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Issue #4

April/2011

Hello - In celebration of our recent release of the SO-Aware Test Workbench - a high performance service testing tool - we have dedicated this edition of the newsletter to testing.

Read on to see details about the SO-Aware Test Workbench as well as learn effective ways to leverage the tool for load and performance testing.

If you have not already done so, feel free to download our full-featured trial version so you see for yourself how robust and effective the new testing features are in SO-Aware.

Enjoy!

Elizabeth

SO-Aware News and Events

SO-Aware v2 launched on March 9th!

We are pleased to announce the recent release of SO-Aware v2, which includes not only enhanced testing capabilities through the SO-Aware Test Workbench, but also includes enhanced Visual Studio integration and enhanced service metadata modeling.

Download the newest version today to see how we are constantly improving an already pretty darn good tool (if we must say so ourselves!)

SO-Aware Test Workbench Highlighted on Microsoft's Endpoint TV

Wonder how we define a high performance service testing tool? Take a few minutes and join our Chief Architect, Jesus Rodriguez, as he talks about the Test Workbench tool with Rob Jacobs, a Senior Program Manager and WCF Evangelist with Microsoft.

In this episode, Jesus demonstrates key features such as:

Test visualization
Test work group execution
Load testing using strategies like Simple Rate, Linear, Burst, and Sawtooth
Local test projects
Test reports

High Performance Testing Webinar

Sure, you need to test your services to make sure they are working as planned...but what about testing them for true performance? What about testing them for speed and performance under different load scenarios? What about benchmarking them against other services?

Join us on April 19th from 3:00 - 4:00 Eastern for a live demonstration of how you can answer these questions with the SO-Aware Test Workbench. Register Now!

Get Started With Our Getting Started Videos

Don't want to wait for the Webinar in April? Want to know more about other features of SO-Aware besides testing?

We have a series of Getting Started videos available on our website to help you fully explore the product. Once you've downloaded the Express Edition, watch our videos to jump start your trial implementation or contact us for a compilation of useful tips and tricks found in our product blogs.

Did You Know?

You can use the SO-Aware Test Workbench to compare the performance implications of different binding and behavior configurations.

When it comes to testing the impact that different binding and behavior configurations have on your WCF services, the elephant in the room is that while conceptually you know there are performance impacts with certain configurations, until now there has not been a way to objectively quantify what everyone instinctively understands.

In this blog post, Jesus Rodriguez demonstrates how the Test Workbench can be used to quantify the performance impact that adding security to your basic HTTP binding has on your service. Take a look to get an idea of how to leverage the Test Workbench to validate different development approaches to improve performance.

You can load test your services in just two clicks.

Traditionally, developers avoided load testing their services because of the difficulty involved with running load tests. The SO-Aware Test Workbench provides four different algorithms for load testing, so now load testing can be accomplished in just two clicks!

Take a look at this article to see the two clicks are all you need to execute and visualize the impact of different load testing scenarios on your WCF services.