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Automai Watcher Connected Securely with Citrix NetScaler

Automai Watcher allows continuous monitoring of any application or desktop environment from any location. For this to happen, the client component called Automai BotManager needs to be configured to connect with the Automai Director securely. Below is a diagram explaining the traffic flow. The Citrix NetScaler enables the Automai Server to run on port 80

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More On The Test Competition

Over the past two weeks I have spent a great deal of time doing research, gathering resources, and judging interest in an on-line test competition in software testing.  My conclusion is kind of like Nike.

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A Tale of Two Performance Projects

Imagine for a moment two companies have an identical problem – the website is slow.  Perhaps this is a huge problem; the company bet it’s future on a new product, that customers sign up for on the web, and performance is bad enough that people are abandoning the site and going to the competition.  In

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System Shenanigans

Last week I put out the Black Swan In The Enterprise, which argued that most uptime planning comes from the ability to predict the future — and sometimes, the future is wildly different that you would have predicted.  Things fall apart; the centre does not hold — and they fall apart very differently than what

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Yugo Testing

Recently, I was invited to observe a colleague’s monthly stress test exercise. There is a large room filled with mangers and technicians, experts in various aspects of the system, general network specialists, application specialists, customer support representatives and a collection of people with backgrounds in various aspects of testing.

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Deviant Deviation

A few years ago, I worked a performance project.  You probably know the type:  Customers were upset, executives were upset, technical staff were asking for specific direction (and not getting much) … nobody was happy. The code was already in production, and there was no obvious ‘roll it back to the previous version that is

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(Just Starting to) Analyze Performance Data

If you’ve done any performance testing, or even seen a demo, you are probably familiar with the “big line graph” that is created as the test runs. A Typical Response Time Graph The typical scenario is simple:  Have the load tool start with one simultaneous user running a script.  Then add a new user, say, every thirty

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Oracle Apps Tutorial: How to Automate Oracle EBS Patch Testing

One of the universal facts with Oracle E-Business Suite or any other large software package is that you eventually will need to apply patches. The Oracle E-Business Suite patches vary in size and scope. From the small one-off patches (also called an Emergency Patch) to a large upgrade patch, you will need to determine two

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Intelligent Session Recording for Citrix and Calabrio

Streamline your recordings while protecting the security of sensitive data.

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