Archive for January, 2009

The Future of Test Case Reuse (Using Amazon EC2)

Monday, January 19th, 2009

James Whittaker recently blogged about his view of the future of test case reuse. He points out that reusable tests (usually automated ones) are heavily dependent on the local machine environment. That is: a reusable test might work on Sally’s computer, but not on Greg’s.
He argues that in the future, this problem will be solved:

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Ajaxian.com: Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

We recently published an article on Ajaxian.com titled Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard. This is an excellent overview of the challenges that face testers when working on performance testing for today’s modern web applications. Please check it out and let us know what you think.

BrowserMob Support in Europe

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Today we’re pleased to announce that BrowserMob now supports generating load from either the Washington, DC area (US east coast) or from Dublin, Ireland (western Europe). This means BrowserMob customers can now choose where the browsers that participate in their load tests will run from, resulting in an even more accurate end-user simulation. This new [...]

Plans for Selenium in 2009

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Because BrowserMob relies on Selenium to record and play back traffic, we wanted to take a moment to share the latest news in the Selenium world with our BrowserMob customers. On the Selenium blog I just posted the following, which discusses our short-term goals for 2009:

Our two week survey is ending today and the vast [...]