Archive for May, 2008

Customize size of images in LoadRunner HTML reports

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Quick tip: With prevalence of larger monitors these days, it is nice to have charts and graphs that take advantage of the extra space. If you want to customize the size of the charts in the LoadRunner HTML reports, change these settings in C:\Program Files\Mercury\LoadRunner\bin\dat\GeneralSettings.txt: [HTML report] ChartWidth=1024 ChartHeight=576

New look

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

If you've been to this site before, you may have noticed the new look. For various reasons, I've converted the site from drupal to Wordpress. Everything seems to be working, and hopefully most of the old links will redirect to their new locations. One thing that is no longer ...

Article: Scalability Principles

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

At the simplest level, scalability is about doing more of something. This could be responding to more user requests, executing more work or handling more data. This article presents some principles and guidelines for building scalable software systems. By Floyd Marinescu

Post-Deployment Slowdown?

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

In this month’s issue of Software Test and Performance, Michele Kennedy shares a great experience report on troubleshooting performance issues. It includes some great tips, recommends some free tools, and includes some real examples. It’s a good read. I wish more performance testing articles were written this way - real ...

determyne Releases Open Source J2EE Performance Monitoring Tool

Monday, May 12th, 2008

determyne Inc. has announced the technology preview of an open source transaction-level performance monitoring solution for J2EE applications. insideApps is an end-to-end transaction tracing and reporting system that enables you to centrally and automatically monitor the performance of your J2EE applications. In contrast to the traditional approach of collecting and ...

Open Source Troubleshooting for Java

Monday, May 12th, 2008

VisualVM is an OpenJDK project from Sun to create an all-in-one troubleshooting tool for Java applications. The tool is a combination of several existing tools and newer profiling capabilities. By Craig Wickesser