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| 30 December 2004 | 
| The December issue of Quality Techniques Newsletter includes announcements about conferences on Model-Based Testing, on Web Application Testing, on verification of "infinite-state" systems, and on building trustworthy applications. Check out the latest on eValid V5, plus learn about John Musa's Professors' Corner. |
| 27 December 2004 | 
| The dates for the next eValid Public Training have been announced: 16-18 February. Capacity at this training sessions is limited, so register now to assure your place. please contact us about registering for the the February 2005 training using the Question Request Form. |
| 19 December 2004 |
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We will be closed 23/24 December 2004 for the Christmas Holiday and on 30/31 December 2004 for the New Years Holiday. We will reopen on 3 January 2005. We wish everyone the very best for the Holiday Season and for a Happy New Year. |
| 15 December 2004 |
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Unfortunately, the SR WebStore,
which had been hosted for several years by Yahoo!,
has been hacked and seriously compromised and abused.
In November 2004 alone we had nearly 10,000 attempted
fraudulent transactions.
As a consequence of these acts,
and to provide the maximum security
to our customers who have used the webstore in the past,
we reluctantly have disabled this valuable resource.
The eValid webstore normally offered special promotional pricing on eValid products and services. If you have tried to use the SR WebStore and had difficulty, please accept our apologies. If you wish to place an order using the special pricing that was available previously only from the online SR WebStore, please contact us using the Question Request Form. We will make every attempt to confirm your webstore order and to honor webstore prices. |
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| 30 November 2004 |
| The November issue of Quality Techniques Newsletter includes announcements about the IEEE/NASA Software Engineering conference, the International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, the IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology, and includes information about upcoming upgrades to eValid. |
| 12 November 2004 |
| Beginning with the just-released eValid build a prior limitation on processing Java applets using the Sun JRE 1.3/1.4 has been removed. eValid now processes both Microsoft JRE 1.1 and Sun JRE 1.3/1.4 type applets. For details please see the: JRE Support Page. |
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| 29 October 2004 |
| The October issue of Quality Techniques Newsletter has an article by Eric Man Wong, "Method for Estimating the Number of Concurrent Users," and an update about NSS2 from CNSS President Alan Salibury. There also are announcements about several new special issues of industry journals, plus announcements about a number of related technical conferences. |
| 18 October 2004 |
| We are pleased to welcome onto our growing international team -- as an authorized eValid product reseller -- the W3 Quality group operating out of Brussels, Belgium. W3 Quality is a web auditing services firm that features eValid analysis options. |
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| 30 September 2004 |
| The September issue of Quality Techniques Newsletter includes information about special issues of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT), and the International Journal of E-Business Research. There is also material on John Musa's book (published "on-demand"), an announcement about the International Workshop on Software Verification and Validation, the International Journal on Web Services Research, the Montreal Conference on e-Technology, and a summary of recent eValid enhancements and modifications. |
| 29 September 2004 |  |
We have enhanced eValid's reporting capability by providing a new format and new capabilities for the eValid Standard Test Record. This record is produced at the end of each playback and is made available in all of the standard playback logfiles, in the special Playback Summary Report, and in the Cumulative Summary Report. In addition, the user can create a CSV record that contains the same data in a format that can be quickly placed in a database. |
| 27 September 2004 |
| Prof. Robert Sabourin is offering a course in Software Validation [ECSE 429] in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A major part of the course is the us of eValid for functional and stress testing of websites. |
| 20 September 2004 | |
As part of our continuing effort to provide clear explanations and worked
examples of eValid operation, we have put together two additional hourly
monitors.
The
E-Commerce Monitor
shown here applies a
deep transaction to a popular website that contains a Flash object
to determine hour-by-hour
relative performance as viewed "over the last mile" --
that is, entirely from a users' perspective.
The SilverDollar Executable Download Monitor examines the total download speed for a relatively large (> 5 MByte) executable. It does this by actually downloading the file and synchronizing for "Download Complete" in the Windows SaveAs modal dialog. Like the E-Commerce Monitor above, this is a very stable site, which exhibits fairly uniform download speeds through each day. |
| 17 September 2004 | |
To support eValid users who are studying websites laterally -- looking for common properties and phenomena of interest -- we have prepared a complete run of all 177 of the Gomez sites. The G1 Public Site Scan Data shows a standard set of eValid site analysis reports for all 115 of the sites. One very unexpected result is that the download speed of the sites scanned varied by about 100:1 overall (slowest to fastest). |
| 15 September 2004 |
| Changes in the adaptive playback support have been made for eValid's ButtonClick command. The new implementation provides for increased flexibility in how eValid adapts to a changed button name or changed button location. With this change fewer tests will fail for inconsequential changes in the underlying website. The same capabilities also were extended for the SubmitClick and ResetClick commands. All of the improved methods are available to regular eValid users as part of their regular maintenance subscription. |
| 13 September 2004 |
| Prof. Jerry Gao at San Jose State University's College of Engineering has adopted eValid for use in his course on Software Quality Testing [CMPE 287/196H], being offered in the Fall 2004 semester. The eValid engine is used for both the GUI regression testing (record/play) work and also for the load/stress testing parts of the laboratory work. |
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| 30 August 2004 |
| The August 2004 issue of Quality Techniques Newsletter includes information about the web site evolution workshop, the International Journal on Web Services Research, on the Montreal Conference on e-Technology, and a summary of recent eValid enhancements and modifications. |
| 22 August 2004 |
| As web pages grow in complexity it becomes more and more important to have precise control of the eValid recording mode. Knowing the kind of object you are recording is crucial to achieving a reliable, repeatable, adaptable and robust recording. To support test recording the eValid Recording Mode Dashboard has been modified to show the current settings of important recording options. Now you can see, in one location, the current states of absolute and Element MouseOver recording, and of Left and Right Click recording in absolute mode. In addition, the dashboard shows you if you are in Application Mode. |
| 19 August 2004 | |
In addition to the CoreMetrics TopPage Monitor1 previously announced, We have added monitoring displays that analyze two other popular websites in the same way. The Keynote TopPage Monitor1 and Gomez TopPage Monitor1. In all three cases the results available are hourly, 24 x 7 measurements for last mile timing of top top page download performance. For accuracy, the results is repeated in a script that performs the download 10 times [after clearing the initial cache contents and running with "Never Use" cache each time]. |
| 18 August 2004 |
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A new release of the eValid
3D-SiteMap display engine has been made available.
The 3D-SiteMap portrays page-to-page dependency information
that the eValid site analysis process obtains
by systematically scanning a website
and then analyzing the dependencies between
all of the pages it viewed.
The new additions to the 3D-SiteMap engine include:
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| 17 August 2004 |
| To support expanded use of eValid in monitoring applications and other unattended operational roles, we have added a number of new exit codes. The complete Playback Error Codes documentation gives all of the details. Of special note is the addition of error/exit codes for the new batch-mode eV.Manager Command Line Switches that include a feature to automatically repeat application of an test suite a fixed number of times in immediate succession. |
| 10 August 2004 | |
We are publishing the results
detailed site analysis scans of the KB40 websites
as part of our program of providing documentation about website
performance and quality.
Each scan is accompanied with 14 separate eValid reports,
including 3D-SiteMaps of the top portion of each website.
Of particular note is that the 40 websites scans showed a ~30:1 variation in achieved download speed, even when using a high-speed dedicated DSL connection. See also the Top-Page Benchmark Comparisons and the KB40 Backup Data. |
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| 30 July 2004 |
| The July 2004 issue of Quality Techniques Newsletter has the second half of a Boris Beizer essay, information on developing trustworthy software, notice of a special session on e-commerce technologies at SAAC-2005. In addition, there is material about the semantic web and about verification of infinite state systems, plus announcements of several topical conferences. |
| 29 July 2004 | |
As an illustration of eValid detailed timing and transaction monitoring capabilities --
features that are unavailable with other solutions -- we have set up a regular
monitoring function for a popular website, www.coremetrics.com.
This page is very well done, has balanced components, and is relatively quick.
The complete
CoreMetrics Monitor1
report shows the results of measurements every hour for the last 24 hours in these forms:
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| 25 July 2004 |
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New documentation of eValid's settings is now available.
Organized into ~20 sections
based on functionality within the eValid engine,
this new presentation makes it easier to find the
subject or setting you want,
and makes it simpler to choose the right value.
eValid users may click: Help > Documentation > User Manual, and then navigate to the settings descriptions by clicking: Basics > Interface > Settings. This will bring you to the eValid settings master catalog, and from there you can select the technical area of interest. |
| 24 July 2004 |
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To help new and experienced users alike we have put
together a
Script Catalog
that shows typical eValid scripts in "ready to play" mode.
To facilitate understanding the scripts shown are reformatted
and commented so that you can get a sense of what eValid
scripts look like.
The initial list of scripts includes those derived from the
"cookbook" plus those used in for self-training AUTOPLAY scripts.
eValid users may click: Help > Documentation > User Manual, and then navigate to the script catalog by clicking: Basics > Interface > Scripts. This will bring you to the current eValid script catalog. |
| 20 July 2004 | |
In an unusual academic application, the eValid engine is being used as part of the Kubernetes Project being run by Ph. D. candidate Andrea Ricci. The application is to analyze the websites of 1200 political parties worldwide. The research project is coordinated by two co-tutors serving at three Universities: Prof. Jan Servaes, Katholieke Universiteit van Brussel, Belgium and University of Queensland, Australia and Prof. Francois Heinderyckx of Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 19 July 2004 |
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We have added a new command line interface to eV.Manager.
The new interface gives you more flexibility if you want to
use eV.Manager to run a comprehensive website test suite
in unattended mode, e.g. for overnight runs.
eValid users may click: Help > Documentation > User Manual, and then navigate to the eV.Manager command line options by clicking: Technical > Details > Command Line. You'll find the link to the eV.Manager Batch Mode material in the index at the top of the page. |
| 16 July 2004 | |
eValid has been chosen for use in student projects as part of the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU). Students in the program apply full eValid licenses to support their web application development projects and to analyze completed websites. The technical contact for the eValid use is Prof. Mel Rosso-Llopart, Associate Director of the Masters of Software Engineering program and a Senior Lecturer in the CMU distance education program. |
| 14 July 2004 | |
There is a new update on the BlueRiverStone report that analyzes 150 websites, with some very interesting new results -- and lots of changes. Read the Financial Mail Report for full details and complete website ranking data -- including changes since the first set of runs. |
