CYRANO Announces the Release of OpenSTA Version 1.0.0 Beta 1; a New Approach to End-to-End Management, Performance Testing, and Monitoring of e-Business Applications.Business Editors, High Tech Writers BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2001 CYRANO CYRANO CYcle-free Responsive Algorithm for Network Optimization today announced the availability of version 1.0.0 beta 1 of OpenSTA(TM) (Open System Testing (testing) system testing - (Or "application testing") A type of testing to confirm that all code modules work as specified, and that the system as a whole performs adequately on the platform on which it will be deployed. Architecture) which includes a re-designed User Interface that makes it possible for Test Engineers to manage complex e-business testing scenarios easily and efficiently. OpenSTA(TM) is a free and open source software See free software and open source. distribution that allows Project Managers, QA Managers, Test Engineers and Development staff to perform load and stress testing Determining the durability of a system by pushing it to its limits. Stress testing a network is performed by transmitting excessive numbers of packets or attempting to break in illegally. of e-business applications. Using OpenSTA(TM), users can realistically simulate thousands of virtual users and generate precise performance measurement and analysis statistics. This information can be used to validate the ability of the application infrastructure to handle expected loads while maintaining desired response times. By pinpointing the causes of performance problems, OpenSTA(TM) also expedites the process of tuning and improving complex multi-tier e-business infrastructures. OpenSTA(TM) is licensed under GNU GPL See GNU General Public License. , and the source code and installable can be found on http://opensta.org. "The OpenSTA(TM) Project is built upon a legacy of over 15 years of software tool development experience and onsite consulting services for implementing automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. systems", said Noelle Beaudin, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development for CYRANO. "Our approach to testing reflects the experience we, and our customers, have gained working 'in the trenches' implementing tests to analyze a broad spectrum of system characteristics. As a result, we have inherited the ability to understand how to produce verifiable sets of reports from results as analyzed in large multi-tier heterogeneous environments where pinpointing performance issues can cause enormous difficulty." "OpenSTA(TM) is now being used by CYRANO consultants and in organizations worldwide", Beaudin concluded. "We have gotten tremendous support from our users and developers in the open source community. This also furthers our belief in our original decision to give, freely, a powerful and useful tool to the community so that testing could become an affordable option to small businesses as well as a standard and included part of the development lifecycle of any project." The Open Source Advantage Numerous, high-visibility projects have proven that by not capturing the user session correctly can lead to inexact in·ex·act adj. 1. Not strictly accurate or precise; not exact: an inexact quotation; an inexact description of what had taken place. 2. results from performance testing Performance Testing covers a broad range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: Rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics. . The decision to adopt Open Source for the OpenSTA(TM) replay engine means that customers and competitors can have direct access to the source code itself. Therefore it was important that OpenSTA(TM) be able to adopt a policy of replaying exactly what had been captured so that exact duplication of the original e-business application interaction can apply, since users would be able to look inside at our source code. OpenSTA(TM) uses a proxy mechanism to capture all communications between the user and the system under test. By directly capturing this traffic into a script, the software ensures that all connections and events are maintained in their proper chronological order. By directly controlling the replay, OpenSTA(TM) removes any variances that may occur due to the use of a proprietary browser. Products that rely on a browser-based replay engine cannot guarantee that the load is an exact representation of what has been captured because each browser-replay can have a different chronological sequence Noun 1. chronological sequence - a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" chronological succession, succession, successiveness, sequence temporal arrangement, temporal order - arrangement of events in time of events. A fundamental benefit of OpenSTA(TM)'s non-browser-based approach is the ability to view all interactions within the captured script. When viewing the captured script the user can see all requests made to the web server including any requests that were automatically made by the browser. As a result, the Results Analysis produced from OpenSTA(TM) allows the users to drill down to the lowest level of detail so that performance problems can be easily pinpointed. "In long-term ownership, Open Source applications present many unique advantages over closed-source counterparts", remarked Robert Ernens, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CYRANO. "These advantages include the ability for the users to look inside the software and make adjustments or recommendations based on their specific needs, and even change it to meet the specific needs of their business. Open Source applications are owned by the people that use them and share in the development process just as the developers that devote themselves to improving the software on a day-to-day basis. As a result, because it is not owned by a software vendor that could be subject to business risk, you can be sure that OpenSTA(TM) will be available as long as the demand for its capabilities exists." About OpenSTA(TM) OpenSTA(TM) (Open System Testing Architecture) is a free and Open Source distributed testing environment that enables you to perform realistic e-business applications heavy load or stress tests with performance measurement. Resource utilization information from Web servers, application servers, database servers and Operating Systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. under test can be monitored, graphed and analyzed along with the gathered Web response times. This allows testing consultants or other technically proficient individuals to performance test e-business applications so that they can reduce business risk, perform capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. effectively and increase their return on investment. About Cyrano CYRANO is a public company listed on the EuroNM of the Paris Bourse Paris Bourse National stock market of France. (Reuters: CYRA.LN, Sicovam 3922). Formed in 1989 and publicly traded since 1998, CYRANO is headquartered in Paris, France, with regional headquarters in the UK and USA. CYRANO is one of the world leaders For a list of heads of state, see . World leaders is a MMORPG. The game involves creating a state, joining an alliance and going into war. It is mostly played by players from Israel, China, USA, Britain, Brazil and Saudi-Arabia. in the software testing Software testing is the process used to measure the quality of developed computer software. Usually, quality is constrained to such topics as correctness, completeness, security, but can also include more technical requirements as described under the ISO standard ISO 9126, such , monitoring and quality assurance marketplace. By providing industry-leading software for web performance testing, functional and regression testing In software development, testing a program that has been modified in order to ensure that additional bugs have not been introduced. When a program is enhanced, testing is often done only on the new features. and web application monitoring (WebTester), database performance testing and analysis (Impact and Workbench), database monitoring (Production), network and firewall vulnerability testing (NV e-secure), legacy understanding and testing (Wincap and Test) and strategic consulting and education offerings, CYRANO is an end-to-end quality assurance provider to its customers, helping them maximize their IT investments and ensure uninterrupted e-business. CYRANO offers integrated solutions, service and support to companies that want to minimize risk, benchmark Service Level Agreements and enable Capacity Planning for their IT infrastructures. |
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