Daily Archives: 12/04/2012

Cloud Performance Testing Tool Launched by Impetus

Impetus Technologies announced the release of SandStorm CE (SandStorm CloudEdition), a cloud-enabled version of its performance testing tool. SandStorm CE helps in saving the license and hardware provisioning costs, as well as offers affordable performance testing, with a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model.

With the release of SandStorm CE, Impetus provides its customers, enterprises, start-ups and ISVs an easy provisioning to load test their software at hugely reduced costs. It also reduces the customers’ CAPEX by automatically provisioning a cluster of servers and machines on the cloud, as and when needed. This helps customers test their applications against a concurrency of 50 – 200,000 users, with the same ease.

SandStorm CE helps test the performance of applications hosted in customers’ DMZ, datacenter or the cloud, seamlessly. The solution offers a ‘ready to use environment,’ and provides realistic test conditions across the application’s entire delivery chain from different parts of the globe.

SandStorm quickly identifies application bottlenecks and helps predict its reliability, scalability and performance issues. SandStorm is the only tool to provide multi-protocol support in a single package with easy parameterization of FLEX, AJAX, Silverlight and Applet based applications. Its integrated resource monitoring and intuitive real time status reporting enables high-end analytics and extract capabilities.

It helps reduce the performance engineering costs by at least 30%, vis-à-vis other popular load testing tools. Impetus offers comprehensive services around performance engineering, including performance testing and sizing, system diagnostics, performance tuning and optimization and capacity planning, among others.

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http://www.cloudcomputingdevelopment.net/cloud-performance-testing-tool-launched-by-impetus/

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Automating embedded software testing with Electric Cloud

The 2012 UBM Survey showed that, for the first time, QA engineers are becoming a significant portion of embedded software teams, and there is less concern about the quality of debugging tools for those teams,  However, the size of those teams is, in general, dropping and concern for tool quality is still number one, all of which makes hitting schedules on time the greatest challenge for those teams.

According to Dax Harfang at Electric Cloud, those pressures are even greater in hardware-centric companies who would rather not make a large investment in software QA, especially smaller companies that may be using resources around the world.  Farhang stated that “homegrown” approaches are hard to manage, can be very slow, and often lack documentation that a distributed team can access.  “Development teams need to address “back end” software production processes to save time, improve product quality and deliver software to market faster.”  New Tech Press talked with Harfang about meeting automating embedded test at the 2012 Design West Conference in San Jose.

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http://www.newtechpress.net/2012/04/10/automating-embedded-software-testing-with-electric-cloud/

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