Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

Load testing tools are important to test a specific software's performance in actual or realistic environments. After all, a web application is only as favorable as its use in practical scenarios.

With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial ...

WELCOME TO THIS installment of the "Architect's Corner." This month we examine how an enterprise Java™ technology development project can mitigate the risk of not achieving its performance and ...

A public Web site usually represents a considerable investment. Everyone wants it to operate smoothly; there’s a lot of pressure on the development and operations teams to ensure that there won’t be a ...

The reason to load test your client/server application is to detect multi-user interaction errors, right? Wrong! If this is your view of load testing, you are seeing only one dimension of this ...

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We’re now living in a time where users expect as much functionality, reliability and flexibility from Web apps as desktop programs. All our data is slowly but surely moving into the cloud, and ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. ThinGenius' TLoad testing tool, first released in 2005, is currently used by 20 customers. Citrix plans to fold Edinburgh, Scotland-based ThinGenius into ...