Is there any API or command line tools for getting iOS application statistics? I did read about the Java Reporter and Autoingestion tools but they are extensive enough in terms of reports. I need to get a report like every month how many users installed, uninstalled, where are they from, etc. There is some data in the sales report its not exactly what we are looking for. I am only concerned about usage and installation statistics and not sales or finance.
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My client gave me a Sitecore website to do some performance testing.I really don't have any expirence with Sitecore website or Sitecore itself (which I am working on now).I have some idea of performance testing of a website and also got additional info from stackflow. But I am curious to know if there is any difference in testing a Sitecore website? What is the best practice to test a Sitecore website? Little bit about the performance testing scope:
The website handles different kind of enrollment path for students. So there are a couple of enrollment paths , all of which ends with a payment done by the customer.There can be more than 1 student enrolling at a time (like 6 together). Performance testing will include enrollments for all of these paths.
A lot of customers trying to enroll at the same time in the same enrollment path and different enrollment paths.
Also have to keep in mind that since this is a customer facing website the images/texts/files that are hosted in Sitecore should be shown in the website quite quickly.
Any help is appreciated.Thanks!
Typically there are three ways to come at perforamce testing for Sitecore.
The first is that it's basically just a web application, so most tools you'd use to test those are valid. Load testing tools like jMeter (or Windows equivalents) that simulate requests to pages and measure response times can give you an idea of how your Sitecore application works under load. Or the developer tools in browsers can show you how long individual requests take, and what resources are being downloaded. Both can help you form a picture of the site's overall performance levels.
The second is that Sitecore includes some tools for measuring how hard Sitecore itself is working to render pages. The "Experience Editor" (the WYSIWYG view for editing web page content) has a "debug" mode which can tell you how many content items are being read to render a page, what UI components are being run and how long these things are taking. This can help you tweak how code queries Sitecore's databases, and how components are cached in order to increase performance.
Thirdly, any ASP.Net application can have low-level performance tracing done with standard .Net tools. Visual Studio's performance tracing tools, or 3rd party stuff like dotTrace can all give you a detailed view of how long IIS spends working on individual pages, and what parts of the code are taking the most time or memory.
I wrote up a user-group presentation I did on this topic a while back:
https://jermdavis.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/measure-if-you-want-to-go-faster/
and more recently I wrote about some general patterns you might see when doing low-level performance traces:
https://jermdavis.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/spotting-common-challenges-when-youre-doing-performance-tracing/
Sitecore is basically a .NET-based content management system so there should not be any difference from other web applications performance testing so the same approach applies.
The best entry-level document I've seen over the web so far is Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, you can quickly get familiarized with the concept of load testing, how to implement it, what metrics need to be considered, etc.
With regards to load testing tool, the most natural choice would be Microsoft Visual Studio Load Testing Framework, however it assumes having a relevant license and some C# coding skills. If you don't have any of these you can consider one of free and open source load testing tools.
While creating your script keep in mind that each virtual user needs to represent real user as close as possible so mind cookies, headers, cache, think times, distribution of virtual user groups, etc.
I'm considering developing a free non-enterprise Windows 8-style application. I would like to be able to distribute it with no fees charged to myself or users. (Please not that I am not asking about Windows 7-style desktop applications.)
From Microsoft Community, it seems that the only way to distribute these types of applications is using Windows Store. In fact, since the removal of the term, metro, it appears to me that one of the replacement phrases is Windows Store Apps, which clearly implies a strong association with Windows Store.
The licence agreement for the store appears to support distributing free applications. However, I've also read that there is no (permanently) free way to use the store as a developer. (See this, for example.) Microsoft does appear to market some 'free' methods to do this, but they appear to be first-year-free subscriptions that still require credit card details for subsequent years.
I have already looked at and considered the following Stack Overflow questions about this:
How to Distribute Compiled Windows 8 Metro Applications without Windows Store?
This question appears to be in the context of using pre-release Windows 8 before the store was available.
How to install a Windows 8 App Without Submitting to Store
This appears to be related to enterprise users and applications.
How can I distribute a free Windows 8 application without having to pay for a Windows Store developer account?
You cannot. A store account is required to distribute applications in the Windows Store; however, there are programs in which that cost ($49 per annum for a individual developer) is absorbed, such as MSDN subscriptions and BizSpark.
Sideloading (as mentioned in the first link you provided) remains possible, but requires (and automatically provisions) a free 'developer' account to run it.
Sort of.
What you do is you go to the Store menu, and hit "build store package." When it asks you whether you want to build something for store, you hit no.
You will be presented with a directory that contains a .sh1 script, which you can then use to install the application.
The downside is, this requires enterprise windows or a (free) developers' license to install. So it's not general population adequate.
Now, I should point out that .EXEs still work just fine the old way. There is only an impediment if you mean Modern UI applications.
We are rolling out a global instance of TFS 2010 in our organisation which will be used both internally and externally (vendors). I'd like to be able to get some reports of the daily activity across all the Team Project Collections and Team Projects for things like:
Total number of Team Projects
Total number of Checkins/changesets per day/month/etc
Total number of bugs/issues logged per day/month/etc
Total number of bugs/issues resolved per day/month/etc
Datbase sizes for Team Project Collections
This information will be incrediably useful to help understand what the uptake and usage is like. It will also help to plan when/how we are going to need to scale our environment.
What's the best way to acheive this? Building my own custom reports in SSRS? Creating custom web parts for our integrated SharePoint environment? Or, are there any products out there that can help?
I'm looking for a some sort of management/reporting tool that collects the results of tests, stores them for reporting, then lets users generate reports based on those tests.
We have numerous test running tools that run on a variety of platforms, but all output test results in the JUnit format. The test are not specific to hardware or platform, but rather generic. What we would like to do is have an automated (or manual) test run be able to submit it to a central location along with additional information, like platform, OS, hardware configuration and maybe user defined data. The management/reporting tool would store this data.
Then, a manager would be able to go to the tool and request (or more likely, access a dashboard that developers have setup) an update on the current status. This could be a list of test results that were run in a particular configuration, or a hardware status, or just the results of specific test(s).
Any suggestions?
We built a test management tool Enterprise Tester (www.enterprisetester.com) that allows users to pull automated test results in nUnit, nUnit, XSLT, Selenium etc and report off the results.
In addition to pulling the results and reporting you are able to trace these tests back to requirements that have been created giving you the ability to see test coverage and the status of this coverage on dashboards. If you are using JIRA (or google) or anything that uses open social gadgets you can pass these gadgets to other tools also.
Feel free to contact me directly if you would like to talk further about it
Regards
Bryce
You can also try an open source project called Allure Framework. It was created specially for showing test execution results in a nice form. A set of popular test frameworks such as JUnit, PHPUnit, TestNG, py.test, RSpec, Scalatest are already supported. Other ones such as NUnit will be supported soon.
Check out Hudson. it's very useful and configurable
I'm looking to develop an offline version of an application that still needs to connect to the live site to retrieve the information and store results.
The application is for an online course system, that now needs to work when an internet connection is either unavailable or flaky. The system currently tracks each page viewed of the course (with flash and video content) and then also displays and tracks the taking of multiple choice exams. This all needs to be provided offline. I'm thinking that the program will connect through the users account at the start to download either a portion or all of the course, including exams and then at the end connect again to upload the results. (It'd be cool if it could do the process automatically when a connection is available.) The application needs to look similar to the online version and needs to be easy to use (easy install, little user input required for upload/download of results).
I have done a bit of research and it looks like Adobe AIR might be a good middle ground between the online version and an offline version.
My biggest issue is that I don't have experience developing desktop applications as I am a PHP developer, so I'm looking for something like AIR that bridges the gap. (The online version is a LAMP application.)
Has anyone used Adobe AIR for this type of offline application? How easy and secure was it?
Are there other solutions out there?
I think AIR is a great choice for this. I use AIR all the time now for in house utilities I write.
The built-in database and persistent store are great.
From your description, it sounds like Google Gears is a little closer to what you're looking for.
Adobe AIR is a great solution for this. We are building something similar. But we are facing problems in resuming downloads if the download process gets broken.