Targeting testers working to refine API’s such as web services, loadUI Pro is a commercially charged version of loadUI, SmartBear’s open source load test solution for APIs.

 

 

In light of the mix of externally sourced web services and API protocols employed by today’s "complex composition applications", SmartBear suggests that its product is needed to perform "meticulous functional and load testing analysis" during both pre-deployment, throughout application lifecycle, and onward into regression testing post-deployment.

In operation, loadUI Pro generates scalable, high-volume, real-world load from a number of local and remote computers to help assess the impact felt on server load in terms of CPU and RAM usage. From its reports, the product should allow testers to channel information on database performance and resource utilization back to developers — it will also help identify the root causes of bottlenecks "anywhere" in the server stack.

Version 4.5 of soapUI has new test debugging functions to help streamline test creation. It also benefits from "improved assertion" to simplify the test validation process. Multi-environment support is available to enable quick changes between target test environments.

The new Test On Demand feature enables users to extend testing beyond the desktop and network by running tests from two external locations in SmartBear’s monitoring cloud for free. Additionally, soapUI 4.5 provides an improved experience for Mac users and addresses several Mac OS X issues.

"In the open source community, loadUI and soapUI have proven themselves as powerful, free tools helping developers to test and improve their code every step of the way. These releases not only make testing more streamlined and easy to administer but also provide a new level of insight so that roadblocks to quality become more apparent and easier to resolve pre-production," said Niclas Reimertz, GM of API testing solutions at SmartBear.

Source:

http://drdobbs.com/testing/232800240

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More Than 90% of Developers Believe Unit Testing Is Most Effective For Reducing Bugs

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80 percent of respondents said that bugs are the responsibility of developers and only 8 percent said it was QA’s. More than 54 percent of respondents noted that they were responsible for bugs in their company’s software. An additional 26 percent of respondents felt that another developer was most responsible for software bugs.

Finding and fixing bugs takes up a significant portion of developers’ time, according to the survey. 48 percent of respondents said that they spend up to 5 hours each week finding and fixing bugs and 38 percent said they spend up to 10 hours a week on this alone, which is 25 percent of the average work week. An additional 12 percent spend over 10 hours of their week finding and fixing bugs. According to data received from customers using Typemock Team Mate, tracking developers’ actual usage, the amount of time developers spend using the debugger is even higher than they think – around 50-55 percent of their time.

Today, a company’s value is greatly affected when customers experience bugs in their software. Over 50 percent of respondents noted that, as developers, it is most damaging to their reputation when end users report a bug in the program.

As the survey shows, unit testing is more crucial than ever and with proper unit testing developers will be more efficient, catch more bugs, and create higher-quality code.

“As professional programmers, we know that unit testing is the best way to get rid of software bugs,” said Eli Lopian, CEO of Typemock. “Over 90 percent of developers see unit testing as the most effective way to find and fix bugs. We know that unit testing is difficult to start and the rewards are great. This is exactly the problem that Typemock is out to solve – helping beginners, novices, and experts to reach their unit testing/TDD goals. Automated unit testing with Typemock’s Isolator V7 ensures software bugs are caught instantly so they can be corrected immediately.”

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http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/167901026/security/news/232800324/more-than-90-of-developers-believe-unit-testing-is-most-effective-for-reducing-bugs.html

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