Load Test Services Shopper's Guide (Podcast)
If you are charged with identifying a load testing service for your organization, this article and accompanying podcast poses eight questions to ask yourself and your vendors before buying. Includes a description of types of load test delivery: SaaS, Cloud and Behind-the-Firewall.
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Performance Validation of Oracle Apps over Citrix Distributed Access
Business and technical challenges of performance testing Oracle HR deployed in a Citrix environment: a case study with M.A. Mortenson construction.
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Resource Monitoring: Bellwether Metrics for Diagnosing Performance Bottlenecks
Key system resource metrics -- and tools -- to monitor during a load test that will guide you in bottleneck diagnosis.
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Cloud Now?
Is Cloud Computing a reality today? What are the realistic options?
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Performance Testing a New Oracle Manufacturing Implementation
Methodology and benefits of performance testing a new Oracle Apps implementation; a case study at MKS Instruments.
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Load Test Services Shopper's Guide
If you are charged with identifying a load testing service for your organization, this article and accompanying podcast poses eight questions to ask yourself and your vendors before buying. Includes a description of types of load test delivery: SaaS, Cloud and Behind-the-Firewall.
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Load Testing Oracle E-Business R12 Sales & Service
Tips and techniques for using LoadRunner to performance test Oracle Apps R12.
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Performance Validation of Oracle HR over Citrix Distributed Access
Using LoadRunner with the Citrix Add-in to test performance on Oracle E-Business HR deployed over Citrix.
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Bottlenecks Exposed
Software Test & Performance
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Load Testing a 3-Channel EDI & MQ Messaging System
Experience report on pushing the boundaries of performance testing tools.
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Private Cloud Virtualization
VMware technology also comes into play at the company's remote datacenters, which are spread all around the globe.
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Performance Testing EXP MACESS
Methodology and benefits of performance testing a healthcare CRM EXP MACESS upgrade; a Tufts Health Plan case study.
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Automated Testing of Oracle Applications 11i - White Paper
An automated functional testing primer for Oracle Apps 11i Financials & Manufacturing, discussing the challenges and benefits of a disciplined automated approach, using the Mercury tools.
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Tool: Data Center Location Selection Workbook
Practical Solution: Data Center Location Selection
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3 Examples of Testing Reliability
Three examples of testing system reliability under load during component failover testing and longevity testing.
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Load Testing the SAP NetWeaver Portal
Load Testing the SAP NetWeaver Portal for a major defense contractor with 70,000 employees, using LoadRunner and JMeter.
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Performance Testing Web Applications with Open Source Tools
Basic methodology and techniques for using OpenSTA to load test web applications.
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Web Speed Stress Testing
A 5-Step Methodology for stress testing Web applications.
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Bottlenecks Exposed
The Most Frequently Found Performance Problems -- and How To Nail Them! Discusses what system resources to measure to correlate with performance times.
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Conveying Performance Test Results with Data Visualization
Tools & techniques for creating and presenting content-rich graphs that effectively communicate results of performance tests with LoadRunner and OpenSTA.
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Critical Incidents in Effective Performance Testing
Two salient critical incidents that have fundamentally changed how I conduct performance testing.
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Load Testing PeopleSoft ERP
A case study on load testing the HR Capital Management module of the all-web PeopleSoft8 at AT&T Wireless.
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OpenSTA Performance Testing
Updated mini-tutorial on using OpenSTA to load test web applications.
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Testing an Oracle Apps 11i Upgrade: Strategies and Techniques
Strategies & techniques for regression testing of an Oracle Applications 11i Upgrade at H.M.Huber, using WinRunner and TestDirector.
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Managing Quality in your ERP Project: 12 Mistakes to Avoid & Best Practices to Adopt
Managing Quality in your ERP Project: 12 Mistakes to Avoid & Best Practices to Adopt
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Tool: Data Center Facility Selection Workbook
Tool: Data Center Facility Selection Workbook
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InformationWeek eCommerce Article
Article from InformationWeek about performance issues with eCommerce sites on Black Friday 2000.
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3 Pillars of Software Quality
Testing Software for correct Function, robust Performance, and Security.
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Managing Quality in your ERP Project: 12 Mistakes to Avoid
Unique challenges managing quality in an ERP project; 12 mistakes to recognize and strategies for avoiding them.
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When Load Tests Are Not Equal
Eight questions to ask your vendors when comparing load testing services.
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OpenSTA Performance Testing
Mini-tutorial on using OpenSTA to load test web applications.
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Practical Solution: Data Center Facility Selection
Mentora "Practical Solutions" papers provide insight and concrete suggestions to address technical issues of installing, maintaining and supporting high-availability web-enabled production applications
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Practical Solution: Data Center Location Selection
Our goal is to help other IT operations teams by sharing lessons learned. Our focus is on practical solutions from an operations perspective
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Managing Quality in your ERP Project: 12 Mistakes to Avoid (Abstract)
This paper shines the spotlight on key mistakes that ERP implementations should avoid. They’ve been distilled from multiple ERP testing projects as part of global enterprise implementations.
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Breaking Out: Load Testing With Java-Based JMeter
Using open source JMeter to performance test a mobile phone download manager.
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Information Security Policy from a Web System Perspective
Understanding the basics of how a legal security policy is actualized in an internet-facing web system.
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Load Testing with JMeter
A practical experience of applying JMeter to load test a cellular ringtone download application.
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Testing Oracle Apps 11i
Techniques for functional testing of Oracle Apps 11i with WinRunner and TestDirector.
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Hands-on Guide to Virtualization
The five technology choices and a proven migration process that delivers the financial benefits of virtualization.
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Sample Load Test Report -- MyOnlineTickets.com
Sample report based on a project conducted on an on-line theater ticket purchasing application.
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Data Center Assessment Checklist
The Mentora team has compiled this Data Center Assessment Checklist to help you evaluate, compare and select data center facilities to meet your hosting, business continuity and disaster recovery needs.
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