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Product Announcements • SOAPscope Server 6.1 encapsulates all of the features that Mindreef provides for architects, developers, testers, and support engineers into a single, serverbased solution that allows entire project teams to collaborate effectively while delivering well-tested, scalable, and policy-compliant Web services and composite applications. • SOAPscope Architect 6.1 is a design-time governance and SOA quality and testing platform for policy rules authoring, design-time support, prototyping, change-time, and run-time support. • SOAPscope Tester 6.1 provides an integrated set of tools for Web services performance and load testing, design-time support, prototyping, change-time, and runtime support. • SOAPscope Developer 6.1 is a cost-effective desktop platform with integrated tools for problem diagnosis and resolution, unit testing, and supporting service consumers. Visit www.mindreef.com for additional information. tation technology, SOAPSonar delivers on the four pillars of SOA Web services testing: functional regression, performance testing, security assessment, and compliance validation. These four pillars ensure robust, scalable, reliable, and secure Web services are deployed within an enterprise. Visit www.crosschecknet.com for more information. Dynamic Leak Check for HP-UX Itanium NORTH HAVEN, CT—Dynamic Memory Solutions announces the latest release of the software debugging tool Dynamic Leak Check for HP-UX Itanium and introduces support for 32-bit applications. Dynamic Leak Check for HP-UX Itanium is a high-speed memory leak and heap corruption detector. Dynamic Leak Check detects many difficult to diagnose software errors in C and C++ applications. It now supports both HP-UX 64-bit and 32-bit applications running on Itanium architecture. For additional information, visit www.dynamic-memory.com or call 877-293-4144. experience for Web-based applications or applications that have a browserbased front end. RTI can be used in a standalone manner or integrated with an application management system. When used in standalone mode, RTI includes its own agent to collect and transmit data. The information RTI provides can be easily understood by help desk and operational users, while the available context data provides actionable information to the development teams when production problems occur. Out of the box, RTI also integrates with any agent or management system that uses the established and open industry standard for Application Response Measurement (ARM) to provide immediate transaction tracing and decomposition from a user’s PC through the backend servers supporting the request. Visit www.ocsystems.com for additional information. SOAPSonar Version 3.5 for SOA Testing BOSTON, MA—Crosscheck Networks, Inc. announces the immediate availability of SOAPSonar version 3.5. The following features enable testers to easily validate increasingly sophisticated SOA Web services deployments: • Direct database integration for end-to-end SOA testing • Dynamic on-demand binding for abstract types • Setting of global policies that can be assigned to custom test groups • JUNIT integration that enables SOAPSonar to leverage JUNIT framework • Direct native Java key store PKI support • Optimization techniques to parse jumbo WSDLs and schemas Based on patent-pending XSD-mu- Response Time Instrumentation FAIRFAX, VA—Re sponse Time Instrumentation (RTI) for Internet Explorer, from OC Systems, Inc., measures system response times as experienced by the user during transactions initiated within Microsoft Internet Explorer. RTI monitors the start of an action (i.e., when the user requests a page or submits data) and when the result is returned and rendered. This data is used by performance engineers to reduce application slowdowns and improve the user To load test your website, you could type this: Definitions ! Standard Defines Include "RESPONSE_CODES.INC" Include "GLOBAL_VARIABLES.INC" CHARACTER*512 USER_AGENT Integer USE_PAGE_TIMERS CHARACTER* CHARACTER*1024 cookie_2_0 CHARACTER*1024 cookie_2_1 Timer T_ Code !Read in the default browser user agent field Entry[USER_AGENT,USE_PAGE_TIMER Start Timer T_OBFUSCATED PRIMARY GET URI "http://yahoo.cHTTP/1.1" ON 1 & HEADER DEFAULT_HEADERS & ,WITH {"Accept: image/gif, image/xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/p "application/x-shockwave-flash, application/msword, */*", & or this: www.webperformanceinc.com Why code every test case by hand, when our unique software detects and automatically conﬁgures the test cases for you – quickly and accurately, then gives you superior reports that are easy to understand? With Web Performance automatic load testing, the time and money you save could increase productivity as much as 500 percent. For more information about how you can increase performance and productivity using Web Performance automated load testing, visit www.webperformanceinc.com www.StickyMinds.com APRIL 2008 BETTER SOFTWARE 45 http://www.crosschecknet.com http://www.ocsystems.com http://www.dynamic-memory.com http://www.mindreef.com http://www.webperformanceinc.com http://www.webperformanceinc.com http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - April 2008 Contents Mark Your Calendar Contributions eLightenment Technology Speaking - A Change Would Do You Good Code Craft - A "D" In Programming, Part 1 Test Connection - Learning the Hardware Lessons Management Chronicles - The Art of Persuading Management Cover Story - Incremental and Iterative Development Developers...Start Your Engines Where Do I Go From Here Product Announcements 10 Things You Might Not Know About... The Last Word - Software Quality and the Prisoner's Dilemma Ad Index

Better Software - April 2008

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