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I want to practice performance testing at home using loadrunner or ibm rational performance tester or jmeter. But for this i need an application on which i can perform testing. Can anyone suggest me such dummy web application on which can do performance testing at home using above tools?
As far as I know, LoadRunner comes with Web Tour Sample Application
For JMeter or Rational Performance Testing evaluation I would suggest to:
Choose any free CMS, E-learning, or E-commerce product i.e.:
Drupal
Moodle
Magento
Install it somewhere in your local intranet
Get hands-on practice with one of the popular solutions which may be useful in the future.
If possible, install the application you're testing on the separate physical or virtual machine, this way you can learn how to collect and analyze server-side performance metrics as they matter.
Dmitri noted that the commercial tools tend to have available a demo environment used as a part of sales demos and training for just this type of education. These demo apps are great for a controlled environment to teach the mechanical concepts on how to use the tools. Beyond that, you want something more, ....real....
Download and install at your home any open source application. SugarCRM is a good one for this type of education. There are plenty of challenges in the app to keep you busy and it will exercise most capabilities in performance testing tools.
When you feel up to it, there is a challenge you will want to try,
http://www.myloadtest.com/training/correlation-challenge/
This is a single user exercise for ensuring that you get a script working. Please do not performance test Stuart's website without explicit written permission or this becomes an undesired denial of services action.
If you are going to use LoadRunner, then by defalut you will get a dummy application provided by HP called - WebToursApplication
Recently I found another dummy banking application by HP called - ZeroBank
Please find the link to this application
http://zero.webappsecurity.com/login.html
Login details are
Login:username
password:password
Hope you got what you are looking for.
So Happy Testing.
In looking around, I found:
*Ability to run tests on load generators on Amazon EC2 Cloud
on
http://community.hpe.com/t5/LoadRunner-Information-and-News/LoadRunner-12-00-Released/td-p/6419972
Here is the Amazon EC2 Cloud Service:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but I hope it helps.
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I'm a Web Developer and Backend Architect. As a Developer I need Web Hosting to run and deploy my code. Normal Web hosting plans don't offer flexibility, they're focused on simplicity and ease of use for normal/non-tech people. However, I need full stack hosting, a server where I have full control. Where I can install my necessary and preferred software, run my own programs like I do in my own PC. I have seen dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, cloud servers and I don't know which one actually fits my needs.I'll be happy if someone gives me some guidance.
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I suggest you to use http://aws.amazon.com/pt/ bcz:
Price - have free plans that help you in development process and paid plans are not expensive
Structure - You can configure everything, machine, server configuration, OS, DNS and more.
Technologies - Most Hosts have limitations and you cant configure permissions in server. AWS use a separated structure that let you set your configurations without limitations.
Well, this is my point. I tested and worked with so many hosts and i realize that AWS is the best.
Dedicated hosting is not necessary because it cost is very high.
If you need a fixed server eg:4gp ram, 2 core processor and centos.
you can go for VPS Hosting you can get help in this link VPS
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If you want to pay for what you use you should go for cloud servers.
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I am looking for software/app that is advanced for testing web applications. I need to be able to report on speeds, bottlenecks, server responses, and more. The one big part of the testing tool is that I need to be able to report on the load times and response times because we have a proxy in the middle that we think is causing a bottleneck between the app and the server. Windows software or Mac app would be appreciated to know about.
I'm not sure if you've heard of New Relic, but its a great tool for testing your application end-to-end. It gives you complete performance visibility throughout your application. Easy to install and quick to setup.
Other than that, if you are just looking at profiling your front end performance, there are some great free tools such as WebPageTest and PageSpeed Insights. I'm also a big fan of the Google Chrome Developer Tools for finding front-end bottlenecks.
I have used Visual Studio 2013 for the same purpose. In VS, you can create several Web Performance Tests and then using these tests you can create a Load Test. I have used these Load Tests to find deadlocks, internal server errors etc. It gives you a details analysis in terms of average time for each request, which requests failed etc. And like all other Microsoft products, VS is easy to use and a lot of help is available online.
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Please recommend a scrum/agile project management tool. First, it should be able to be installed or deployed on my local computer. Additionally, it should be free, no need for complete unlimited usage, just that it can support 5 users and some scrum project functions, such as "kanban".
I found some answers of other questions like mine. Some of the tools which have been recommended are too old, so please recommend newer tools for me. And if it has a nice look that would be better, something like scrumwise or targetprocess.
Must haves:
local applications
free
kanban
I would suggest using Eylean board as it is the most visual scrum board compared to the competitors. And according to scrum you need to have a visible and transparent process inside your team. Also this software allows mixing other methodologies as well.
It is free of charge for personal use.
Given that you're wanting a local application, I'm assuming that your team is all located in the same place.
If so, I'd advise against using tools. As the agile manifesto says: "We value Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools". I'd urge you to consider co-locating your team(s), improving communication, using cards, physical boards and information radiators.
Hope that helps.
Try Yodiz, you can have up to 3 free users and it's one of the most intuitive with amazing UX. Every month they add more features to their platform. A few of the important features they have are following.
Collaboration Tools (Chat, Discussion, in-line comments)
Board, they have slick boards to manage your user stories and tasks.
User story management is as easy as it gets. Awesome backlog with priority and filtering
features.
Import/Export data to or from Jira, Pivotal and many other systems.
Three (3) free users with full features.
Report, they have detailed reporting, that makes progress and time tracking so easy.
Over all it's great tool. It's worth to give it a try.
http://www.simple-kanban.com
This seems like it meets your requirements. There are other possibilities if you will accept a hosted solution rather than a local install.
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I am looking for some tool that would help me prototype basic website structure and logistics (or simply user interface).
It should be extremely efficient in the matter of time needed to do simple changes like changing position of objects on the page. It should provide features for creating multiple pages and linking them together.
I don't need visual aspect of the thing, just the basic structure, placement of objects and logistics.
I prefer offline, free or open source solution.
Try Mockingbird, it's mainly used for user interface prototypes, but you can easily use it for flowcharts / structure diagrams etc.
Best of all it's free!
Try Balsamiq Mockups, it's excellent and quite inexpensive. Or, Microsoft's Sketchflow is great for building interactive prototypes.
In no particular order:
Sketchflow, part of Expression Blend 3
Balsamiq
Mockingbird
Axure
"I prefer offline, free or open source solution."
Then Pencil is what you need!
I've tried iPlotz recently which is an online wireframing tool and I've been impressed.
I highly recommend Mockplus Cloud.
Mockplus is a desktop-based tool for prototyping mobile, web, and apps. You are able to create interactions with simple drag-and-drop. Besides，your teamwork will be time-efficient with the collaboration feature.
The admins are always online and can solve your problems in minutes if you have any. You can learn about design and get design inspirations and resources in this group.
What’s more, this group offers many benefits to its members only.
If you join the Mockplus and the admin will offer you 40% off coupons and free UI Kits & Fonts Package. Besides, you will get life-time free tech support on Mockplus even if you are not a paid user now.
If you are looking for a place to communicate with others about product and UX/UI design, and also get a great rapid prototyping tool with saving a big budget.
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For an in house software project, what type of system I could use to centralize all the online team members discussion?
For our software development effort, currently our questions and answers are all scattered over emails.
Its hard to track ideas, questions, and answers etc.
What do you guys use? How do you manage such a situation?
Could a wiki be used for some thing like this? And if so, how could I get started? I have not done this before.
Our discussions could have sensitive information for the company as well so how could I address security?
In terms of technology, I would definitely go for a wiki (and Twiki is certainly not a bad choice). If it's installed on your company's intranet then there is no issue in terms of security.
One thing to keep in mind about a wiki is that it requires some work to keep it maintained; it's easy (and sometimes tempting) for everyone in the team to constantly just add pages without taking any linking of pages or structure into account. The moral here: a wiki is a very helpful tool for helping in communication, but it doesn't come for free.
However, depending on the kinds of communication/discussion that you're talking about: definitely watch out that online communication isn't replacing face-to-face communication. Depending on the interpersonal skills of the members of the team, it can some times be too easy for some people to shift to e-mail/wiki/forum use instead of verbal communication. Even having daily stand-up meetings (a la SCRUM) can be very useful in ensuring that everyone knows what is going on in the team instead of relying on electronic communication.
I'd suggest redmine
It has a forum and wiki per project, as you seem to need, and a lot more features very usefull when dealing with a project that requires several members to participate. And its opensource!
The only "issue" is that it was written using Ruby on Rails.
I would say Twiki, its an open source enterprise wiki.
Needs sometime to get used to it, but once you are, you will find opening new pages and topics very easy and quick.
One of the advantages IMO is its hosted on your own server
TWiki® - the Open Source Enterprise Wiki and Web 2.0 Application Platform
My own distributed team has experienced a similar problem, and we've solved it in the following way.
Day-to-day we run a continuous group chat (Campfire is an option). Announcements, questions, and answers can happen in chat, and it's recorded. You can search past transcripts as needed. This is simple and lightweight.
We also use a wiki for more permanent content. Sometimes material that starts in chat migrates to the wiki. The advantage of a structured wiki is that it makes it easier to onboard new team members and maintain specific content like team norms (like Subversion's HACKING doc).
The benefit is that we keep fast and lightweight chat for transient questions and so on, but we still have the wiki to hold content once it's deemed important.