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I have to test windows 8.1 app for tablet. App has to be tested for nearly 1500 users. Technical description: Image file between 2-20 mb will be uploaded and downloaded. With increasing number of user upto 1500 I also have to capture the time required when the user load is say 400, 800, 1200 and finally1500.
Please share your valuable suggestion how can I achieve this with minimum effort as my team is running out of time. I have thought about jmeter, soap ui, load runner. If you know any other tool please share your thoughts.
Short answer: go with JMeter with JMeter Plugins.
Soap UI is not a load testing tool, but Load UI is. It has a pretty visual interface which is good for beginners, but not so convinient when you have a lot of tests to run. Last time I tryed it there also were some performance issues in the tool itself.
Load runner is good choice if you have some expertise in it (there are a lot of checkboxes and radio buttons). It has a lot of protocols supported and you could "record" the user session and then replay it like it was more users. Sometimes it works out-of-the-box, sometimes you will then need to tune your test.
If you are familiar with your app, the better way is to define the requests which you will be sending to your server manually because that gives you more control. JMeter has a GUI for that. If you go with JMeter you should consider downloading JMeter Plugins that make load tester's work with the tool much more convinient.
If you want more tools, have a look at:
Gatling tool
Twitter's Iago
Yandex Tank (that's the one I use at work for testing web services under heavy load)
I have to mention also that with all these tools you'll be able to measure only the server's performance and not the frontend. Testing the frontend is the different and distinct task. For example you may apply heavy load with JMeter and try to use your app during that in order to see what kind of user experience would you have when there are a lot of users.
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I'm building a command line tool where I can execute commands like this on the input:
PROMPT>userName=Seán<CR>
PROMPT>zodiacSign=Virgo<CR>
where userName is a string type and zodiacSign is of type enumerator.
I also have auto-complete such that I can hit the tab key and get clues, like this
PROMPT>zodiacSign=C<TAB>
Cancer
Capricorn
PROMPT>zodiacSign=Ca
The thing is that I'm getting more and more subtle requirements which I'm finding more and more difficult to document into User Stories. For example, I just received the requirement where if I hit carriage-return for the following:
PROMPT>zodiacSign=Can<CARRIAGE-RETURN>
The software should then auto-complete the command zodiacSign=Cancer and execute it since it is the only option.
I will put in place function tests to test each of these nuances. By doing this, I can demo User Stories via my Function Tests.
But what convenient tool would you recommend where I can store requirements / user stories, perhaps even linking them to function tests? Perhaps this tool includes coverage graphs.
Who is the audience for the requirements? If it is a developer, I'd say that the version control system is a great place to store them. :-)
I would recommend the use of Cucumber or FitNesse. Using the tests as requirements is the way to go.
Cucumber example:
Scenario:
If a single match is available and the carriage return is pressed
auto-complete should accept the match
Given valid Zodiac Signs are "Cancer,Capricorn"
When the user enters "zodiacSign=Can<CARRIAGE-RETURN>" at the prompt
Then the shell should auto-complete to "zodiacSign=Cancer"
This is a completely executable test and does well to describe the required functionality.
Hope that helps!
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Take a look at FitNesse. It's a combination of a requirements Wiki and functional test execution framework.
When you write the requirements, you put them in a table where you have sample data and expected results. Click "test" and FitNesse parses the table, and makes the call. Pretty cool.
FitNesse is indeed a popular tool, but some would argue that FitNesse is evil (it can be misused easily, and suffers from numerous issues). A good open-source cross-platform alternative would be soapUI.
soapUI can manage functional testing, as well as keep track of your system's requirements, use cases and user stories, and link them to the tests.
It has a nice GUI with what-not (including coverage graphs, like you want!). Most of the features are included in the free version.
For your need, take a look at QMetry.
It's a very complete tool that allow you to define requirements, test cases, test scenarios and also the launching of test scenarios.
Reporting is also nice and HMI is very user friendly.
Hope this help
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Are there any software platforms out there that can be used to run scripts that monitor stock market activity?
I would like to write a script to send myself alerts when certain market conditions occur. Ideally it would also have the ability to execute trades.
I'm not looking for anything super complicated and I do not need expensive real time data. I'm looking to do simple stuff like:
If "SDY" drops to 5% below the DOD, then sell 50% of "DOD" to buy SDY
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Looks like ETrade Offers an API. Not as simple as I'd like ideally, but here is is for anyone else who is interested in this question:
https://us.etrade.com/e/t/activetrading/api
From what I've seen, Tradelink does it all and supports multiple bourses, though it might be what you'd consider super-complicated. Possibly their most active API is for Interactive Brokers.
Other solutions appear to be brokerage-specific or not free.
For TD Ameritrade you might like their free StrategyDesk win32 downloadable; its simple trade automation is awesome. I don't even remember how I stumbled upon it since it's pretty well hidden or unadvertised in favor of their more modern platforms (all of which seem to lack trade automation though).
Even more defunct but equally useful might be Trade-Ideas, able to trade stocks based on rules and technical-analysis signals. It runs as a module of the ancient QuoteTracker or even stand-alone. In demo mode the signals are shown with 20min delay, but you can still place orders based on them in realtime...sweet! They support TD Ameritrade accounts and maybe also Scottrade, since ScottradeELITE software bundles in their Trade-Ideas module.
On the fringes, OptionsXpress has Xecute which basically links your account to a choice of investment advisory services to manage your portfolio for you, for a monthly fee.
Both OptionsXpress and TD Ameritrade offer developer API's which I've used, but still found their websites to be more feature-rich. So like with Scottrade I've actually written my own programs to drive their websites (nowadays using Ruby libraries Mechanize and Watir-Webdriver/Selenium) and perform live trades based on analysis and rules like yours my other programs prepare earlier.
Interactive Brokers has an API: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/main.php
RightEdge ( http://www.rightedgesystems.com/ ) is a framework, among others, that leverages that API.
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I'm beginning a new project of about 1 year of development (for the first version) done with multiple developers, testers, etc.
I'm wondering if something exist that could help me do the following:
List all user goals
Associate functions to these user goals
Associate requirements to these functions
Associate design activities to these requirements
Associate development tasks to these requirements
Associate tests to these requirement
Qualify tests (system test, regression test, developer test, automated or not)
This way, I could:
Track if the program developed fulfill all user goals
Track if all functions are tested
Do a test matrix traceability to know if each requirements is tested
Track tests to do if a function is to be changed
Track the time needed to develop a function (it can serve later to estimate the time needed to modify it or to add a similar function to the program)
List all system tests to do when a new version is shipped
List all regression tests to do
List all developer test to do when there is a change in the function
List all automated test, this way we could know what is the percentage of the functions that are automatically testes.
etc.
You can suggest open source or commercial programs.
The Atlassian suite of software would seem to be a good fit and is very cheaply priced for a few users ($10 for up to ten users). I've direct (and good!) experience of using JIRA and find it very simple to use and flexible enough for my needs. Another alternative would be FogBugz, but I've no first-hand experience of using this.
re FogBugz, it is well worth having a look at the processes behind it, having worked on many non software projects I believe it is a universally sound methodology (even if Joel is a little quirky in his thinking.....).
I use SmartSheet because it is simple, but still has heirachial tasking, as you have set out in the question. It is good at dealing with people, unlikely it is good at manageing code, whereas FogBugz presumably does that.
A key feature of SS over Atl and others is additional users cost nothing.
One decision you have to make is do you want the project plan to be output in a simple way which many stakeholders can understand, or detailed so you can track much activity. Obviously the detail will require effort.
You have made a good start by setting out the issues, your culture of management may well be more valuable than the tool you choose.
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For small-to-large teams developing software together, what tools are used to form a comprehensive team development framework?
Specifically, I'm looking for a comprehensive list of all the individual functions involved (e.g. source control, bug management, testing tools, project management), not specific product recommendations. I'm also not restricting the list to a particular methodology (e.g. Scrum).
Source control (obviously) including branch management
Issue tracking (features and bugs), possibly with task reassignment and forwarding, and often things like screen recording
Individual task management, sometimes integrated with the issue tracking system
Communication software. Some teams use emails and IMs even within the same building or tweets. There are some tools that integrated within the code so you could "chat around a piece of code". Screen and application sharing are also useful.
Good build tool.
Distributed pair programming tools if applicable, shared editors otherwise.
Similar support in case tools.
Less commonly used but promising tools (from academic background), some now have IDE based versions.
Real-time awareness (prevent nerge conflicts by letting you know somebody is working on the same file before you actually write code)
In-code social tagging, useful for bootmarking specific items
In-code contract communication tools (e.g., make a caller aware of special expectations in the invoked method as a way of avoiding errors).
You've hit the major ones in your post:
IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
Coding Guidelines (sometimes looked over, but it still helps tremendously)
Source Control
Testing Suite (Unit Testing, Test Case/Test Script Management and Tracking)
Issue Tracking/Bug Reporting
Build Management
...I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but somebody around here will correct me.
And the one I missed...
Diagraming software (I.E. Rational Software Modeler, etc.)
A few more:
Requirements management software
Code review software
Continuous integration tool
Documentation repository - e.g. Wiki
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Background
I recently joined a small start-up after working at a large company.
I'm not a professional system administrator, however, because of my programming and systems knowledge I am now the internal person managing our servers and infrastructure.
In the past, I never needed to document our system information: passwords (for servers, databases, routers, switches, etc), which servers were running which applications (both homemade and installed), server IP addresses, configuration file locations, etc...
The professional system admins always did this work, freeing me to focus on other areas.
Event that triggered urgency
I'd been a bit casual about moving this forward until I discovered that I didn't know where my main subversion configuration file was in /etc/apache2 (not to mention that the config file isn't under version control or backed up!) I realized that this needs to be addressed quickly.
Next step
I now have to figure out how to document all of this in a sane, elegant, access controlled manner.
I've heard of runbooks, but I don't know the best way or tools to manage them. My first thought was an excel/openoffice spreadsheet under version control.
Is there a good guide to maintaining runbooks? Good software? This must be a fairly common problem, how do you handle it?
I've actually had good success with a Wiki. Use something where you can control logins easily — Mediawiki is okay, but requires some PHP hacking — and build some templates for processes, inventories, and so forth.
Update
Actually, I must have needed coffee. Trac is pretty nearly ideal; better access control, integrated issue tracking, and a somewhat stronger text model. You can even tie it directly to your subversion repository so that you can hook actual scripts to their runbook pages.
Wikis are indeed a good approach. You can set up sharepoint for that and get nice features like update history, links that always point to current information and such.
If you use something like Puppet, (or Chef, or CFEngine, etc.) to build and manage your machines, then most of the runbook contents can live inside the puppet config, leaving you with a lot less stuff (just the location and password for the puppetmaster, if you take it to extremes!) to put in your wiki.