Stress Tests Rain on Amazon’s Cloud

I figured as much, but it’s still disappointing to see my suspicions confirmed. On the plus side I only see the cloud getting better with time.
Stress tests conducted by Sydney-based researchers have revealed that the infrastructure-on-demand services offered by Amazon, Google and Microsoft suffer from regular performance and availability issues.The team of researchers, led by [...]

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Web Load Testing Brownbag

There are many options available for testing and loading a web application. Two popular options are from Microsoft and Apache.
Follow Along
Demo files: download
Remote Desktop to: ECS500 (use your UOECS login information)
Test PHP Application: http://shoki/gallery/ (“admin”/”gallery”)
Test ASP.NET Application: http://shoki/wiki/ (“admin”/”screwturn”)
Microsoft
Visual Studio, Team Suite and Test editions contain enterprise-grade testing features.
Resources
Introduction to Web and Load Testing from [...]

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Unit Tests and Stored Procedures

Despite my continued doubts about stored procedures and practical limits on their best practices usage, there’s no reason to forget all the other lessons I’ve learned about software just because I’m using them. Enter DbUnit, a database testing framework.
DbUnit is a JUnit extension (also usable with Ant) targeted at database-driven projects that, among other things, [...]

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