Handling memory within iterations in LoadRunner

September 7th, 2011 by 4 Comments

Recently, I was asked to provide some assistance to a colleague for a particular data scenario that I had not come across previously. This particular scenario required that a user logged on to the Application can only perform particular searches… Read more

Wrestling with RAM relationships

August 30th, 2011 by 4 Comments

One of the most powerful features of Rational Asset Manager is its ability to relate Assets to each other.  I touched on this ability in my last blog post when describing how we modeled a release structure.  However, as  is the case with most… Read more

Performance Testing is not necessarily Performance Engineering

June 22nd, 2011 by 4 Comments

I’ve been in Performance Testing for almost 10 years and consider myself an experienced Performance Testing consultant. As a Performance Testing consultant I have worked for a variety of organisations over this time and of late have noticed an… Read more

Rational Asset Manager – Schema for Release Management

May 17th, 2011 by 4 Comments

Last year I was presented with an opportunity to work on the schema design of Rational Asset Manager (RAM) within a large organization. RAM is an Asset repository. With an Asset being a collection of artefacts and meta-data that collectively… Read more

Environment Models – simplifying deployment and configuration management

April 5th, 2011 by Leave a comment

Walking into a muti-release program, l’m always expecting to see a familiar sight; environments that are different and re-designed for the purpose they fit.  For example, Development environments are not designed in-line with System Testing… Read more