Web Roller - New solution for web applications performance/load testing

Novosibirsk, Russia -- February 20, 2002 -- Novosoft announces Web Roller, a full-featured load-testing tool enabling to determine Internet/Intranet system performance and behavior under the stress of a considerable user load. This solution helps developers and QA professionals to ensure that their mission-critical Web applications meet the high performance standards and end users demands.

Novosoft, Inc
For Immediate Release

February, 2002

Novosibirsk, Russia -- February 20, 2002 -- Novosoft announces Web Roller, a full-featured load-testing tool enabling to determine Internet/Intranet system performance and behavior under the stress of a considerable user load. This solution helps developers and QA professionals to ensure that their mission-critical Web applications meet the high performance standards and end users demands. Your customers will sleep better knowing that their site can withstand the extreme weight of users' simultaneous transactions against the current peaks. Web Roller has a perfect set of features for testing dynamic and complicated Web and Intranet applications. With this software you get the fast and low cost way to test scalability and performance. All security features relating to HTTPS like SSL and digital server certificates are supported.

Web Roller has excellent embedded abilities to generate test data dynamically, so that you can precisely emulate real users traffic. Request parameters can be dynamically calculated by several methods of calculation: from usual ones, like numeric and alphanumeric random, sequence or list, to regular expressions. URLs can be dynamic as well. Test functionality can be extended through several standard programming languages, including JavaScript, VBScript and PerlScript. Additionally, Web Roller provides you with a wide range of test parameters. Most of global settings can be redefined within individual requests or inside the test sequences.

Web Roller is extremely realistic in simulating users behavior. Each virtual user can be absolutely independent from others. Each user has its own cookie, data and parameters. Web Roller has a proxy to emulate users coming from different IPs. The use of scripting gives you almost unlimited capabilities in simulating of users behavior. Web Roller records a real interaction between users browser and web server (not just emulates behavior of the browser).

Test results are represented as various charts, reports in text (suitable for Excel) and HTML formats. Charts and reports give you the full information about application performance. Reports contain raw and summary data, such as transaction time by virtual user, transaction performance summary, failed transactions etc. High performance of Web Roller guarantees you high accuracy of results.

Web Roller provides you with sufficient set of features for functional testing, such as response processing ensuring you response accuracy. In most cases, for functional testing you can simply reuse scripts created for load testing. It allows you to create common test cases for your project.

Pricing and Availability

Price for Novosoft Web Roller starts at $99 with a license of 100 virtual users. License of 300 virtual users is available at a price of $199, and unlimited license at $299.
Web Roller can be downloaded for a free trial before purchasing from http://webapplicationstesting.com/download.html

For additional information, please contact:

Alexander Grasmick, Novosoft Inc.
4, pr. Koptyuga, Novosibirsk,
630090, Russia
Fax: +7 (3832) 34-20-35
mailto:webroller@novosoft-us.com
http://www.novosoft-us.com
http://www.webapplicationstesting.com

Established in 1992, Novosoft is a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and custom software development services worldwide.

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