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Hoo boy. See also pretty much everything on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interactive#Products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interact
by csours 9y ago
Hoo boy. See also pretty much everything on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interactive#Products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interactive#Products
All of those products were good for their time, but they never really advanced.
As one small example, LoadRunner is load testing software. When writing load tests you use it in interactive mode, but it would be nice to actually run the tests from a server in the background. You can do this... but any errors will POP A MODAL WINDOW! Serious-fucking-ly!
- poulsbohemian 9y agoActually, LoadRunner has gotten a whole lot of continued development over the years, at least compared to all the other products. I did some protocol work on it, Diagnostics, and RUM, plus have had semi-regular contact with the R&D teams over the years. Also -- you can not only run it on a single "server in the background" but to a whole slew of load generators if you like. You can take those same scripts and reuse them via BPM too. Even long in the tooth, it's still an impressive suite for its breadth of solution. JMeter, Selenium, etc really aren't in the same category as LoadRunner, and yes New Relic and AppDynamics are lovely, but give me Diagnostics any day.
- csours 9y agoYes, there are updates, but it still handles errors with a popup msgbox modal, even in Session 0, where there's no one to click on it. There's even COM integration, but still popups!