Archive | Software Testing

12 December 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Early Christmas – SOASTA secures another $12M in funding!

I took my Monday’s coffee with the best read ever! Tom Lounibos, our fearless leader, announced internally a fantastic news to all SOASTA employees. We all knew this was in the work but it feels so good to finally be able to announce it to the world! We’re announcing today a $12 million round of [...]

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08 December 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Introduction to monitoring using SOASTA CloudTest Lite

I was giving a demo to a partner last week using SOASTA CloudTest Lite and I had included some monitoring in the demo. People on the call who are doing performance/load testing using open-source products were very impressed by our ability to setup monitoring for any kind of infrastructure while being able to combine and [...]

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17 November 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Busy times at SOASTA and loving it!

It’s been a really busy couple of months here at SOASTA! Our free product CloudTest Lite is rocking the software testing world right now. Literally. We’ve seen thousands of downloads and activations from all around the world (Yes, we load tested our registration infrastructure of course ) We’re receiving awesome feedback from performance testing luminaries, [...]

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14 September 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Getting started in mobile web performance

As you know, mobile web is hot, hot, hot and mobile might very well replace desktop in the next few years (the jury is out on that one!) Some latest stats to support this trend: There will be more mobile internet users than wireline users in the US by 2015. 6B mobile connections by the [...]

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07 September 2011 ~ 6 Comments

A typical case of web failure thanks to the HP TouchPad and lack of load testing from the cloud

Last year, I was writing an article called: “Performance testing: When will they learn?“, pointing the fact that most websites were still unprepared when it comes to handling large volume of traffic. Everyone could remember the Apple and AT&T pre-order crash last year in the US. A typical example of what not to do when [...]

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06 September 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Cloud Testing days in London – Join me!

I’ll be flying out to London next week and participate to 2 testing events. First, I will meet our new partner Testhouse and hold a joint webinar: Load and Performance Testing in Today’s Web and Mobile World – A revolution with SOASTA CloudTest. This is an introduction to cloud testing where I’ll have an opportunity [...]

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27 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

SOASTA is hiring the BEST performance engineers in Europe

Yes, the rumors are true. We’re expanding our performance engineering organization in Europe as a lot of companies need help to get their web and mobile applications ready for the traffic!

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20 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Web Performance To-Do List for the next few days

You didn’t know what to do in the next few days? Here are some pointers This is where you want to start: Download CloudTest Lite

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