Embarcadero Technologies Africa has announced Embarcadero Extreme Test, a next-generation, goals-based performance testing solution for enterprise systems.
Through its time-saving features, differentiated approach to test creation, and open, standards-based architecture, Extreme Test enhances application integrity and gives IT professionals confidence in deploying and upgrading applications throughout any company.
The introduction of Extreme Test represents a move by Embarcadero to bring an enterprise performance testing and management solution to its following of database tools users throughout the Fortune 500.
Extreme Test uses a goals-based approach to performance testing, allowing performance managers and quality assurance (QA) professionals to test the load on a given application, and to set thresholds and parameters on the test to ensure that the outcome meets all defined requirements. This ability accelerates the testing process as tests can be aborted once thresholds are exceeded.
In addition, Extreme Test`s user model editor helps automatically to create realistic user scenarios, which in turn, help to generate accurate and meaningful test results.
Leveraging the Extreme Test repository, performance managers and QA professionals can perform detailed historical analysis of test procedures and results, improving processes and helping to make scenario-based predictions of system performance. This analysis can lead to significant cost savings for the organisation through prevention of performance downtime and outages, and identification of under-used resources that may render investment in additional IT infrastructure unnecessary. All Extreme Test functionality can be leveraged through a single interface.
"Embarcadero Extreme Test is a new way of looking at load testing. The granularity of the tool and the speed with which a load test can be created and executed is fantastic," says Brian Phillips, chief executive officer for SysTest Labs. "This tool takes the guesswork out of pinpointing maximum traffic capacity."
Database, application and system performance and availability have become critical factors directly affecting a company`s bottom line. Companies are facing increased pressure to deliver enhanced performance for business processes, which is intensified by the growth in data and the increased complexity of application architectures.
IT organisations are also seeing an increase in the number of applications they are required to manage, tighter budgets, and demands for increasing levels of customer service.
Embarcadero Extreme Test helps address these issues through a single tool by verifying application availability and performance, reducing system stress, identifying under-used resources, and ultimately helping to avoid performance downtime and system outages.
"With Extreme Test, Embarcadero sought to raise the bar in the performance testing space in terms of productivity of the testing professional and reliability of the test results," says Alan Raubenheimer, MD of Embarcadero Technologies Africa. "We started by leveraging the most current, agile, and scalable infrastructure technologies to build on. We then augmented the approach to testing with a goals-based approach, enabling users to specify exactly what `acceptable performance` means to them before executing a test. In the end, the user can significantly cut down on the trial and error so often attributed to performance testing, and deliver results faster and with greater confidence."
Extreme Test`s standards-based, J2EE-compliant architecture, ease of use, and universal workbench for testing, analysing and reporting make it ideal for ensuring the performance of applications running in heterogeneous environments. It increases the customer`s ability to handle complex tasks confidently by predicting application stability, generating realistic database tests, and safeguarding large-scale installations.
Extreme Test is compatible with Windows, Linux, Unix and legacy platforms. Extreme Test provides significant business and technical benefits:
* Load model editor: Helps reduce test time and optimise results through goals-based testing.
* User model editor: Enables the creation of realistic user scenarios, generating accurate test results.
* Integrated relational repository: Allows users to share test assets and results, reuse test scripts, and easily perform regression and historical analysis.
* Universal workbench: allows the user to manage every aspect of the testing cycle - from environment setup and test creation, to test execution and analysis - from a single interface.
* Database load generation: Enables simulation of transactions directly against a data source, allowing users explicitly to test the database component of their application.
* Performance analysis: Allows users to identify performance bottlenecks and examine detailed performance metrics by watching test executions in real-time, providing an immediate view into the response of different application layers.
* Wizard-driven interfaces: Facilitates the execution of key tasks, decreasing the learning curve and increasing productivity.
Extreme Test is available as a complete solution, needing no third-party tools. A repository that captures comprehensive information about every script, device, test definition, and test execution ships with Extreme Test at no additional cost. The repository runs on Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase databases.
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