Alex Forbes

SmartBear Software has unveiled LoadComplete 2.0, the latest version of the company's load testing tool for Web applications. Featuring new support for rich Internet applications (RIAs), LoadComplete 2.0 now makes it easy to create and run realistic load tests, without scripting, for websites built using Adobe Flash and Flex, AJAX, and Microsoft Silverlight technologies. New data presentation and reporting options make it easier for users to control data parameters and interpret and diagnose results to improve the performance, reliability, and user experience of Web applications. Mathijs Groen, QA Engineer, Benelux, at Kewill B.V., said, "LoadComplete 2.0 is an economical and efficient tool for us to more easily test the performance of our rich Internet-based applications and compare performance statistics by running it on several types of application servers. This ... (more)

SmartBear Software Advances Agile Test Management and Release Management

SmartBear Software has announced the latest release of its SaaS-based and on-premise application lifecycle management tool, ALMComplete 2011, and QA and test management tool, QAComplete 2011. With this major release, SmartBear is providing software development and QA teams with more granular control over agile test management and release management activities, while enhancing test reuse. Features made available by the 2011 release include a new test management module that gives development and QA teams advanced test coverage visibility and central control over manual and automat... (more)

Code Review for a Good Cause - Thank you

We wanted to extend our gratitude for those who helped us raise over $8,500 for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, ... ... (more)

Load testing the post office

Hi there! My name is Dain, and I'm part of the fantastic development team working on the open source load ... ... (more)

SmartBear Delivers Firefox 8 and Internet Explorer 8 Browser Support

SmartBear Software has announced that AlertSite, the company’s Web and mobile performance monitoring solution, will support testing on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Organizations can now test, monitor and improve how their website is performing across both browsers to ensure customers are getting an optimal user experience, no matter their browser preference. The AlertSite built-into-the-browser transaction recorder captures and plays back user events to measure the end-user experience exactly as it unfolds in the browser. Now users can record any multi-st... (more)