Embracing Big Data

What Businesses Can Do to Reign in and Leverage Information It’s a wonderful thing: with the advent of big data, companies can now access, analyze, and leverage a flood of knowledge and use it to improve decision making, performance, and ideal revenues. Take the success story of online bookseller Amazon; its information gurus successfully tracked,… Continue reading Embracing Big Data

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Installing the New Virtual Table Server 12.53

This tutorial is designed to explain and demonstrate the downloading, installation, data loading, and use of the virtual table server (VTS). It is intended for use by experienced HPE LoadRunner users who have a working knowledge of HPE LoadRunner parameters and the C programming language, as it is commonly used for HPE LoadRunner scripting. VTS Utility… Continue reading Installing the New Virtual Table Server 12.53

Performance Testing: Balancing Customer Experience and Company Reality

When a company rolls out applications to the public or internal customers, the goal is for the end-user experience to make an impression that will compel the user to return. Part of that experience for the user is getting through their tasks quickly, without error and at any time they choose. Providing this to an… Continue reading Performance Testing: Balancing Customer Experience and Company Reality

Solving the Challenge of Data Security in Development and Testing

Data breaches are becoming impossible to escape. They occur in every business sector and in companies of all sizes. Juniper Research estimates that the average cost of a single data breach will exceed $150 million by 2020, with the global exposure exceeding $2 trillion by 2019. Yet, many organizations still struggle to secure their production… Continue reading Solving the Challenge of Data Security in Development and Testing

Performance Center Maintenance: A Routine Recommendation

Frequently our customers experience downtime in their HPE Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)/Performance Center (PC) environment for various reasons. How many do you think ever consider maintaining their HPE ALM/PC environment? Not many. You should think of your HPE ALM/PC environment as if it were your vehicle or your home. Like your vehicle or home, you… Continue reading Performance Center Maintenance: A Routine Recommendation

Correlating Business Transactions with Business Transaction Logs in APM

Over the last two decades, software development in the enterprise has changed from applications in silos to distributed and composite applications. These new solutions connect multiple services, databases, and even mainframe computers to solve more complex business problems. In this new solution development practice, the end users or computer-generated requests interact with a broad range… Continue reading Correlating Business Transactions with Business Transaction Logs in APM

Metrics versus KPIs—and the Importance of Understanding the Difference

In a recent blog, I provided an introduction to reporting and offered suggestions to help software professionals determine if their teams are using reporting effectively. I followed that up with a discussion of the importance of, and processes involved in, developing a functional reporting framework. Today, we are ready to talk about metrics and key… Continue reading Metrics versus KPIs—and the Importance of Understanding the Difference

Quality in the Application Development Lifecycle: Good Is No Longer Good Enough

As most of us know, or at least have heard, user expectations for applications are at an all-time high. For mobile and web applications, they border on astronomic. Yet, many companies are still failing to achieve the quality that users expect. Often, consumer application developers are caught in a “perform or die” scenario and are… Continue reading Quality in the Application Development Lifecycle: Good Is No Longer Good Enough

Error Proofing Your HPE LoadRunner Scripts

When an application under test (AUT) produces less than satisfactory results, the first question a customer will inevitably ask is “What went wrong?” Closely followed by, “Are you sure these results are correct? What about the scripts? Are they working properly?” And so it begins. From a performance engineer’s perspective, this is a fairly common… Continue reading Error Proofing Your HPE LoadRunner Scripts