Alex Forbes

SmartBear Software on Tuesday announced that SpareFoot, the online self-storage marketplace, has improved the mean time-to-recovery of its website by 75 percent using AlertSite web performance monitoring. Using AlertSite, SpareFoot has also expanded its monitoring to protect more of the website, while realizing approximately 50 percent in cost savings over its previous Web performance management vendor. SpareFoot allows Web users to search by location, price, unit size and amenities to find the best deals that match their storage needs. As the country's largest advertising network for self-storage, SpareFoot requires 24/7 Web monitoring to deliver superior site availability, speed and user experience. SpareFoot uses AlertSite to monitor the user experience on SpareFoot.com and its mobile site, its search functionality, and various internal applications. This provid... (more)

Agile Testing Challenges - Performance Bottlenecks

This is the final installment of blogs in the Top 5 Agile Testing Challenges series. You can view the prior blogs ... ... (more)

Five Ways to Ensure API Quality from Development through Deployment

Ensuring Web API lifecycle quality can be time-consuming and costly for software developers, IT Operations and e-commerce teams, but it doesn’t have to be that way. To learn how, join SmartBear Software for its informative Webinar featuring Gartner, Inc., “Your Guide to the Golden Age of APIs, 5 Ways to Ensure Quality from Development through Deployment,” on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. EDT (10:00 a.m. PDT, 6:00 p.m. BSTWeb APIs are growing exponentially and are essential for mobile and social applications. They also are used in innovative forms of e-commerce that comb... (more)

StubHub Improves Website Performance with AlertSite

Maintaining a Speedy “Fan Experience” at StubHub An interesting article in the just-published May issue of Internet Retailer examines the ... ... (more)

SmartBear Software Advances Load Testing for Websites with RIAs

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.... (more)