Load Test Services Shopper's Guide (Podcast)
If you are charged with identifying a load testing service for your organization, this article and accompanying podcast poses eight questions to ask yourself and your vendors before buying. Includes a description of types of load test delivery: SaaS, Cloud and Behind-the-Firewall.
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Performance Validation of Oracle Apps over Citrix Distributed Access
Business and technical challenges of performance testing Oracle HR deployed in a Citrix environment: a case study with M.A. Mortenson construction.
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Cloud Now?
Is Cloud Computing a reality today? What are the realistic options?
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Resource Monitoring: Bellwether Metrics for Diagnosing Performance Bottlenecks
Key system resource metrics -- and tools -- to monitor during a load test that will guide you in bottleneck diagnosis.
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Load Test Services Shopper's Guide
If you are charged with identifying a load testing service for your organization, this article and accompanying podcast poses eight questions to ask yourself and your vendors before buying. Includes a description of types of load test delivery: SaaS, Cloud and Behind-the-Firewall.
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Performance Validation of Oracle HR over Citrix Distributed Access
Using LoadRunner with the Citrix Add-in to test performance on Oracle E-Business HR deployed over Citrix.
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Performance Testing a New Oracle 11i Manufacturing Implementation
Methodology and benefits of performance testing a new Oracle Apps 11i implementation; a case study at MKS Instruments.
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Bottlenecks Exposed
Software Test & Performance magazine article on finding and fixing performance bottlenecks
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Performance Testing Web Applications with Open Source Tools
Basic methodology and techniques for using OpenSTA to load test web applications.
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Private Cloud Virtualization
VMware - Amway case study showing how private cloud technology comes into play at the company's remote datacenters, which are spread around the globe.
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Sample Load Test Report -- MyOnlineTickets.com
Sample report based on a project conducted on an on-line theater ticket purchasing application.
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Hands-on Guide to Virtualization
The five technology choices and a proven migration process that delivers the financial benefits of virtualization.
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Load Testing a 3-Channel EDI & MQ Messaging System
Experience report on pushing the boundaries of performance testing tools.
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Performance Testing MACESS EXP
Methodology and benefits of performance testing a healthcare CRM EXP MACESS upgrade; a Tufts Health Plan case study.
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Load Testing the SAP NetWeaver Portal
Load Testing the SAP NetWeaver Portal for a major defense contractor with 70,000 employees, using LoadRunner and JMeter.
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Managing Quality in your ERP Project: 12 Mistakes to Avoid & Best Practices to Adopt
Managing Quality in your ERP Project: 12 Mistakes to Avoid & Best Practices to Adopt
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Automated Testing of Oracle Applications 11i - White Paper
An automated functional testing primer for Oracle Apps 11i Financials & Manufacturing, discussing the challenges and benefits of a disciplined automated approach, using the HP testing tools.
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Tool: Data Center Location Selection Workbook
Practical Solution: Data Center Location Selection
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Information Security Policy from a Web System Perspective
Understanding the basics of how a legal security policy is actualized in an internet-facing web system.
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Oracle Advanced Benefits for Open Enrollment
The objective of this performance test is to validate whether or not dedicated Oracle servers hosted at Oracle-On-Demand can support the 2-week open-enrollment for approximately 1,000 employees, against a normal load of Time Entry and Payroll reporting activity.
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Using Open Source Tools for Business Critical Monitoring
There's plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt regarding Open Source tools being pumped into the marketplace that could easily dissuade IT teams from using them to monitor applications in their enterprise and commercial data centers. It's been said, "You get what you pay for: robust monitoring solutions ought to cost between $200K to $2 million" or "Open Source tools are only for geeks - way too hard to install, configure and maintain since there's no support for them." In fact, Open Source tools are viable, valuable tools to IT teams that need to find ways to reduce costs while managing a growing, complex data center environment and escalating end user expectations.
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3 Examples of Testing Reliability
Three examples of testing system reliability under load during component failover testing and longevity testing.
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Bottlenecks Exposed
The Most Frequently Found Performance Problems -- and How To Nail Them! Discusses what system resources to measure to correlate with performance times.
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Testing an Oracle Apps 11i Upgrade: Strategies and Techniques
Strategies & techniques for regression testing of an Oracle Applications 11i Upgrade at H.M.Huber, using WinRunner and TestDirector.
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Tool: Guide to Selecting a High Availability Data Center
Get our Excel-based tool to help you choose which data center will deliver the availability needed to meet your performance benchmark goals.
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Testing Healthcare Applications for ICD 10
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced it intends to delay implementation of the highly anticipated ICD-10 code set beyond the October 1, 2013 deadline. However, the agency did not specify exactly how long the delay would occur. Industry analysts agree: the delay doesn't mean healthcare companies should abandon plans to prepare for the transition. With most organizations having more than 20 affected applications, there are many system upgrades and replacements underway, which drive a heightened need for performance testing services.
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Managing Quality in your ERP Project: 12 Mistakes to Avoid (white paper)
Unique challenges managing quality in an ERP project; 12 mistakes to recognize and strategies for avoiding the (full white paper).
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Conveying Performance Test Results with Data Visualization
Tools & techniques for creating and presenting content-rich graphs that effectively communicate results of performance tests with LoadRunner and OpenSTA.
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Critical Incidents in Effective Performance Testing
Two salient critical incidents that have fundamentally changed how I conduct performance testing.
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Load Testing PeopleSoft ERP
A case study on load testing the HR Capital Management module of the all-web PeopleSoft8 at AT&T Wireless.
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Web Speed Stress Testing
A 5-Step Methodology for stress testing Web applications.
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Testing Oracle Apps 11i
Techniques for functional testing of Oracle Apps 11i with WinRunner and TestDirector.
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Practical Solution: Guide to Selecting a High Availability Data Center
Mentora "Practical Solutions" papers provide insight and concrete suggestions to address technical issues of installing, maintaining and supporting high-availability web-enabled production applications.
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InformationWeek eCommerce Article
Article from InformationWeek about performance issues with eCommerce sites on Black Friday 2000.
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Data Center Assessment Checklist
The Mentora team has compiled this Data Center Assessment Checklist to help you evaluate, compare and select data center facilities to meet your hosting, business continuity and disaster recovery needs.
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Breaking Out: Load Testing With Java-Based JMeter
Using open source JMeter to performance test a mobile phone download manager.
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3 Pillars of Software Quality
Testing Software for correct Function, robust Performance, and Security.
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Load Testing with JMeter
A practical experience of applying JMeter to load test a cellular ringtone download application.
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When Load Tests Are Not Equal
Eight questions to ask your vendors when comparing load testing services.
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OpenSTA Performance Testing
Updated mini-tutorial on using OpenSTA to load test web applications.
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OpenSTA Performance Testing
Mini-tutorial on using OpenSTA to load test web applications.
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Managing Quality in your ERP Project: 12 Mistakes to Avoid (Abstract)
This paper shines the spotlight on key mistakes that ERP implementations should avoid. They've been distilled from multiple ERP testing projects as part of global enterprise implementations.
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