After announcing support for Firefox 7 in dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium we now also provide support for the latest version of Mozilla’s Browser in dynaTrace AJAX Edition. The latest Beta update of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.2 therefore gives you full JavaScript, AJAX, Network and Rendering analysis support for the latest versions of Mozialla Firefox and [...]
There is no doubt that performance is important for your business. If you don’t agree you should check out what we and others think about the Performance Impact on Business or remember headlines like these: Target.com web site was down after promoting a new labels: Article on MSN Twitter was down and people complaining about [...]
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. [...]
// Mozilla is fast with releasing new versions of Firefox and following fast is the dynaTrace team. As many of our users have asked about Firefox 5 support we are happy to announce that we have support with dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.2 Beta. Release support for Firefox 5 will follow shortly for both our dynaTrace [...]
Keith A. Marshall, Lead Developer at Insight North America, talks about how he identifies certain transactions by injecting specific HTTP Headers “on-the-fly” using Fiddler. Performance and Scalability testing are two important components in our software development and applications deployment lifecycle. The more information that is correlated from the testing the better the picture we get. [...]
How to do Security Testing with Business Transactions – Guest Blog by Lucy Monahan from Novell
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 [...]
In the last week my task was to create stable functional tests for a new eCommerce application. We picked several use cases, e.g.: clicking through the different links, logging in, searching for products and actually buying a product. We needed functional tests that run on both Internet Explorer and Firefox. With these tests we want [...]
Every change in your code can potentially introduce a performance regression and can impact the application’s ability to scale. Regression analysis addresses this problem by tracking performance aspects of different components throughout the development process and under different load patterns. Black vs. White Box Analysis There are different flavors of regression analysis. We can either [...]
I am currently working on a blog where I am going to explain how to do cross-browser testing and performance analysis using dynaTrace. Before I am going to blog that How-To I want to share with you one thing that I have noticed when executing my tests in Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6. Test [...]
// 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 [...]



