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StarBase survey finds that AX Programme Managers are struggling to deliver quality
StarBase recently surveyed AX Programme Managers in the UK and beyond to understand the challenges they face in achieving quality outcomes. I...Read More -
What’s new in ALM 12.50?
HP released their new version of Application lifecycle Management (ALM) service at the end of last year and I will take a look into some of the upd...Read More -
HP LoadRunner 12.5 – the latest update
So HP Enterprise (HPE) released LoadRunner version 12.5 last year and we thought we’d put together a list of the most useful features and the...Read More -
What’s different about UFT 12.5?
Unified Function Testing, or UFT, is an automated testing tool for functional and regression testing. It is a combination of QTP and HP Service tes...Read More -
Video: How StarBase gets your Dynamics AX running quickly again
We’ve put together a short video that shows how we use our RAPID® AX Transaction Profiler tool to get your Dynamics AX performa...Read More -
Sod’s Law – a lethal piece of legislation – especially when trying to deliver business critical programmes
At some time or another we’ve all been caught out by Sod’s Law; key team members going sick at crucial points of project or programme d...Read More -
Find causes of poor Dynamics AX performance fast with StarBase’s RAPID AX Transaction Profiler
Microsoft Dynamics AX is a very powerful and versatile ERP system, but it can slow down, and when it does you may struggle to identify why. C...Read More -
Common Performance Testing Issues
Performance testing highlights areas which aren’t performing or areas which may fail to perform when put under increased load, but on ...Read More -
The Spectre of Poor Performance at Scale
The overload of cinema websites ahead of the launch of “Spectre”, the new James Bond movie, and next month’s launch of the new St...Read More -
Top 5 Reasons Why Your Dynamics AX Might be Running Slow
At StarBase, we are called in to assure Dynamics AX implementations that need to scale, and to diagnose problems causing AX to slow down in ‘...Read More -
Interview with Stephen Davis on StarBase’s move into testing Dynamics AX
Why did StarBase’s move into Dynamics come about? I recognised an emerging opportunity: Dynamics AX is starting to become a serious ...Read More -
Fast, fixed price performance evaluation as a service - Test&Go: Performance Evaluation
Would your business cope if a critical application or website was subjected to increased demand or stress? For clients who need to check that...Read More -
Does your testing project need rescuing?
Are you concerned that a major new release might not perform or scale? Is your project in trouble? Do you lack the right specialist...Read More -
StarBase Drive Performance and Accelerate Delivery
“StarBase has helped turn the EFT Performance Testing engine from Fiat to Ferrari horsepower!” StarBase recently engaged with a c...Read More -
Will HTTP/2 Solve All Your Performance Woes?
If you rely on the web for business, performance is everything. If your site is not performing or - heaven forbid - marked as SLOW , then you´...Read More -
Will your site be banished for performing too slow?
We all know the frustrations of visiting a website which isn´t up to pace and we often give up and find an alternative, so what if you...Read More -
Succeeding where others fail, that’s the key
StarBase Test&Go: One of the approaches we adopt to deliver success in Software Performance Testing Jon McAdam, Consultant, StarBase ...Read More -
Getting to grips with the UK’s Information Technology Skills Shortage
The IT skills shortage and how ‘Test&Go’ closes the gap Priya Kerai, Human Resources Manager, StarBase At StarBase we ...Read More -
Silver Surfers Smash Senior Savings Site
NS&I Website Crashes Under High Demand This morning the UK’s National Savings and Investments (NS&I) website crashed under high...Read More -
HP LoadRunner 12.02 – Second Look at Noise Testing
New Noise Testing Feature of the New LoadRunner 12.02 In my last blog article, HP LoadRunner 12.02 – First Look at the New Features, I ...Read More -
HP LoadRunner 12.02 – First Look at the New Features
HP LoadRunner 12.02 has just been released and to ease my way into 2015 I have been taking a look at its new features, three of which I would l...Read More -
To infinity and beyond… handling extreme demand in digital business
A lot of my blog articles this year have focused on how digital companies have failed to meet peak demands placed on them by their digital customer...Read More -
Sainsbury’s Cancels Customers’ Christmases
Sainsbury’s cancels Christmas A major IT systems failure has meant many Sainsbury’s customers have had their Christmas d...Read More -
Discover How HP’s Simpler, Leaner Tools will lead to Actionable Insights Across the Lifecycle
HP Discover 2014 in Barcelona HP Discover 2014 Barcelona I’m just back from HP Discover 2014 in Barcelona and...Read More -
Twelve Posts for Christmas 2014
Our Top 12 Posts from 2014 Our top 12 posts from 2014 Here’s a look back at the 12 most popular StarBase posts for 2014....Read More -
SAP BPC Performance Testing – Part 6
Lessons Learned Lessons learned? A number really StarBase – HP Gold Partner The scripts are la...Read More -
SAP BPC Performance Testing – Part 5
The testing is finished and the client is happy SAP BPC Performance Testing with LoadRunner The testing is finished and the ...Read More -
SAP BPC Performance Testing – Part 4
It’s execution time! StarBase – HP Gold Partner We’d not really thought about it whilst we were creating t...Read More -
SAP BPC Performance Testing – Part 3
You’ve now got the beginnings of a LoadRunner script from the SAP utility. This is likely to be several thousand lines long. It&rsq...Read More -
SAP BPC Performance Testing – Part 2
In my last article I said that HP’s LoadRunner won’t record BPC, well not properly anyway! SAP have recognised this and...Read More -
SAP BPC Performance Testing – Part 1
People Who Don’t Believe SAP needs Performance Testing StarBase have done a lot of testing of SAP and it’s always interesting, th...Read More -
Black-Cloud Friday – Cyber Monday is next
Black-Cloud Friday Today’s headlines of police being called to keep the peace at Black Friday sales show that consumers will fight-in-t...Read More -
Are we smart enough?
Are we smart enough? I read a really interesting article in the Harvard Journal this morning. The author was writing about the growth i...Read More -
Fat & Short v Thin & Long – Boot Camp for Unfit Scripts
Over the years I’ve developed a lot of LoadRunner scripts and have had to modify a whole lot more that may have once worked but now don&rsquo...Read More -
Black Friday for the UK’s Retailers
Black Friday for the UK’s Retailers – We all knew it was coming The new Peak in Town Tension mounted as all-round the ...Read More -
Wing-less Money-grabbers Crash Red Bull’s Compensation Website over $10 Claim
4.6 Million Wing-Less Money-Grabbers Crash Red Bull’s Free Cash Website Author: Alan Moulsdale, Technical Director, StarBase ...Read More -
DVLA Crash – IT Performance Thoughts
The IT performance failure of the DVLA’s online road taxing site has hit the headlines, and thousands of customers have been un...Read More -
Car Crash for DVLA Flags IT Performance Testing
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) website went down last night after failing to cope with demand for its service as thousands of drivers t...Read More -
Critical Alert for HP Software
HP has informed StarBase through a Critical Security Bulletin of a threat in relation to the HP LoadRunner Controller & Mon...Read More -
HP Quality Center 11 – or is it?
HP’s Application Lifecycle Management includes a huge index of applications available to us, one of which is Quality Center. ...Read More -
How We Monitor Results
We put people into a range of stretching projects, some outside their comfort zone, nevertheless supported by management and colleagues and measured w...Read More -
Who and Why We Develop
Everyone at StarBase has their training needs and performance analysed to ensure we are providing the highest level of service to our clients. This an...Read More -
Our Investment in our people and their investment in themselves
We previously blogged a piece about what we (our client and our consultants) believe are the top 20 attributes of a Performance Test Consultant, past ...Read More -
HTTP/HTML vs. HP TruClient
Recently I conducted a comparison between two LoadRunner recording protocols, HTTP/HTML and HP TruClient. The aim of this exercise was to discover wha...Read More -
Technical Tester or Performance Testing Consultant?
In our specialist area we think it’s really important to be technically skilled, being able to carry out technical work effectively, use the ...Read More -
More speed, less cost – a winning combination for message-based frameworks
Message–based frameworks offer rich interoperability and scalability, but their complexity requires specialist understanding...Read More -
Business Drivers for IBM Rational (Green Hat) Integration
IBM Rational (Green Hat) technology is used by clients who are challenged with testing complex applications. Using Rational technology to virtuali...Read More -
Top Tips For Test Managers
The Test Manager role is pivotal to the successful on-time delivery of test projects. Test management includes coordinating efforts of the people i...Read More -
SOA and Message-Based Applications Testing
Much of the infrastructure underpinning modern systems is message-driven. Applications are highly interdependent and are often not screen-based, so...Read More -
Are you Facing Challenges Performance Testing Modern Applications?
Alan Moulsdale, Technical Director at StarBase and a thought leader in performance testing, was recently invited to speak at the UKCMG Forum (UK Capac...Read More -
The Unexpected Benefits of Service Virtualisation
StarBase are already seeing the benefits of service virtualisation in performance testing but sometimes benefits can come from unexpected areas. A rec...Read More -
Cost Savings Using Service Virtualisation
Today’s applications typically involve interactions with numerous applications in house, legacy and external to the company. Simulating these across m...Read More -
Test Data Generation doesn’t need to be Testing!
One of our regular major headaches on performance testing projects is test data. Either we can’t use production data because it is sensitive,...Read More -
Virtualisation vs In House Test Harness
Today's applications typically involve interactions with numerous applications both in house and external. Simulating these before they are either ful...Read More -
What Do We Actually Mean When We Talk About Concurrency?
We often talk about levels of concurrency in terms of numbers of users who access a web page or application at the same time. This definition is to no...Read More -
Are you confident in the Performance of your Cloud Hosted Applications?
For consumers, the benefits of exploiting cloud computing provision have been comprehensively documented. Fundamentally, the 'cloud' encapsulates the ...Read More -
Externally defined Performance Test
A Performance Test in IBM Rational Integration Tester can either be set to Constant Growth or Externally Defined. We can use Constant Growth if the...Read More -
How Early Should Performance Testing Start?
Performance testing is often left to the latter stages of the application development life cycle. This is typically because this is the stage at when ...Read More -
Virtual Integration Environment
Testing of integration projects has always been complicated by multiple dependencies, such as: deliverables from different teams, systems owned and...Read More -
Take a look at HP Agile Manager
As the adoption of Agile continues at pace, fuelled by the need to innovate faster, get to market sooner and achieve the accelerated cycles demande...Read More -
Can Iliad win the Trojan War?
We will help you to win your fight against low quality, poorly performing, software. StarBase recently used the Iliad T3 Stress/Performance test tool...Read More -
What’s to be done about the Failure of Offshore Testing
We've written here and elsewhere about the failure of offshore performance testing and its root cause – namely that it is the nature of the tasks to b...Read More -
LoadRunner 11.52 has arrived – so what’s new?
HP recently announced that the service pack addition had been released for LoadRunner 11.5 – making it 11.52! We were fortunate enough ...Read More -
Why Offshore Testing has Failed
We wrote a short while ago about the failure of offshore performance testing – its failure to reduce costs and its failure to assure quality. It’s onl...Read More -
Better Onshore than Unsure
Offshore performance testing has failed. The experience of many UK organisations has been that it hasn't reduced costs and it hasn't assured quality. ...Read More -
In The Know: Video Content
As part of our commitment to keep you In The Know, we have added several videos to our Knowledge Base. Including product insights from our partners IB...Read More -
Stay In The Know with StarBase
We know it's tough to keep current with developments in software testing. Being well informed is critical to making the right decision and ensuring yo...Read More -
‘The Technical Debt’ in the Financial market
The Financial services sector has attracted media attention in recent months for all the wrong reasons. Software failures have led to angry customers ...Read More -
Testing earlier, faster, continuously, at a lower cost and de-risked delivery – What more do you want?
Partnering very smart testing tools with very smart Consultants: Through its automated integration testing – below the GUI – and ...Read More -
Quality Management with the IBM Rational Tool Set
Following IBM’s acquisition of Green Hat in January 2012, the IBM Rational tool set has been enhanced with the following products: Green Hat Tester...Read More -
‘I Had a Major Decision to Make, Shut Down or Change’
Stephen Davis, StarBase founder and MD, provides an insight about his experience in starting his own company. Why did you start StarBase? ...Read More -
‘Surround Yourself With Smart People and Invest Time in their Development’
Stephen Davis, StarBase founder and MD of StarBase, was recently asked about the challenges of building your own company. What were the major...Read More -
Counteracting Threats to your Business Posed by Offshore Competition
Stephen Davis, StarBase founder and MD of StarBase, discusses the threats posed by the economic climate and off-shore competition. What do yo...Read More -
StarBase Vision of Business Performant Application Engineering
As a member of the UKCMG (UK Capacity Management Group) we recently addressed the UKCMG forum hosted at the impressive ‘Magic Circle’ in London. We vi...Read More -
Invited to tender? Here’s what that really means
As a member of the The Supper Club (an invite only membership club for entrepreneurs, part of Prelude Group), Stephen Davis, founder and managing d...Read More -
IBM Rational Performance Tester – Enable application scalability before deployment
Application failure due to performance-related problems is preventable with pre-deployment performance testing. After deploying applications, many ...Read More -
Do I have what it takes to run HP’s QuickTest Professional 11.0?
We have created a PDF documenting the system requirements for HP QTP, so you shouldn’t need to use trial and error to determine if it can be ...Read More -
Can IBM’s Rational Integration Tester be driven by another tool?
This was a question that we were recently asked, specifically if it could be driven by Cucumber. Some initial research showed that it was possible ...Read More -
WS-Security
We were recently working on a project that involved sending a high volume of inbound SWIFT messages into an internal repository which would generate r...Read More -
Olympics Website Feels The Burn
Many of us struggled with the Olympic websites during the games, ticketing for example was chaos, live monitoring revealed that just under 30% of the ...Read More -
Green Hat / Rational Integration Tester for TIBCO and SAP
TIBCO customers also deploying SAP typically have hundreds of interfaces including multiple standards, protocols and partners. The testing challeng...Read More -
What can LoadRunner 11.5 offer you?
LoadRunner 11.0 was released in September 2010, offering us a newly designed interface amongst other new features. Now though, 11.5 has been r...Read More -
HP LoadRunner Software
How do you know whether your mission-critical applications meet the performance and scalability that your business requires? How do you decrease th...Read More -
Custom Functions
In addition to the 45 functions included with Rational Integration Tester, we’ve built up a library of additional functions that have been us...Read More
