An on-demand test environment can solve a lot of problems. This might be a web server, possibly with a test database, just for the tester. In the case of a mobile app, it might mean pushing a new build onto a phone, but it is more likely to mean testing aga...
Virtualized container use in software application development and deployment is increasing across nearly all industry verticals. Containers provide advantages of virtualization without draining computing resources. When used in the testing process, containe...
Ephemeral computing makes sense; the simple fact is that more companies want to maximize the expense of computing: Nobody wants to pay for computing power that goes unused. Ephemeral computing lets companies pay only for the computing power they need, exact...
Lets examine performance testing for ephemeral applications; those that are loaded, executed and destroyed dynamically, used only when needed. The article focuses on performance testing virtual machines and container in an orchestrated, cloud environment. P...
Does your software application have bugs? Of course it has, every software application that’s out there has bugs and bug-free software is a myth. But it’s still possible to greatly minimize bugs, security problems and errors in your application ...
We planned to move our physical servers over to virtual VMware machines for quite some time now and finally purchased and set up our new system at the end of last year. As our experience might be useful for some people who plan the same, I decided to descri...
Until now, the free VMware Server was only available as a beta, but today VMware Inc. finally released the 1.0 of the product. This makes it possible for ISVs to save money and time by hosting multiple servers on one physical machine and start/stop/control ...
VMware is announcing their $200.000 Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge. Anyone can submit a self-built virtual appliance and get the chance to win up to $100.000 as the first price. VMware defines a virtual appliance as: “Virtual Appliances are not ...
When we first heard about the free VMware Server, we got really excited. We have been planning to replace our aging servers with some new hardware and thought about reducing the server count. Besides our internet server which is located at our provider, we ...
The new free VMware Player could be a great tool for ISVs to help prospective customers evaluate their software easier and faster (just as I noted in my last posting). ISVs could offer fully preconfigured virtual machines with their trial software and inter...
VMware Inc. just announced the release of their new product VMware Player. VMware Player can be downloaded for free and lets anyone use preconfigured virtual machines without buying VMware Workstation. For those who do not know what VMware Workstation is, i...
For a welcome change from testing the upcoming SmartInspect release, I decided to write some notes about how we test our software on multiple platforms. Let’s begin with the simpler part, the SmartInspect Console. Since the tests for the Console are c...