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For top quality , easy to use, cost effective load testing tools for web applications try Neotys NeoLoad 3.1 released today, the first test solution on the market to incorporate support for new push technologies such as Adobe RTMP, Ajax Push and Java serialization. NeoLoad 3.1 also offers new features to improve the design, execution and analysis of load test campaigns.

Previous versions of NeoLoad supported major RIA technologies such as Ajax, Adobe Flex, GWT and Silverlight. NeoLoad release 3.1 takes the next step in testing web applications by allowing users to load test the latest and most advanced development technologies, just months after their release. NeoLoad now includes support for the newest “Push” data exchange protocols such as such Adobe RTMP, LightStreamer and ICEfaces. These innovative protocols provide greater fluidity and interaction with web applications that integrate rich content (flash, video, sound) as they offer enhanced capabilities for data exchange with better interoperability.

Screen shot example: Description record your test scenarios to create different virtual user business profiles. NeoLoad automatically handles all your application’s parameters without the need for scripts.

Heres some of Neotys NeoLoad 3.1 key features:

Parameters framework: automates the extraction and injection of dynamic parameters within the application. The engine variabilization feature has been improved to include more comprehensive injection rules, support for binary protocols and the provision of pre-configured frameworks.

• Shared Elements: provides a set of business transactions and a pool for all virtual profiles. In this latest version, when changes are made to initial script, updates occur automatically.

• Thresholds alerts: sets monitoring thresholds for a very large number of parameters (CPU, servers, memory,) and automatically generates alerts as a threshold is met. This feature helps detect anomalies and extract key information during trouble shooting. This feature helps detect software or hardware resources which are becoming saturated during a load test. This proactive monitoring saves time in finding and alleviating bottlenecks.

NeoLoad 3.1 is available now and can be tested free for 30 days with a trial version download from the Neotys website. The cost for a 250 virtual user permanent license with the FLEX protocol is $22,826. Monthly rental for the same configuration costs $6,024. Additional pricing is also available on the website.

About Neotys www.neotys.com

Software Research Inc., maker of the widely used eValid browser based web application suite, has announced a new Server Load Performance Testing tool for AJAX-based web applications.

Using eValid’s simultaneous launched test-enabled live web browsers, eValid can generate server load up to 1,000 browser users per machine and expand the scalability of load testing in the hundred of thousands, using computer cloud resources in sustained tests for many hours and at very low costs.

“Because eValid is built in a browser, when it runs a test on an AJAX application it appears completely real to the application servers. Running large numbers of eValid instances — we call them Browser Users (BUs) — using compute-cloud resources gives you the Holy Grail of AJAX Performance Testing: Real Users. You get high loads and you don’t have to spend a fortune to do it,” said Edward Miller, President of Software Research and eValid’s Chief Architect.

An upcoming Webinar “Cloud-Based AJAX Performance Testing“, scheduled for Wednesday, 23 June 2010, will show how an eValid user can record tests from life, make a few key script modifications to assure that they are LoadTest safe, lift them in 100-wide scenario partitions, and then run the 100-wide partitions on multiple very-large cloud-computers, collect data as the imposed server load ramps up, and display scenario-wide end-user perspective performance results.

Doloto is an AJAX application optimization tool, especially useful for large and complex Web 2.0 applications that contain a lot of code, such as Bing Maps, Hotmail, etc.  Doloto analyzes AJAX application workloads and automatically performs code splitting of existing large Web 2.0 applications.  After being processed by Doloto, an application will initially transfer only the portion of code necessary for application initialization.

The rest of the application’s code is replaced by short stubs — their actual function code is transferred lazily in the background or, at the latest, on-demand on first execution.  Since code download is interleaved with application execution, users can start interacting with the Web application much sooner, without waiting for the code that implements extra, unused features.

In our experiments across a number of AJAX applications and network conditions, Doloto reduced the amount of initial downloaded JavaScript code by over 40%, or hundreds of kilobytes resulting in startup often faster by 30-40%, depending on network conditions.

For future information on this tool including a demonstration video click here.

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FriendlyGhost is an advanced debugging tool for Macromedia Flash Platform and AJAX Innovations which enables developers to debug ActionScript and JavaScript applications more effectively.

With its highly integrated, component based client server application model and intuitive user interface, FriendlyGhost lets you visually debug your Flash and AJAX applications in real-time.  Its Multi-tab environment and multi-level trace filtering with color coded debug messages provide you with total control on every aspect of debugging and testing of your applications.

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Klaros-Testmanagement

We’ve added a new tool to Testertools.com, Klaros-Testmanagement.

Klaros-Testmanagement is an Ajax-based web application for organizing and managing the test process in software development projects.

Klaros-Testmanagement supports the collection of test data and the creation and assignment of test plans as well as interfacing with issue management systems and extensive reporting capabilities

Version 2.0 is now available and contains

• Test cases and test results
• Tracability to requirements and issues
• Versioning and historical data management
• Project specific configuration
• Graphical and tabular reporting

Klaros-Testmanagement is developed by verit Informationssysteme