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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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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Oracle Apps Tutorial: How to Automate Oracle EBS Patch Testing

One of the universal facts with Oracle E-Business Suite or any other large software package is that you eventually will need to apply patches. The Oracle E-Business Suite patches vary in size and scope. From the small one-off patches (also called an Emergency Patch) to a large upgrade patch, you will need to determine two

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Testing web applications across different browsers and operating systems.

You have a client server application used through the web and another used through a fat client. Every month you need to install required automatic updates on different Windows Operating Systems and some application patches. Your users use the application on different Operating Systems and use different Internet browsers. You need to make sure that

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