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Automai Testing – FSLogix vs. Citrix Profile Management

Automai provides tools designed to help administrators and architects of EUC environments assess existing environments, plan and deploy new environments, and continuously monitor and improve deployed environments. Automai conducts regular testing on EUC solutions as part of its commitment to the EUC community. Many profile management solutions are available to the EUC sector; the two

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The Killer App Finale

Last week I posted The Killer App, the story of a real software project with a cliff-hanger, pick-a-path ending.  It’s time to close the loop. “The Killer App” was a project that was not just late, but hopeless; a claims processing system that could not process a single claim end-to-end.  When I suggested that we

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More On The Test Competition

Over the past two weeks I have spent a great deal of time doing research, gathering resources, and judging interest in an on-line test competition in software testing.  My conclusion is kind of like Nike.

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A Tale of Two Performance Projects

Imagine for a moment two companies have an identical problem – the website is slow.  Perhaps this is a huge problem; the company bet it’s future on a new product, that customers sign up for on the web, and performance is bad enough that people are abandoning the site and going to the competition.  In

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System Shenanigans

Last week I put out the Black Swan In The Enterprise, which argued that most uptime planning comes from the ability to predict the future — and sometimes, the future is wildly different that you would have predicted.  Things fall apart; the centre does not hold — and they fall apart very differently than what

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Yugo Testing

Recently, I was invited to observe a colleague’s monthly stress test exercise. There is a large room filled with mangers and technicians, experts in various aspects of the system, general network specialists, application specialists, customer support representatives and a collection of people with backgrounds in various aspects of testing.

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Deviant Deviation

A few years ago, I worked a performance project.  You probably know the type:  Customers were upset, executives were upset, technical staff were asking for specific direction (and not getting much) … nobody was happy. The code was already in production, and there was no obvious ‘roll it back to the previous version that is

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(Just Starting to) Analyze Performance Data

If you’ve done any performance testing, or even seen a demo, you are probably familiar with the “big line graph” that is created as the test runs. A Typical Response Time Graph The typical scenario is simple:  Have the load tool start with one simultaneous user running a script.  Then add a new user, say, every thirty

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