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What Rackspace?s OpenStack Announcement Means to SOASTA Customers
2012-04-18 21:21:00 In case you weren?t able to attend Monday?s Rackspace OpenStack Design Summit in San Francisco, here are the highlights: On the heels of rival Citrix Systems’ CloudStack announcement, Rackspace released its production-ready next generation cloud powered by OpenStack. OpenStack is the open source cloud operating system defined by developers and organizations including NASA, IBM, Red Hat, Read more… More About: Customers , Announcement
Evolution vs. Revolution: What will it take for testing join the 21st Centu
2012-04-05 00:44:00 Put aside, for a moment, the extraordinary events of the last 12 months. Then hear me out on this one, which falls into the category ?It Generally Goes Like This.? While great ideas ignite the flame for change, real change, meaningful change comes from the advancement of an original thought. Here?s an example: Henry Ford did Read more… More About: Evolution , Testing , Join , Revolution
It?s Springtime For Mobile Application Testing
2012-02-09 16:34:00 In the spring of 2008 Cloud Computing was the featured ?flower? that dominated the conversation in the technology flowerbed. With Spring 2010 arrived a new flower, Dev/Ops, with its Agile methods, practices, and integration between software development and IT operations. Now, in the spring of 2012, another flower is blooming: Mobile Testing . Testing, once called the Read more… More About: Springtime
?Minority Report? Defining Today?s User Interface
2012-01-18 18:44:00 Think back to Steven Spielberg?s 2002 classic, ?Minority Report ?, the movie that explored the future of human/machine interface in 2054. It was both cool and exciting, and it was also years away from reality. Or was it? Here we are, now ten years removed, and some of these concepts, gesture-based applications (everywhere), hovering gestures (Apple Read more… More About: Today , User , Minority Report , Interface
Open or Closed? Technology?s version of The Beatles vs. The Stones
2011-12-20 16:02:00 Your preference for one band over the other speaks volumes about your personality. Do you prefer the band with blues in its DNA or the one with more pop standards in its repertoire? This debate was enough to divide men born only a few years apart. A similar debate has raged on in the Silicon Valley Read more… More About: Technology , Open , Beatles , The Beatles
Growth or Liquidity: The Funding Question of 2012
2011-12-12 00:58:00 On Friday, a little-known e-commerce payments company named Klarna raised a massive $155 million round of funding from DST Global and General Atlantic. Its previous round was only $9 million, in May 2010, when it was discovered by Sequoia Capital and superstar partner Michael Moritz took a board seat. Of this investment Moritz says, ?This Read more… More About: Question , Funding , Growth
The Dawn of a New Shopping Season
2011-11-29 20:10:00 As Thanksgiving Eve, Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, the momentum is palpable as eager shoppers gear up to take advantage of all those well-advertised holidays sales. For many retailers, as much as 60% of their annual revenues are dependent on the next six weeks. No mistakes are permissible; inventories have to be stocked, clerks Read more… More About: Shopping , Season , Dawn
The Day Apple Lost its Cool
2011-11-23 05:16:00 Last week I concluded our company meeting by playing Apple ?s 1997 Here?s to the Crazy Ones commercial. I chose not to use the original version narrated by Richard Dreyfuss and instead went with the version that Steve Jobs himself narrated. It has always inspired me and I wanted to inspire our team. It also highlights Read more… More About: Lost , Cool
The Future of Testing: Evolve or Elimination. It?s a Choice.
2011-11-17 23:52:00 I?ve been seeing a lot of tweets and blogging around the future role of the Software Tester. Some have suggested that, with all the recent advancements made in test automation, the test community may face employment challenges. I strongly disagree. That said, rapid technology innovation necessitates that users adapt and evolve, and the test community Read more… More About: Future , Testing , The Future , Elimination , Choice
Mobile Apps Will Require Application Performance Management 2.0
2011-11-09 17:49:00 Application Performance Management (APM) 1.0 was defined years ago by Gartner as application performance monitoring for client server applications. Players such as CA, Wily, IBM, HP and BMC dominated the landscape, which was characterized by delivering real-time ?status? of how a customer?s infrastructure was running in production. Then, as new web applications started appearing around Read more… More About: Mobile , Performance Management
Web UI/Ajax Testing Ships!
2008-01-29 20:53:00 SOASTA just announced that Web UI/Ajax Testing is now shipping as part of SOASTA Concerto. We now have a complete, totally integrated, professional solution for testing Web 2.0 applications. Every layer of the web application. Every testing type. As I have discussed before, all enterprise software is on a 10 year journey to be rewritten ... More About: Ships
What?s Going On?
2007-10-22 20:28:00 In my last post, ?Web Testing Is Network Testing,? I began a conversation. Modern Web applications are difficult to test because there are so many events occurring at many levels. Application behavior is effected by packet events that can be extremely subtle. So, how do you know ?what?s going on?? Sometimes it can be extremely ... More About: Going , Goin
Web Testing is Network Testing
2007-10-16 19:32:00 Two weeks ago I gave a speech at AjaxWorld West 2007. My session was about best practices in Ajax testing. There is a theme that runs through all of the work SOASTA is doing to build our products: ?Web Testing Is Network Testing?. It is not possible in this generation to test the UI only ...
The New sBox - Web Load Testing in a Box
2007-10-08 18:54:00 Last week SOASTA announced the sBox Load Testing Appliance. Our idea, from the beginning is that: 1. All enterprise applications will move to the Web 2. Therefore, all enterprise testing will become Web testing 3. The market needs new players with new technology to address Web testing 4. ... More About: Web Development
Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) - New York, NY
2007-08-23 19:39:00 8:30 a.m. Waiting for the conference to start here at Google ?s New York office. I flew across the country yesterday with Jason Huggins (inventor of Selenium). Wonderful person whose creative spark has already forever changed how UI testing will be done. I am really ... More About: Test , New-York
In Line to Get an iPhone
2007-06-30 00:58:00 I am #28 in line at the Apple Store in Stanford Shopping Center. I have been here since 10:00 AM this morning. Why come here? Because Stanford did not allow people to camp out overnight so I thought I had a good chance here. That turned out to be right. We will see. Why am I ... More About: Iphone , Line
Internet In Your Pocket ? What Does this Mean for Web Testers?
2007-06-13 21:09:00 Steve Jobs announced the other day that Apple will allow third party applications on the iPhone via Safari + Ajax. Real Intern et applications delivered in the browser on a mobile phone. This is a continuation and confirmation of a hot trend ? all enterprise applications are moving to the Internet. Enterprise applications will be available ... More About: Pocket , Este
Platform-specific performance issues in Java?
2007-06-05 16:28:00 At SOASTA, we do all of our development using J2EE, on Macs (Robert Scoble wrote about this a while back). One of the reasons we do this is for portability — we can write our code on a Mac and run it on a Linux server.Recently we were surprised by a platform specific-performance issue.We ... More About: Performance , Java , Issues , Form , Specific
Testing ? Or The Lack Thereof
2007-04-24 19:46:00 Load testing has been in the news quite a bit over the last few weeks as Intuit and RIM (owners of the very popular Blackberry device) made headlines with performance problems that they both blamed on inadequate testing. Intuit acknowledged that ? . . . hundreds of thousands of TurboTax customers were unable to file their ... More About: Testing , Here , Sting , Test , There
The Importance of Web UI / Ajax Testing
2007-03-26 21:06:00 Last Tuesday, SOASTA announced plans to extend SOASTA Concerto to support Web UI/ Ajax testing. When this capability is delivered in Q3 of this year, SOASTA Concerto will support automated testing of every important Web protocol (SOAP, REST in many variations, XML-RPC, JSON, HTTP, messaging middleware and Web UI/Ajax). Why Are We Doing This? Our strategy from ... More About: Testing , Port , Sting , Test
Jumping Off a Cliff; Believing You Can Fly
2007-03-08 19:57:00 SOASTA launched its SOASTA Concerto Web testing service on Thursday, March 1, 2007. We also completely revamped our website in order to emerge completely from stealth mode and make it easy for potential customers to understand our product offerings. The title of this post comes from a column I read many years ago in the ... More About: Jump , Cliff , Ping , Ving , Jumping
DEMO 07 What Was Cool & What Was Important
2007-02-05 21:22:00 A lot of attention is paid every year to the winners of the DEMO God awards each year and this year was no different. Well, like everyone else I have a perspective on this. There certainly were a lot of ?cool? products and great presentations. Looking through what we saw to the ideas and concepts ... More About: Cool , Port , What , Hat , Demo
DEMO 07 Launch for SOASTA Concerto
2007-02-05 20:59:00 On Wednesday, January 31, 2007 SOASTA presented on stage at the DEMO 07 Conference. Everything worked (yeah!) and we got great press coverage from ZDNet, Network World and CIO. DEMO 07 has the official video up on their site. Our thanks to the DEMO production staff. They made a very stressful demonstration a lot ... More About: Concert , Launch , Demo , Once , Concerto
Testing Web Software: Why is it so Difficult?
2007-01-16 23:36:00 Today, I want to start the discussion about why it is so difficult to quickly and accurately test web services and applications. SOASTA was founded to provide a new solution to this problem and we believe that we have a lot to say on this subject. Let?s start at a high level. Web testing is difficult ... More About: Software , Cult , Testing , War , Ware
Follow Up From Yesterday
2006-12-22 20:43:00 In a follow up to my post yesterday, today Dave Winer makes his case here. In a great summary post on the discussion, Tim Bray posts here. An excerpt: ?The Arguments Are Over · There used to be an argument about whether platform-neutral, language-neutral data formats were important, or whether distributed objects were the right answer. That?s ... More About: Yesterday , Este , From Yesterday
Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom
2006-12-21 20:56:00 Google replaced its SOAP API with its AJAX Search UI. As part of the discussion of Google?s move, an intense debate on the merits of SOAP, XML-RPC, REST, JSON and XML has started on Dave Winer?s blog, Scripting News. If you are involved in developing web applications this is an incredible discussion thread and well ... More About: Flowers , Sand , Lower , Thousand , Lowe
Developers and SOA Tools
2006-12-11 23:33:00 In a very interesting blog posting titled, ?Develop er s Unsatisfied with SOA Tool s ,? Steve Graegert says, ?Currently, SOA is everywhere.? Developers are complaining that the tools for SOA are inadequate. It is a function of age, but I have seen this problem before. I started my programming life in 1972 writing COBOL and IBM Assembler for a ...
SAP and SOA
2006-12-07 19:30:00 Yesterday, ZDNet?s Joe McKendrick commented on SAP?s enterprise SOA strategy, ?SAP Promises to Deliver ?Big SOA? ? Then What?? ?SAP’s intentions are ambitious ? Agassi plans to move 10,000 customers running on SAP’s SOA-enabling NetWeaver middleware platform within the year. Agassi told Dan that by that time SAP expects to have reached ...
Robert Scoble Visits SOASTA
2006-12-06 19:16:00 On October 19th, SOASTA was visited by Robe rt Scoble, creator of the Scobleizer blog and the new video blog, The Scoble Show. The resulting video podcasts appeared on the The Scoble Show the Monday of Thanksgiving week. Robert also blogged about us on Scobleizer. Robert proved to be exactly the guy you read about on ... More About: Visi , Visit , Robert Scoble |
