Category Archive : Down to Business

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 delivery or someone taking holiday at just the wron...

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 ‘live’. Here are the top five reasons w...

Would your business cope if a critical application or website was subjected to increased demand or stress? For clients who need to check that their new critical applications and upgrades will...

“StarBase has helped turn the EFT Performance Testing engine from Fiat to Ferrari horsepower!” StarBase recently engaged with a client, on a project that had over-run and had miss...

Sainsbury’s cancels Christmas A major IT systems failure has meant many Sainsbury’s customers have had their Christmas delivery slots cancelled. “We experienc...

Black-Cloud Friday Today’s headlines of police being called to keep the peace at Black Friday sales show that consumers will fight-in-the-aisles for perceived bargains. Online it may be...

We put people into a range of stretching projects, some outside their comfort zone, nevertheless supported by management and colleagues and measured with feedback from peers, leaders and clients. In a...

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 the obvious technical requirements. At StarBase we...

  IBM Rational (Green Hat) technology is used by clients who are challenged with testing complex applications. Using Rational technology to virtualise services enables you to do complex testing with...

StarBase are already seeing the benefits of service virtualisation in performance testing but sometimes benefits can come from unexpected areas. A recent example was for a project which involved high ...

One of our regular major headaches on performance testing projects is test data. Either we can’t use production data because it is sensitive, or we don’t have enough data, or the test d...

For consumers, the benefits of exploiting cloud computing provision have been comprehensively documented. Fundamentally, the 'cloud' encapsulates the provision of virtualised application services, exp...

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 only fair and reasonable that we should now justify o...

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 IBM, HP and Spirent. Take some time out to watch the...

The Financial services sector has attracted media attention in recent months for all the wrong reasons. Software failures have led to angry customers not having access to their money, missing payments...

Stephen Davis, StarBase founder and MD, provides an insight about his experience in starting his own company. Why did you start StarBase? “The reason I started StarBase was ba...

Stephen Davis, StarBase founder and MD of StarBase, discusses the threats posed by the economic climate and off-shore competition. What do you think will be the biggest challenge for StarBase...

As a member of the The Supper Club (an invite only membership club for entrepreneurs, part of Prelude Group), Stephen Davis, founder and managing director of StarBase was recently interviewed by th...