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EZ-Metrix® is a source code metrics utility with a difference!
It’s like a tape measure for your software…

EZ Metrix Source Code Counter with an easy Internet-based interface, multiple language support and flexible licensing features, you will be up and running in minutes with the EZ-Metrix code counter.  Measure software size from virtually all text-based languages and from any platform or operating system with the same utility.  Source code metrics are stored in our internal database and may be exported for further analysis.  The EZ-Metrix LOC counter supports software development estimates, productivity measurement, schedule forecasting and quality analysis (CMMI, ISO).

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Understand 2.0 is the new version of our product for source code analysis, reverse engineering, code visualization and calculating code metrics. In use by tens of thousands of users world wide, it is a sophisticated tool especially valuable for maintaining impossibly large or complex amounts of source code. Multi-million SLOC projects are common with our users. There are three editions, Engineer, Pro and Analyst, with feature sets for different types of users

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Size is one of the most important attributes of a software product. It is not only the key indicator of software cost and time but also a base unit to derive other metrics for project status and software quality measurement. Size metric is used as an essential input for most of cost estimation models such as COCOMO, SLIM, SEER-SEM and Price-S.

Although source lines of code or SLOC is a widely accepted sizing metric, there is a lack of standard that enforces a consistency of what and how to count SLOC. Ensuring consistency across independent organizations in the rules used to count software cost code is often difficult to achieve. To that end, the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) has developed and released a code counting toolset called CodeCount to support sizing software code for historical data collection and reporting purposes. This toolset is a collection of tools designed to automate the collection of source code sizing information. It implements the popular code counting standards published by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and adapted by COCOMO. Logical and physical SLOC are among the metrics generated by the toolset.

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It is important to test your Broadband Internet connection at different times. Your ISP may advertise a high Broadband Bandwidth, but you may only get that advertised Broadband Bandwidth at certain times of the week. Use internetfrogs Broadband Speed Testing Tool to gauge you access speed several times a week.

Speed Test Example Screen shot.

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TCMLite is a free, simple, highly configurable test case management tool.  Use TCMLite to design, write, and execute your test cases.  Your entire test team can concurrently access the same test case repository (XLS file) using Excel’s “shared workbooks” feature.

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TestLog offers an integrated management environment in which you will create and manage, not just your test cases, but your entire test plan.

Free download and three month trial

Download TestLog for a free extended evaluation period of 90 days, including free email support. This is the full version of TestLog without any features disabled, or restrictions.

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Quick Performance Monitor is an easy-to-use performance monitoring
utility with both auto and manual log modes. Log files are automatically maintained with time stamp appended to each log file name and each log record is also time stamped.

Comments can be attached with
log data when logs are created in manual mode, which provides great
flexibility when generating log files. You can easily plot the logged

data into Excel spread sheet file to see the trend of recorded data.
Quick Performance Monitor can log all performance counters and objects that Windows Performance Monitor provides, and it is much easier to use and much more flexible. Two default settings are dedicated to measure memory leak and memory fragmentation.

Quick Performance Monitor will make you much more productive in the process of monitoring software performance.

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What is LMbench?

* Suite of simple, portable benchmarks

* Compares different systems performance

* Results available for most major vendors (SUN, HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, PCs including 200 Mhz P6’s)

* Free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

* Bandwidth benchmarks

o Cached file read
o Memory copy (bcopy)
o Memory read
o Memory write
o Pipe
o TCP

* Latency benchmarks

o Context switching.

o Networking: connection establishment, pipe, TCP, UDP, and RPC hot potatoo File system creates and deletes.
o Process creation.

o Signal handling
o System call overhead
o Memory read latency

* Miscellaneous

Download LMbench documentation

• January ‘96 Usenix paper (76K, gzipped)
• June ‘98 Usenix paper on Mhz (239K, gzipped)
• Manual pages

IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.

Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor’s computer platform. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations:

Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read, pread ,mmap, aio_read, aio_write

While computers are typically purchased with an application in mind it is also likely that over time the application mix will change. Many vendors have enhanced their operating systems to perform well for some frequently used applications. Although this accelerates the I/O for those few applications it is also likely that the system may not perform well for other applications that were not targeted by the operating system. An example of this type of enhancement is: Database.

Many operating systems vendors have tested and tuned the filesystem so it works well with databases. While the database users are happy, the other users may not be so happy as the entire system may be giving all of the system resources to the database users at the expense of all other users. As time rolls on the system administrator may decide that a few more office automation tasks could be shifted to this machine.

The load may now shift from a random reader application (database) to a sequential reader. The users may discover that the machine is very slow when running this new application and become dissatisfied with the decision to purchase this platform. By using Iozone to get a broad filesystem performance coverage the buyer is much more likely to see any hot or cold spots and pick a platform and operating system that is more well balanced.

Benchmark Features:

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practicalecommerce.com have released a video article on Testing with Different Browsers.

Test on Different Browsers

There are many widely used web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, as well as dozens of mobile browsers. But, not all browsers, and versions of those browsers, work the same; and a merchant’s website may not look or function identically on each one. Thankfully, there are many browser compatibility-testing tools othe web, including a free one called Browser Shots.

To find out more read www.practicalecommerce.com/podcasts/episode/1466-Test-on-Different-Browsers