Performance Engineering Tools

According to the 2017-18 World Quality Report, 88% of companies surveyed are using or experimenting with DevOps, and that number is growing. Making the transformation is not easy, and it’s made even more complicated by tools that aren’t integrated with each other, do not communicate with each other, and do not offer end-to-end visibility into and collaboration across the DevOps pipeline.

Micro Focus recently introduced their DevOps Suite, consisting of best-of-breed lifecycle management (ALM Octane), functional and performance testing (StormRunner Functional and StormRunner Load), and production monitoring (AppPulse) tools.

Attend this webinar to hear about the DevOps Suite, and how it can help your team accelerate application delivery at high quality and scale. We’ll also show you an end-to-end demo of the products. Here is what you will learn:

• Challenges facing organizations making an agile or DevOps transformation today
• Why it’s critical for organizations to have DevOps tools that share data and insights with each other as well as being tightly integrated with the pipeline
• How the Micro Focus DevOps Suite provides you with lifecycle and
pipeline management, continuous functional and performance testing
from the cloud, and production monitoring for continuous assessment

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. In the eighth episode of this series, Harriet Jamieson interviews Dr. Mik Kersten, founder and CEO of Tasktop.

Mik, who has been voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker twice and is creator and leader of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project, will share how he founded Tasktop. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils.

Mik will share his expertise and take live audience questions on software development tools, productivity tools, application lifecycle management, Agile, Eclipse, Mylyn and Java.

The webinar will discuss how retailer apps are being used within the APAC region. Despite Asia Pacific being one of the most mobile-driven regions in the world, questions remain over of the effectiveness of apps in specific markets.

Criteo will share some of the findings from a recent survey across 3,000 app users on consumer mobile behaviour across six APAC markets (Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, India & South Korea). A better understanding of how consumers view the in-app purchasing journey is crucial for
brands to enhance this form of brand-customer interaction, and will be discussed during this session.

The webinar will reveal essential information for brands hoping to increase sales within the region over the coming weeks, months and years.

For this Vivit SIG Talk session, 2 Performance Testing thought leaders will be featured. They will share their knowledge and expertise with you.

Below is a quick outline of the agenda and topics for you:

Speaker: Scott Moore - Performance Testing Internet of Things:

• An overview of IoT architecture and protocols
• A deeper look into the MQTT and CoAP protocols specifically
• A demonstration of how to test the performance of IoT applications using LoadRunner 12.55

Speaker: Chris Trimper - Using Splunk to Analyze Performance Metrics:

• Introduction to Splunk
• Process of preparing LR data for Splunk consumption
• Building dashboards and performing analytics in Splunk

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, March 13, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1073255&group=.

Performance Testing Internet of Things

Scott Moore will take a dive into performance testing Internet of Things (IoT) applications and platforms. It includes a deeper look into two of the most popular protocols being used today: MQTT and CoAP. Learn how you can ensure your IoT platform and applications scale and reduce the risk of failure under load in highly constrained environments.

What will be covered:

• An overview of IoT architecture and protocols
• A deeper look into the MQTT and CoAP protocols specifically
• A demonstration ofhow to test the performance of IoT applications using LoadRunner 12.55

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, March 13, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1073255&group=.

Brought to you by the Vivit DevOps Special Interest Group.
DevOps is setting the pace as numerous organizations struggle to keep up…especially with test automation. It's imperative to have an automation test strategy allowing fast automation script development, solid data management, minimal maintenance, and scalability. This presentation will provide an overview of implementing a strategic test automation framework in a DevOps environment, and is completely tool agnostic. So, whether your team is utilizing UFT, UFT Pro, LeanFT, Selenium, or any other automation solution, you’ll benefit from this presentation.

Audience will learn:

• Essential components of a test automation framework
• Strategies to effectively implement an automation framework
• Effective approach to meet Agile and CI/CD test automation objectives

Moving Your Script Development Practices into the Late 20th Century

When it comes to standard hygiene practices in writing code, the performance testing world lags decades behind the software development world. Support for version control has only been added to performance testing tools in recent years. What is the next decades-old software development practice that performance testers should adopt?

Join us for the next Quality & Testing SIG Talk on Tuesday, February 13, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1057043&group=.

Award-winning JustPark is the UK’s leading parking app, with more than 1.5 million users and over £1m in transactions each month. In 2015, its first crowd funding effort broke records, reaching £3.5m. Its second round – which is still in progress - raised £1m in just three hours.

With investment in the second round currently sitting at just over £2m, we talk to one of the app’s senior developers about how JustPark will develop for scale, and its plans for taking on the £50bn UK parking industry.

Discussions will include:

• Recommendations for scaling for a growing user base

• Coding environments, standards and styles

• Mobile payments and integration

Vivit launches their first ever SIG Talk event with three speakers who will give you insights into StormRunner Functional, Dynamic data handling in performance tests as well as AI and machine learning as it applies to testing.

We will discuss:

•How StormRunner Functional is the latest functional test offering from Micro Focus. In this session, Chris Trimper, an early adopter and beta tester, will share his experiences with this new product

•How Virtual Table Server (VTS), in days of Mercury Interactive, was the often-overlooked repository for dynamically updated real-time test data. Even after a revamp and relaunch in 2014, many people still don't use it, but they should. Richard's VTS demo will help you to get value from this great add-on for LoadRunner and Performance Center

•How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning are rapidly impacting businesses and customers, enabling another massive shift through technology enablement. In this session, Todd DeCapua will share how these capabilities are being leveraged in Performance Engineering now, and into the future

Join us for the next Quality & Testing SIG Talk on Tuesday, January 9, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1041157&group=.

Virtual Table Server (VTS)

We will discuss how Virtual Table Server (VTS), in days of Mercury Interactive, was the often-overlooked repository for dynamically updated real-time test data. Even after a revamp and relaunch in 2014, many people still don't use it, but they should. Richard's VTS demo will help you to get value from this great add-on for LoadRunner and Performance Center.

Join us for the next Quality & Testing SIG Talk on Tuesday, January 9, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1041157&group=.

StormRunner Functional

We will discuss how StormRunner Functional is the latest functional test offering from Micro Focus. Chris Trimper, an early adopter and beta tester, will share his experiences with this new product.

Join us for the next Quality & Testing SIG Talk on Tuesday, January 9, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1041157&group=.

Today’s world of testing is a marathon! Testing teams are required to test more environments and mobile devices, without damaging the quality of their applications. They are required to test much earlier in the cycle, and to provide constant visibility, enabling development teams to have a short feedback loop in order to run faster and meet the business demand. This creates a big challenge for testing teams to keep up with the rapid pace of change without compromising on quality.

In this webinar, Eran will introduce you to StormRunner Functional, the very first and only hybrid test execution service to support the Micro Focus testing tools with Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and UFT Pro (LeanFT), as well as the popular and open source Selenium. Learn how it can help you improve your testing and achieve faster execution times.

Key Takeaways:

•Leverage your existing testing assets in a variety of ways: run them remotely to utilize SRF’s on-demand virtual lab or upload them for faster parallel execution and runtime scalability
•Create new testing assets from scratch using SRF’s online recording service for both web and mobile. This allows you to go “full-SaaS”, from test design to test execution and lab
•Design and execute your exploratory sessions on all your apps: native, hybrid, and web apps
•Identify and investigate the changes in your apps with SRF’s advanced root-cause analysis, and submit defects to your defect management tools

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Testing, Quality, Application Lifecycle Management Special Interest Group.

Transition to Agile development with confidence while you leverage your existing QA investments. See how ALM Octane helps teams build quality code and implement automated test management for complex applications.

In this session, you will be hearing about:

•Best practices across the Plan-Build-Test-Track phases of the Software Development Lifecycle to ensure quality application releases
•Gaining visibility and traceability across the lifecycle, while working at enterprise scale across tens/hundreds of teams
•Leveraging your choice of CI/CD pipeline for faster delivery and meet the demands for Agile portfolio management with governance and compliance
•Learning how to ramp up your Agile/DevOps practice today

ALM QC 12.55 has just been released in August, providing enhanced features and benefits for Application teams, end users and ALM admins working together to deliver high quality applications with confidence.

Join us as we review the key newly released capabilities of ALM/QC 12.55 and walk through a live demo.

ALM/QC 12.55 Highlights include:

•Test board enhancements providing improved user experience for test management and execution
•Support for Quality of Things (QoT) – ALM client for offline/online Internet of Things (IoT) & device manual testing
•Improved collaboration through integration of Skype for business
•Upgraded administration with ability to back up large files
•Synchronization tools connecting ALM to other management tools such as JIRA, TFS and RTC

We will also discuss the benefits of ALM Octane – our next-generation ALM product with Agile and DevOps capabilities built in, and how you can get started today!

Agile works well for small, co-located teams that can hover around sticky notes on a Kanban board, and collaborate on-demand. But as initiatives become more complex, and teams become dispersed, Agile can be difficult to scale across the enterprise.

What’s missing in Agile practices today is the ability to see the whole picture. With user stories as the source of record for an application, it’s hard to connect all the dots to see the complete functionality of a feature or capability. Think about the new team who will be developing additional features on that capability - where can they learn everything it does today? How will they know the impact their changes will have on that capability or potentially other capabilities? How will they collaborate on those changes and get them reviewed in a timely manner? How will your business stakeholder understand the impact of new those changes to the overall business process? Storyteller provides a centralized reusable searchable repository of exiting business and technical process models and requirements (business, non-functional and regulatory). In addition we also offer rich visualization, collaboration and review functionalities. These base capabilities are being used today to address the questions above. And - we do it in a way that everyone can understand from Business Stakeholders down to developers and testers.

Storyteller is a key player in Enterprise Agile. We bridge the business gaps in the current agile process. For companies struggling with Agile Transformation, we providing guardrails around writing user stories and feature decomposition. Project teams can save time and effort by using our user story and test plan generation which can them be automatically synched over to ALM tools. We are also a key player in the BizDevOps chain by providing that upfront business alignment so what is produced though “Dev” and delivered and maintained by “Ops” is exactly what “Biz” wanted.

HDFS on Kubernetes: Lessons Learned is a webinar presentation intended for software engineers, developers, and technical leads who develop Spark applications and are interested in running Spark on Kubernetes. Pepperdata has been exploring Kubernetes as potential Big Data platform with several other companies as part of a joint open source project.

In this webinar, Kimoon Kim will show you how to: 

–Run Spark application natively on Kubernetes
–Enable Spark on Kubernetes read and write data securely on HDFS protected by Kerberos