Archive for the 'Announcements' Category

BrowserMob Featured at TechCrunch Event

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

It’s been crazy few weeks for us at BrowserMob. Right after we presented about cloud load testing at FutureTest (see more on the Amazon Web Services blog) we were invited to be one of the five companies to present at the TechCrunch cloud-computing roundtable.
The event was a lot of fun and we were really happy [...]

BrowserMob Presenting Today at FutureTest

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

This morning I will be presenting at with Jinesh Varia, an Amazon Web Services evangelist, at FutureTest in New York City. The conference is centered around the idea of exploring the future directions to take testing, QA, and software development. Jinesh Varia wrote up a nice summary of the slides we presented.
In our talk, we [...]

BrowserMob Reduces Costs Even More with Virtual Users

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

As of today, BrowserMob now supports both concurrent browsers and simulated virtual users. The term virtual user was adopted by early load test providers as a way to describe the technique of simulating the HTTP traffic that a real user would cause when visiting a website. While BrowserMob’s core technology sidesteps the concept of virtual [...]

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 [...]

New Features: Virtual User Think Time and Unique Parameterization

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Due to requests from many of our users, we’ve rolled out two new features to BrowserMob:

The ability to specify “think time” for virtual users with the setSpeed and pause commands.
The option to reference the unique “virtual user” ID, which makes testing sites that don’t allow concurrent user logins much easier to test.

Here’s a brief summary [...]

Open For Business

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

BrowserMob officially opened for business today. While there are still several last-minute items to do (our FAQ is still not fully answered), we’ve decided that after months of polish and preparation, we’re now ready to open up BrowserMob to the public.

So what is it?
BrowserMob is the world’s first load testing service that uses real browsers [...]

Days from Launch

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

We’re only a day or two from officially launching BrowserMob. The only holdups are documentation and our new logo. The logo is out of our hands (we have an excellent graphic designer helping us out), but the documentation is definitely something we can wrap up on our own.
Since this blog serves as both our blog [...]

Welcome

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Welcome to the BrowserMob blog. BrowserMob is a new, low-cost service that offers on-demand load testing using real web browsers. This blog is where new features and announcements about BrowserMob are made.
But more than that, this blog is a place where load testing and performance testing tips and tricks are discussed, dissected, and disseminated. If [...]