Is your website up and running?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Mar, 2008
Carlo sent me a link today which could be useful to some of you. It’s called BasicState and keeps an eye on your website, letting you know if there’s any problem with your uptime. It’s a free service that checks the following every 15 minutes:
is your dns responding properly?
is your network reachable?
is your server alive?
is [...]
FireFox v3
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 17th Feb, 2008
Just in case you haven’t noticed, Firefox Version 3 has hit its Beta 3 release, which is a pretty important milestone for them. It’s the version that gets released to testers around the world. It’s not intended for public consumption, but rather for developers and testers to play with. Now, I’m not too faint-hearted when [...]
Performance vs load vs stress testing
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 11th Apr, 2006
Ever caught yourself using the phrases “Performance Testing”, “Load Testing” and “Stress Testing” interchangeably ? They’re actually quite different terms. Check out this article I came across today:
Agile Testing: Performance vs. load vs. stress testing
The Spider of Doom
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 29th Mar, 2006
John sent me an excellent link today. Number of lessons to take away from this:
Sites/applications need to be robust and tested.
Don’t skimp on your site security
Never underestimate the user’s capacity for doing something daft
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