dynaTrace Introduces Test Center Standard Edition for web application Test Centers
challenged to do more with less
New Edition increases test efficiency by automatically isolating most common web
application issues that surface under load, accelerating problem resolution by 10x
Boston – 31 March 2009 – dynaTrace software, the leader in continuous application
performance management across the lifecycle for business critical Java and .NET
applications, today announced dynaTrace Test Center Standard Edition, an entry priced
solution for test centers challenged with the need to increase test coverage and
fidelity with less time and resources than ever before. This new edition provides
test centers of all sizes an enterprise-class solution for increasing the efficiency
of web application load testing, eliminating the need to reproduce issue or re-run
tests while automating the documentation of application issues in a development-centric
manner. By doing so, Test Center Standard Edition streamlines the interaction between
test/QA and development to reduce the mean-time-to-resolve the most common web application
issues by 90% or more.
Studies suggest that 25% of Tester’s time is wasted cycling back
and forth with development on issues surfacing in load tests. Similarly, as much
as 20% of developers’ time can be wasted in this same inefficient
process. Load-test software, such as Load Runner, JMeter or Visual Studio Team System,
are valuable in exposing potential application problems, but provide no visibility
into the application and do not isolate and pinpoint the root cause of issues for
development to resolve. Companies often attempt to identify root cause with ineffective
manual approaches, resulting in frequent, frustrating “ping-pong” discussions between
test and development. And because root-cause isolation is so difficult, known issues
often remain unresolved, moving on to become exponentially more expensive problems
in production.
dynaTrace Test Center Standard Edition solves these problems by bringing an enterprise-class
test center diagnostic solution – proven in the world’s most demanding organizations
such as UBS, LinkedIn and SAS – to QA departments who need a more systematic and
automated solution for Java and .Net applications.
Key features:
- Rapid diagnosis and isolation of most common web application issues, including database
access performance issues, chattiness, latency and interdependencies in clustered,
virtualized and distributed applications, uncaught and hidden exceptions, system
performance and JVM/CLR metrics including GC and memory metrics,
- Automatic documentation of application issues in a development-centric manner, with
full PurePath context (SQL statements, SQL bind values, exceptions, log messages,
remoting payload, Web form and URL parameters, Web service endpoints etc) and true
transaction detail across distributed applications,
- Out of the box integration with most popular Load test environments (such as LoadRunner,
JMeter, Visual Studio Team System, SilkPerformer, ProxySniffer, Neotys, and iTKO/Lisa)
for fast time to value,
- Best-in-class memory diagnostics as an additional add-on (leveraging the dynaTrace
lightweight agent for deep memory dumps that work even where regular tools like
profilers fail), automated memory diagnostics, and full, deep reference and trend
analysis for fastest memory leak diagnostics, and
- Seamless upgrade to dynaTrace Test Center Edition for enterprises, which includes
additional capability and flexibility for the most demanding web and non-web application
test and performance centers.
“We’re really excited about dynaTrace for performance testing,” said Mike Demastrie,
Software QA Manager at Novell. “We’ve developed a distributed, asynchronous Agile
process and test is a vital part of that. Our ability with dynaTrace for testers
to quickly isolate and document performance issues that they can immediately share
with developers wherever they’re located is essential to that process.”
dynaTrace Test Center Standard Edition is available now. Customers who purchase
Test Center Standard Edition and choose to upgrade to Test Center Edition for enterprises
within the first year after purchase will receive full trade-in value.
To request a free trial of dynaTrace Test Center Standard Edition, click
here. For more information about dynaTrace Test Center Standard Edition,
visit http://www.dynatrace.com/TCSE.
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About dynaTrace software Inc.
dynaTrace is the leader in continuous application performance management across
the lifecycle for business critical Java and .NET applications. dynaTrace is the
only solution that provides a common, integrated performance management platform
for all key stakeholders - development, test and production. Industry leaders such
as UBS, LinkedIn, EnerNOC, Fidelity, and Thomson Reuters use dynaTrace’s patent
pending technology to gain full visibility into application performance, identify
problems sooner and dramatically reduce the mean time to repair by as much as 90%.
These and other leading companies rely on dynaTrace to proactively prevent performance
problems from happening and quickly resolve those that do occur – saving time, money
and resources.
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Contact:
dynaTrace Software Inc.
Lisa Robinson Schoeller, +1781.768.4907