Enhanced Self-Service Load Testing Solution from Gomez Helps Businesses Deploy Web Applications with Confidence
Reality Load XF℠ Combines End-user Experience Testing with Traditional Load Testing
Lexington, Massachusetts — May 27, 2008 — Gomez, Inc.,
a leading provider of web experience management services, today
introduced an updated version of its self-service load testing
solution, Reality Load XF. Part of the Gomez® ExperienceFirst℠
platform, Reality Load XF combines traditional high volume web
application load testing with broad geographic end-user experience
testing, generating real-world, browser-driven traffic from a global
network of over 40,000 locations. An on-demand, software-as-a-service
solution, Reality Load XF addresses the performance challenges of
today’s composite and browser-based rich Internet technologies, such as
Ajax, and extends beyond traditional load testing services to reveal
the impact of load on the end-user’s experience.
“Businesses today are challenged to deliver increasingly complex
applications and struggle to use best practice approaches to load test
across all application and infrastructure changes,” said Gartner, Inc.
analyst Thomas E. Murphy. “Solutions that are flexible and provide a
more realistic and cost-effective analysis of the end-user’s actual web
experience will be a valuable addition to current approaches.”
For quality assurance teams, Reality Load XF augments existing
internal load testing with the end-user perspective, helping to
determine system capacity and address end-user experience issues before
launching or changing web applications, or investing in infrastructure
upgrades or third party services such as content delivery networks. For
IT operations, Reality Load XF helps to quickly identify weaknesses or
break points in end-user experience under real-world load conditions
prior to seasonal promotions, new product introductions, or entry into
new markets. Most tests can be up and running after an hour and users
can view the results live in near real-time.
“At EveryScape, delivering a quality online experience is a must in
our market today,” said Mok Oh, founder & CTO of EveryScape, Inc.,
which provides an interactive visual platform for local search by
creating virtual experiences of metropolitan, suburban and rural areas.
“Even in the current Internet age, risk is always introduced whenever
we make changes to our product or infrastructure, or are in situations
where increased traffic is expected. Being able to use Reality Load XF
on-demand whenever we feel the need to assess the potential impact on
our users’ experiences has been a great confidence booster.”
“Today’s composite web applications are assembled in the end-user’s
browser. So many elements — from browser, platform and device type, to
third party content, connection speed and ISP — can affect
performance,” said Imad Mouline, Gomez’s chief technology officer.
“Reality Load XF provides e-commerce, IT and quality assurance teams
with confidence when deploying applications and infrastructure.”
New features
Originally released in April 2007, the new version of Reality Load
XF, available today in the U.S., delivers an almost 10x capacity
increase.
New features include:
- More ISPs and geographies covered,
- Self-service test scheduling with diverse load testing profiles,
- Live reporting to see the impact of system tuning in real-time,
- New reports to see how load affects experience across geographies, pages and objects, and
- Enhanced administrative features that simplify multiple testing scenarios.
Pricing and Datasheet
Reality Load XF, like all Gomez services, is sold on an annual
subscription basis. A Reality Load XF datasheet can be downloaded from:
http://www.gomez.com/
Source: Gomez