RSW Software Monday released e-TEST suite 4.0, a testing solution designed to meet
the requirements
of large scale Web applications.
Enhancements in this release include the ability to emulate tens of
thousands of users on low-cost NT workstations, extend Visual Scripts using
standard programming languages, and track server-side statistics to help
detect performance bottlenecks. RSW believes that their new e-TEST suite
4.0 provides users with the power and flexibility to “handle the most
challenging testing problems and still meet the highly compressed
development schedules typical of Web applications.” Key features of e-TEST
suite 4.0 include:
- Scalability – generate more loads per agent machine by increasing the
page throughput up to 5 times over previous versions; can generate as many
as 1000 virtual users per single-processor NT workstation and create tens
of thousands of virtual users
- Extensibility – fully extensible with standard programming languages to
handle many testing challenges; the e-TEST Programming Interface provides
programmatic access to every object on every page of a Visual Script; test
“Scriptlets” can be inserted into the Visual Scripts, allowing users to
extend the functionality by using VBscript
- Server Side Diagnostics and Alarms – the “ServerStats” utility provides
access to server-side statistics to help users isolate the cause of
performance bottlenecks identified by e-LOAD; e-TEST suite 4.0 supports
Solaris, Windows NT, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQLServer, Microsoft ASP,
BroadVision, Oracle and others
- Reporting – the e-REPORTER utility features enhanced graphing and reporting
capabilities; the ability to view multiple test runs on a single graph,
combine server-side activity and client-side metrics, and create a broad
variety of customized Excel style graphs and charts
e-TEST suite 4.0 will be available for Windows-based platforms on Nov. 22. Pricing will start at $4995.
