Webinar: All About AJAX Testing: Functional + Monitor + Load

Functional Testing of AJAX Applications
Provisioning AJAX Scripts for Monitoring
AJAX Server Loading and Capacity Checking

Wednesday, 30 March 2011
2:00 PM Eastern Time / 11:00 AM Pacific Time

This consolidated approach demonstrates how eValid becomes a genuine force multiplier in your AJAX web application testing, monitoring, and loading efforts. eValid is a self-contained one-stop solution for all three of the most important quality and performance issues of 2011 for AJAX web applications:

• Achieving effective functional testing of an AJAX application.
• Confirming continual correct AJAX application operation (monitoring).
• Estimating required AJAX application server capacity needs.

The eValid suite meets all of these requirements in a single easy-to-use and easy-to-understand solution. eValid doesn't require programming skill, doesn't need special plugins or adaptors. eValid runs quickly and efficiently, and you'll arrive at a web quality solution days or weeks earlier.

In this webinar you'll learn these important lessons:

• AJAX Functional Testing: How to record perfectly reliable AJAX tests, out-of-the-box, including complex AJAX playback synchronization issues.
• Readying AJAX Tests for Monitoring: How to provision an eValid script for use in client-side monitoring, including interfacing the results into popular reporting engines.
• Creating LoadTest Scenarios: How to insert functional tests into a server loading scenario that can run 100,s, 1,000's or even 10,000's of browser users (BUs).
• Realistic Data: How to extract detailed performance data from each BU's activity.

Selected User Forum Posts

Beginning in mid-2010 we have directed all technical support questions to the eValid User Forum. We have learned that when one user has an issue, all users can profit from the answer.

Here is an additional selection of some of the posts that we think would be of general interest.

• Login Recording -- The most common problem with state preservation.
• Full Synchronizing a Typical AJAX Page -- It is very simple to make an AJAX page synchronize.
• The details of the property value for a web page -- Using the PageMap to read DOM values.
• The New HP/Mercury "TruClient" Technology -- Observations that compare and contrast two technologies.
• AJAX Synchronization -- Sure ways to synchronize AJAX playbacks.

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that may be of interest to WQN readers:

• 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2011), 21-25 March 2011, Berlin, Germany, EU
• 4th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing [Co-located with ICST 2011], Berlin, Germany, EU
• Mutation 2011: 6th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis [Co-located with ICST 2011], Berlin, Germany, EU
• 1st International Workshop on Testing and Debugging (TeBug2011) [Co-located with ICST 2011], Berlin, Germany, EU
• 12th IEEE Latin American Test Workshop -- LATW 2011) 27-30 March 2011, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil.

Selected User Forum Posts

Beginning in mid-2010 we have directed all technical support questions to the eValid User Forum. We have learned that when one user has an issue, all users can profit from the answer.

Here is an additional selection of some of the posts that we think would be of general interest.

• Multiple Machine/User Images -- Yes, multiple machine images can all run eValid playbacks independetly.
• Two Nearly Identical, Untitled Desktop Windows -- More about how to handle overlapping, simultaneous arriving desktop windows.
• Annual Subscription License Price -- General approach to monthly licensing fees.
• Preserves the Client-user State -- What does it mean to "maintain client state"?
• How can eValid tell me when a new value arrives? -- How to sense a DOM element change.

Dynamic ID Tags: Testing OracleCRM With Geometric Tests

We have had several requests from our user community for details about applying eValid to the Oracle CRM On Demand application. It seems that one of the main issues with this application is that the implementation uses a special kind of dynamically assigned ID tags, which are updated to new values each time the application is launched. This "feature" defeats eValid's built-in Adaptive Playback feature: when a recording is made it works perfectly but later, when run in batch mode, it fails.

The way to overcome this is with a special kind of geometric testing, which works on explicitly identified pivot points on the web page that don't change (as the implicit ID tags do). Our worked-example writeup, Oracle CRM On Demand -- Example #1 , shows an original recorded "from life" script with quick structural and geometric script modifications that overcome the problem of dyamically assigned ID tag values.

PerformanceTest Special Winter 2011 Discount Offer

eValid's PerformanceTest fixed-price projects offer superior value for high-capacity testing of AJAX applications with 100% realistic client-side operations. As the PerformanceTest Services synopsis shows, eValid can deliver up to 10,000 equivalent browser users at the best price/BU available. Check out the details of the special offer here: Winter 2011 Special PerformanceTest Offer.

Selected User Forum Posts

Beginning in mid-2010 we have directed all technical support questions to the eValid User Forum. We have learned that when one user has an issue, all users can profit from the answer.

Here is an additional selection of some of the posts that we think would be of general interest.

• Recording Protocol -- How to establish a simple recording-time checklist.
• What is the story on scaling eValid instances? -- Limits and groundrules about high eValid BU counts.
• The ValueSave File -- How to use eValid's DOM input/output commands.
• Both Web and Desktop Testing at the Same Time -- How web and windows applications interact in eValid.
  
• Automation of Sample Script -- Details of how to diagnose a script playback problem.