Webinars
Is Testing Really Dead? The New Criteria For Testing Today’s Apps
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
10am-11am PT, 1pm-2pm ET
SOASTA’s new webinar series explores the question “Is Testing Really Dead?” from the perspective of today’s web and mobile development. Introducing this new series is testing thought leader and author Scott Barber, President and CTO of PerfTestPlus. In this webinar, he’ll address what developers and testers need to consider as they move to new testing technologies and methodologies. He’ll introduce a set of pragmatic rights proposed by SOASTA that all testers should demand of their new testing solutions.
Scott and the SOASTA team will address the need for today’s testing tools, platforms, and methodologies to deliver:
• Speed in testing to match speed of development and deployment
• Control to create and manage every aspect of tests directly
• Results and Analytics in one place, accessible in real-time
• Scale to match the real world production demands
• Complete testing across the application life cycle
• Accessibility to every developer, team and global organization
Announcing SOASTA’s New Mobile App Testing Technology
This week SOASTA announced CloudTest® with TouchTest™ technology, a
ground-breaking new release of the CloudTest Platform that delivers complete
functional test automation for continuous multi-touch, gesture-based mobile
applications. SOASTA also announced the SOASTA Private Device Cloud, a
low-cost way of using the devices you already own to test end user experience
from real devices around the world.
During this Live Webinar SOASTA CEO Tom Lounibos and VP of Engineering
Tal Broda will discuss and demonstrate the new CloudTest capabilities including:
- Precision capture and playback of ALL continuous touch gestures including
pan, pinch, zoom, and scroll on iPhones, iPads, iPods and Android mobile
devices - Touch-based UI testing from INSIDE the app, replacing brittle optical
recognition approaches, enabling validations based on variable values and
internal app state changes - Control of test devices via IP address, eliminating the need for tethering,
jailbreaking, or contracting with expensive 3rd party services - Private Device Clouds that support affordable testing with real devices in your
lab or across the globe
With this new release, the CloudTest Platform delivers a complete solution
for performance and functional test automation of mobile apps across real,
distributed mobile devices.
Getting Started with CloudTest Lite
Join this webinar to learn the basics of test creation, execution and analysis with CloudTest Lite. SOASTA’s expert Performance Engineers will teach you to:
• Quickly build tests with visual test creation tools
• Build, compose, run and analyze web performance test of any complexity
• Scale tests up to 100 simultaneous users
• Test using the latest technologies: AJAX, Silverlight, Flash, HTML5, and SOAP and REST web services
• Analyze tests in real-time through interactive, integrated dashboards
New Approaches to Real-Time Application Testing and Performance Monitoring: A Holiday Guide for the Retail Industry
According to a leading online retail research firm, this year’s Cyber Monday sales surpassed the $1.25 billion mark, setting the pace for the busiest online retail season in history. The key to this year’s success was deep insight into how web systems would handle realistic user traffic and where issues would occur. Firms must adopt the correct application testing and performance monitoring methodologies to ensure revenues and avoid disaster. Join SOASTA and Correlsense for this engaging webinar, which will give you an executable plan for your IT operations team. You will learn:
- Best Practices in planning, executing, and closing out your holiday performance testing campaign
- How to test and monitor mission critical applications leading into and during the holiday season
- Performance testing and monitoring techniques that will guarantee a satisfying end user experience
- Technologies which will allow you to quickly determine the most important tests to run based on what real users are doing
- Case studies and demonstrations showing how the combination of deep transactional data and cloud-based testing deliver confidence in holiday retail readiness
Where Real-Time Testing and Production Monitoring Converge
Performance matters on the Web where a few seconds makes the difference between closing a sale and losing a customer. Being prepared has been difficult in the past as advanced monitoring and testing tools were not aligned nor built for live production testing. But today, full-scale tests of production systems that deliver immediate results with integrated monitoring data can be setup and run in a matter of minutes! SOASTA and AppDynamics are breaking all the old rules with a combined solution built for speed that delivers an agile approach to performance.
Join Performance Experts Dan Bartow of SOASTA and Steve Burton of AppDynamics and witness the next generation approach in action now. This webinar includes a live demonstration of SOASTA CloudTest and AppDynamics integrated with a single view of performance. You will learn how to:
- Close the gap between testing and proactive performance management
- Implement tests with integrated monitoring in minutes
- Identify and rectify production bottlenecks before your users do
- To build, run and analyze tests with a single view of performance
- Download FREE options to get started immediately
Performance Testing Across the Lifecycle
Is performance the last thing you test? Most projects ignore performance testing until code is complete – when fixing bugs or rethinking architecture choices is most costly. In this webinar, Matt Heusser, leading author and consultant on Agile Testing, and Dan Bartow, SOASTA’s Performance Engineering VP, will discuss the challenges and benefits of focusing on performance earlier, as part of a rapid development and deployment approach for today’s websites and mobile applications. They’ll explore how to:
- Build comprehensive test plans that involve Development, Test and Operations
- Create iterative performance tests and execute them across the development cycle
- Integrate functional and performance testing in fast-paced environments
- Integrate performance testing into continuous build frameworks
- Report on “Performance Regression” and “Performance Coverage”
Matt will discuss how to best direct the planning process to cover performance in agile models, with tips and examples. Dan will illustrate how the always-agile SOASTA development team has run functional and performance tests using the CloudTest platform as part of a daily build process for years. You’ll see how CloudTest Lite can be integrated with continuous build frameworks like Hudson and Jenkins. Join these seasoned experts for an educational session that will enable you include performance testing early and often, no matter how fast your teams move.
Run More Tests and Find More Issues
Do you get so mired in the complexity of building tests, obtaining and provisioning hardware, collecting data, and analyzing results that you only have time for a few large tests? Would you rather rapidly execute a series of tests with incremental and progressive objectives? An effective performance-testing approach minimizes pre-test preparation and focuses on productive issue identification and resolution.
In this webinar, join Dr. Neil Gunther, Creator of Guerilla Capacity Planning, and Dan Bartow, SOASTA’s VP of Performance Engineering, to learn how to execute more tests that deliver actionable information in less time. You will learn:
• How to reduce time-to-test with rapid test development
• Why it is critical to run many iterative performance tests
• Why control is key when running tests in production environments
• How to collect and correlate relevant data across the entire system under test
Dr. Gunther will explore transforming performance data into actionable information. Then Dan Bartow will demonstrate how one of the world’s largest retailers is using CloudTest to execute hundreds of tests in preparation for the upcoming holiday season.
SOASTA’s New Functional Testing Capabilities
Join SOASTA’s CEO, Tom Lounibos and VP, Engineering, Tal Broda for a walk through our new functional testing capabilities.
SOASTA’s new functional testing solution – available in all CloudTest editions including its free CloudTest Lite edition – extends the popular open source Selenium testing tool with more accurate test recording, a visual test creation environment, distributed test execution, and powerful analytics. Easily integrated into continuous integration servers such as Hudson and Jenkins, SOASTA’s functional testing solution enables both quality assurance (QA) and software development teams to execute more accurate tests with unparalleled speed and agility – without programming. Functional testing is completely incorporated into the SOASTA CloudTest Platform, providing a single solution for functional and performance testing throughout the application development lifecycle.
In this webinar, Darrell Esau, one of SOASTA’s software engineers, will demonstrate:
- Fast, visual test creation
- Robust visual programming
- Accurate recording of all browser action events at the DOM level
- Playback through any browser on any platform – Mac, Windows, Linux
- Rich and extensible test validation and location strategies
- Improved test analytics with integrated performance data – comparable over time
- Easy integration into continuous test integration frameworks
Stop Cheating and Start Running Realistic Tests
Constrained by inflexible test hardware, poor tool scalability, exorbitant pricing models, and lack of real time performance information, performance testers have been forced to cheat for too long! Cloud Testing opens up elastic, full-scale load generation from global locations at affordable cost, rapid and accurate test building, and real time views of internal and external performance metrics.
- Stop removing “think times” to work around technical or license issues
- Build tests using real business workflow, not just a flood of page hits
- Run tests that preserve session states and accurate timings, end-to-end
- Inspect every component as tests run, not just from the outside-in
Getting Started with CloudTest Lite
This webinar is designed to demonstrate the features of CloudTest Lite, help new users get started, and help more experienced users learn a few new tricks. One of our most experienced performance engineers, Rob Holcomb, walks you through CloudTest Lite and offers some techniques for effectively and efficiently using the product. Rob covers how to:
- Quickly build tests with visual test creation tools
- Build, compose, run and analyze a web performance test
- Test using the latest technologies: AJAX, Silverlight, Flash, HTML5, and SOAP and REST web services
- Analyze tests in real-time through interactive, integrated dashboards
Mobile Application Performance Testing – Real Devices, Real Locations, Real Traffic
Whether your organization is developing consumer-facing mobile content, or providing mobile apps to internal employees, you are tasked with ensuring high quality, reliable applications. This means testing early and testing often. However, with the launch of new devices every month on new platforms and networks, geographically distributed users, unpredictable traffic patterns, and applications delivered through complex and distributed components, ensuring high performance is a challenge.
Seasonal Readiness – Are YOU ready for the traffic?
Whether your peak traffic comes during the traditional holiday season or you have daily traffic spikes, it’s critical to ensure your web and mobile applications can withstand increased customer demand. Poor performance is bad for business! It taints your brand image, lowers customer loyalty, and reduces revenue.
Best Practices in Performance Testing: What about the Data?
Creating and maintaining test data can be one of the most difficult tasks in performance testing. Data needs to be realistic; customer privacy must be maintained; and test transactions need to be identified and handled properly so payments aren’t processed and actual orders aren’t shipped. The extent of the test data required depends on the coverage of the test scenarios. Testing simple browsing behavior requires no test data. Testing a shopping experience through purchase may require creating accounts, placing orders, and sending requests off to third party systems.
Performance Testing Best Practices: Performance Testing in Production
Testing in the lab is significantly different from production testing in terms of hardware, scale, configuration and activity at any given time (batch jobs, shared services, etc.) The complexity of web applications today makes extrapolating results from lab tests inaccurate and misleading. Furthermore, marketing campaigns and social media can drive unpredictable spikes in traffic to your applications.
New Performance Testing Best Practices: Testing Mobile Applications
Whether you are a mobile pure-play, using mobile devices to deliver your content, or using mobile devices as an alternative channel for your applications, you know how hard it is to do performance testing. Every month, new devices are available, applications must continue to add features to compete, and the sheer number of mobile users makes predicting demand almost impossible.
Best Practices in Performance Testing: Issues Uncovered as Scale Increases
This webinar will focus on what issues are uncovered as test scale increases. After working with hundreds of customers and executing thousands of tests, the SOASTA Performance Engineering team will share with you what problems are uncovered at different levels of performance testing. Dan Bartow, former performance engineer at Intuit and ATG, and Brad Johnson, former Borland and Mercury Interactive executive, will share their insights, real customer case stories and demonstrate similar findings.
The Best Practices in Performance Testing series is designed to share with you best practices developed by our performance engineering team as they work with world-class customers of all sizes.
Performance Testing Best Practices: What is Cloud Testing
What is Cloud Testing? focuses on what cloud testing is and how it can deliver scalable testing quickly and affordably by using the virtually infinite cloud resources that are available on demand. In this webinar, the SOASTA performance engineering team demonstrate a LIVE performance test using cloud resources.
Introducing CloudTest Pro
CloudTest Pro is SOASTA’s enterprise appliance for fast, affordable testing of web and mobile applications at scale. With CloudTest Pro, your testing teams have full control to build, execute and analyze performance tests, with the flexibility to launch tests on a single platform that seamlessly integrates internal hardware with private and public cloud infrastructure and test community resources.
Gilt Groupe: Preparing for Peak Performance
The combination of Amazon Web Services and SOASTA’s CloudTest has helped Gilt Groupe bring an optimum web experience to their customers every day! In this webinar you’ll learn how Gilt Groupe was able to quickly respond to changing business conditions (a new partnership) to maintain a great user experience.
Why Hallmark Loved its Website on Valentines Day
Throughout the year Hallmark uses the CloudTest appliance to test the performance of their website. To prepare for spikes associated with e-card holidays such as Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day, they take those same tests to the Cloud to test externally and at scale.
