SmartBear Software Advances Load Testing for Websites with Rich Internet Applications

LoadComplete 2.0 supports Flash, Flex, AJAX, and Silverlight technologies; includes performance and reporting enhancements

BEVERLY, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--SmartBear Software today 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.

“Organizations continually find bottlenecks after it’s too late to effectively address them. Teams can increase the business value of their applications by implementing load and performance testing as early in the development life cycle as possible.”

Mathijs Groen, QA Engineer, Benelux, at Kewill B.V., said, “LoadComplete 2.0 is an economical and efficient tool for us to more easily test the performance of our rich Internet-based applications and compare performance statistics by running it on several types of application servers. This enables us to better assist customers by providing them with the most ‘smoothly running’ framework.”

Ian McLeod, EVP and Chief Products Officer, SmartBear, said, “Rich Internet applications are improving the design and user interface of websites but are also making it more time consuming and costly for many organizations to load test. LoadComplete 2.0 offers Web teams more flexibility to efficiently test all aspects of their websites without the high licensing costs and complex data configuration that often prevent the frequent testing needed in today’s agile development environments.”

LoadComplete 2.0 delivers:

• Easy load testing for websites built with RIA technologies such as Adobe Flex and Flash, Silverlight, and AJAX.
• Enhanced point-and-click automation for parameterizing test data in AMF, JSON, SOAP, XML, and Silverlight data formats.
• Higher load generation capacity enabling 25 percent more virtual users per node.
• New waterfall charts supporting detailed analysis of the slowest pages, improving a user’s testing productivity by highlighting areas with possible performance problems.

Sean Kenefick, Research Director, Applications Platform Strategies, Gartner Inc., said, “Organizations continually find bottlenecks after it’s too late to effectively address them. Teams can increase the business value of their applications by implementing load and performance testing as early in the development life cycle as possible.”

LoadComplete 2.0 is the latest addition to the SmartBear Quality Anywhere Platform^™. This platform also includes TestComplete^™ for functional test automation, AlertSite^®, for Web and mobile performance monitoring, and soapUI for testing Web services and APIs, all of which also offer extensive support for RIAs.

For additional details on what’s new in LoadComplete, visit: http://smartbear.com/load-testing/whats-new/.

Webinar Registration

Join us on Tuesday, Dec. 20 at 1 p.m. EST for the Webinar, “LoadComplete 2.0 - Load Testing RIA Websites Faster.”

Availability

LoadComplete 2.0 is available immediately. To purchase or download a free 30-day trial, visit http://smartbear.com/loadcomplete/.

About LoadComplete

LoadComplete is a comprehensive, on-premise, load testing software tool designed to test Web and RIA applications so you can identify and pinpoint serious bottlenecks early, inside or outside your network, at both the application and server levels. LoadComplete’s easy-to-use graphical interface and workflow automation make load testing real user scenarios, without scripts, faster and more efficient. Affordable and scalable pricing make it a cost-effective solution for organizations of any size.

About SmartBear Software

SmartBear Software provides tools for over 100,000 software professionals to build, test, and monitor some of the best software applications and websites anywhere – on the desktop, mobile and in the cloud. Our users can be found across 90 countries, in small businesses, Fortune 100 companies, and government agencies. Learn more about the SmartBear Quality Anywhere Platform, our award-winning tools, or join our active user community at www.smartbear.com, on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter @smartbear.