A while back I hosted a Webinar with Ron Woody, Director of Performance at GSI Commerce (now part of eBay). Ron and his team are users of dynaTrace – both AJAX and Test Center Edition. During the Webinar we discussed the advantages and challenges that Web 2.0 offers – with a big focus on eCommerce. [...]

Lucy Monahan is a Principal Performance QA Engineer at Novell, and helps to manage their distributed Agile process. One of the most important features of an application is to provide adequate security and protect secrets held within. Business Transactions used with Continuous Integration, Unit-, Feature- and Negative Testing specialized for security can detect known security [...]

// If you are serious about Web Development then I am sure you are working on Web 2.0 Applications leveraging several JavaScript Frameworks, making XHR calls to the Server to retrieve dynamic content and also include 3rd party content such as Ads or Social Network Plugins. You probably also have Selenium, WebDriver or any other [...]

This Thursday, March 24th at 10am CET, I am happy to host a Webinar on Performance in agile environments. Especially eCommerce shops have embraced dev-ops on top of agile development to bring new features to their customers faster. Together with one of our german parnters, PiazzaBlu, we will show the challenges that agile development and dev-ops pose to [...]

Agile Development Practices have widely been adopted in R&D Organizations. A core component is Continuous Integration where code changes are continuously integrated and tested to achieve the goal of having “potential shippable code” at the end of every Sprint/Iteration. In order to verify code changes agile team members write Unit or Functional Tests that get [...]

In the first and second post of this series I discussed benchmarking and different approaches towards optimization of web application. As already mentioned in the last post, as soon as you get used to working with Key Performance Indicators you will want to automatically monitor them. ShowSlow is a great example of how you can [...]

My colleague Ardeshir Arfaian (aka Ardy) is hosting a Webinar next week showing how to use the dynaTrace Development Edition in a Continuous Integration Environment. He showed me his demo yesterday and I hope many of you can check it out -> it’s really cool!!. He will show How To Integrate dynaTrace with a build-server [...]

I had an interesting conversation with our Test Automation team lead Stefan – who Andi interviewed for our “Eating our own Dog Food ” article – on his experiences with the willingness of developers to write performance tests. I asked a provocative question: do developers really want to write them in the first place? First [...]

I sat together with Stefan Frandl, Test Automation Lead in dynaTrace’s R&D Lab in Linz, Austria to discuss how dynaTrace does Continuous APM in Development. Obviously dynaTrace takes performance very serious as we preach to our clients that Continuous Application Performance Management is a critical component across the Application Lifecycle. The earlier in the Lifecycle [...]

On a recent project I had to call Java REST services from a .NET Client. Several problems came up – ranging from authentication to hidden performance issues. I want to share my lessons learned and encourage you to share your own opinions and experiences on this topic. The Context: REST to automate analysis processes in [...]