Archive for the 'Performance Testing' Category

Jul 22 2008

iTouch, iPanic?

Published by Kenneth Newquist under Accessibility, Performance Testing, Technology, Web Design

We got a heads up from our Apple rep today that there are a few hundred students headed our way this fall with spiffy new Apple computers … and the free iPod Touches that came with them. Now this is very cool for them (and far cooler than the last-gen nano that came with my MacBook Pro last year) but the sudden arrival of a bunch of new wireless handheld devices has us scrambling a bit. Will the wireless network accommodate them (short answer: yes, with plenty of room to spare). Will our web applications work with them? (probably).

Fortunately, we got an iPod Touch in the office for testing purposes, and I’ll be firing that puppy up ASAP to make sure everything’s working the way it should.

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Apr 02 2007

Badboy: Easy-to-use front end for JMeter

Published by Kenneth Newquist under Performance Testing, Software, Technology

My quest for load-testing tools for Banner Self-Service has led me to Badboy, an tool that allows you to record your actions as you browse a web site, and then save those actions — along with variables and programming logic — to a test plan you can then run in the open source load-tester Jmeter.

You can also run the tests directly within Badboy, but I found this didn’t work so well with Banner Self-Service; I’m not sure why — it worked fine with Moodle. The exported Jmeter test plans also worked fine in my initial tests; I’m now working on setting up a more complicated test with a hundred or so users.

I came across the mention of Badboy on the Luminis Developers Network, which includes posts dealing with the Luminis portal, Banner Self Service and Internet Native Banner.

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