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"WebLoad: Professional and open source load testing", with Dean Ghanem

Sep 2008 18
Thu 12:00 PM
Location
Online meeting via Adobe Connect.

Meeting: tinyurl.com/cfmeetup
Recording: tinyurl.com/cfmrecordings
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Estimated attendance
 22  people attended.
4.00 4.006

Who organized?
Charlie Arehart

WHEN: Thursday, September 18, 12:00pm US EDT (UTC/GMT-4) (What time is that for you? See http://www.timeanddat... which shows the time as US EDT and you can choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone.)

MEETING URL: http://experts.acroba...
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.col...

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

We will have two speakers this week, at noon and 6pm EDT.

First up is Dean Ghanem, who works for Radview, the company behind WebLoad, which offers both professional and open source load testing solutions. I realize some will fear this seems a sales pitch, but I requested to have them present after finding the open source solution and thinking that it could be a good solution for many who either haven't done load testing, or have tried other solutions that were less full-featured or far more expensive. The company does have a professional version as well, and Dean will focus on that mostly (understandably), but my understanding is that much of what he shows will apply to using the open source version as well.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION:

If you’ve been interested in trying to load test your CF web applications, whether serving HTML or Flex clients, WebLoad (from Radview) offers a powerful, proven solution. In this talk, Dean Ghanem of Radview will introduce us to the solution, with a focus on the Professional edition and some brief discussion of the available open source edition. He’ll also focus primarily on using the tool with HTML-based web applications, with some discussion as well of their support for testing Flex web apps. Whether you’re a long-time tester new to WebLoad, or you’ve never gotten around to using load testing and want to learn about a simple, scalable solution, this talk’s for you.

SPEAKER:

Dean Ghanem is an SE Manager at RadView Software, the makers of the performance testing solution WebLOAD. RadView is a leader in the performance testing solution. Dean and his team have worked with several Web environments here in the US. These environments span in size and complexity across multiple industries. Dean has been working at RadView Software for 9 years. Prior to RadView, Dean was working at Ajilon Services as a Consultant and has been focused on Performance Management, Modeling and Testing solutions as well. Prior to that Dean worked as an integration engineer at Decalog.

RECORDING: As always, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording URL will be posted after the meeting at http://recordings.col....

PODCAST/DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:
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  • Charlie Arehart
    Posted Sep 18, 2008 8:09 PM
    Charlie Arehart
    Organizer
    I just noticed that John and a couple other people who were rankled about the discussion of a commercial product were in fact not on at the start, when I clearly made the point (1st minute in the recording) that it would include discussion of the commercial product, and that I'd invited Dean on. I guess I'm torn: it's too bad that they may have missed that in the intro, but it's also unfortunate that people who missed the beginning would raise concerns about something addressed at the outset.

Who attended?

  • 22 attendees
    • “ Product was good... but there is an open source and a pro version. The speaker failed in telling us what was what until the entire presentation was over. Then when asking about the price the host commented that the CF community has many that want everything for free and my question was avoided till very late in the presentation. Eventually they provided an email to get pricing. In spite of this the product seems to be a featured and interesting product. My suggestion is rework the information and as presenting let us know what is Open Source and what is free. This question was asked by others besides me. When presenting anything OS you are going to find it rough if people cannot find out what OS means. ”
    • “ I though the demo was very detailed, and although I may not use this technology, it was interesting to see it demonstrated. ”
    • “ excellent demo ”
    • “ John, the speaker had asked that all questions be held until the end (not that unusual), and when we did then start answering them, yours was answered in the exact order it was asked. Replay the video and you will see. Yes, I may have been a bit testy about the point being pressed, and yes, I do think that a segment of the CF community sometimes does press too hard against anything commercial. The point was made in the announcement, then at the start of the meeting, that this was going to cover a product that was both commercial and open source. I don't disagree that they could have done more to identify what was free and what was not. I made clear to them that this sort of issue might be sensitive. I would propose that they're simply used to presenting to audiences of clients and it was hard for Dean to break out of the mold he's been used to. Then, too, he has people he works with and for, who might naturally want folks to favor the paid edition. It's the nature of the beast. ”
    • “ It was very informative. ”
    • “ good information and something to try. a bit dry though ”

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