Identifying bottlenecks with New Relic's Java profiling tool

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Apr 292010

A couple weeks ago, New Relic launched a new hosted, on-demand Java profiling tool. We’re big fans of New Relic (great for Ruby or Java), dynaTrace (great for .NET or Java), and other application performance monitoring tools because they complement our website load testing and website monitoring services so well.

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At BrowserMob, we’re a Java shop, and so it didn’t take long for us to have an opportunity to try out New Relic’s Java profiler. We were getting reports from some customers that viewing the response time charts of their monitoring data was occasionally slow (don’t worry, we didn’t miss the irony.)

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Watir and Selenium joining forces for the benefit of all testers and developers

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Apr 272010

We’re a few weeks late to the story, but we think it’s still important to call attention to: Watir and Selenium are joining forces. For those unfamiliar with Watir or Selenium, both of them are open source browser automation frameworks. For years they have been “competing” in the open source community, with Watir winning favor among the Ruby community and those who needed strong IE support, while Selenium won favor among the Java and C# crowds and those who really valued cross-browser support.

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uTest launches brand new portal and API

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Apr 262010

uTest, the world’s largest community of on-demand QA professionals, launched a major update to their customer portal over the weekend. The changes included a bunch of good stuff for both testers and end-users, including:

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  • A brand new Flash-based UI that loads much faster than before and is much easier to use.
  • Backend optimizations to allow the uTest to continue to grow beyond their already impressive 25K+ community of testers
  • A brand new API allowing for more advanced integration and partnerships.
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BrowserMob Launches Industry First: Video Capture For Load Testing

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Apr 142010

Today we’re extremely excited to announce another industry-first in the world of load testing: video capture.

From day one, we always believed that cloud computing ushered in an era where the majority of website load tests could and should be done using real browsers, something no one else had considered before. Doing so made scripting painless, load tests more realistic, and provided better error reporting through the use of screenshots.

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New website; new monitoring locations and features

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Apr 082010

Today we are pleased to announce several major improvements to BrowserMob’s monitoring service, as well as a brand new website:

  • Drastically improved charts, including object-level performance charts
  • Three new locations: New York City, Amsterdam, and Singapore
  • Raw HTTP header captures for any failed transaction
  • A brand new website, including a major update to our free Instant Test tool

Please check them out, or continue reading for more information.

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