SOASTA Awarded Patent for Visual User Interface of its CloudTest Platform

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) March 8, 2011

SOASTA, the leader in cloud-based performance testing, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,844,036 entitled, "Visual Test Automation Tool for Message-Based Applications, Web Applications and SOA Systems." The patent covers a visual or graphical user interface (GUI) design that expresses a complete programming language for Web and mobile application performance test creation. Analogous to creating a song or video using digital multi-media editing products, this visual interface enables testers and performance engineers to quickly build and maintain complex performance tests using SOASTA CloudTest's task-specific editors.

"SOASTA's unique, patented design delivers a familiar and easy-to-use 'GarageBand-style' visual test creation process that enables users to build complex performance tests in a fraction of the time it takes using older, script-based methodologies," said Ken Gardner, founder and executive chairman at SOASTA. "SOASTA has broken new ground in performance test creation, automation, and scalability. These visual interface editors are a key innovation that can help organizations create and perform quick changes in critical performance tests in a world of rapidly changing Web and mobile applications."

SOASTA CloudTest's visual testing environment is based on a visual mixing board metaphor found in today's popular digital media creation tools. It uses building blocks that allow a user to compose test scenarios by dragging and dropping recorded messages in the form of icons onto different test tracks. Test tracks can represent alternate user scenarios or geographic locations within a larger test composition. The process of editing or assembling test scenarios to generate complex, parallel message streams targeted at websites or mobile applications may be considered analogous to assembling a song, movie, or multi-media presentation in digital media presentation tools. A user may also access the underlying message contents to adjust consumer wait times, eliminate testing third-party components such as CDNs, or meet other specific testing requirements.

Comprehensive performance testing has traditionally required the user to have extensive programming knowledge. In traditional testing software, users must write complex procedural C, or C-like code, or build a long series of messages - typically using Extensible Mark-Up Language (XML) - to simulate real-world traffic. These XML messages are often assembled by hand or using a programming language such as Perl or JAVA. This testing process is prone to errors because even the smallest mistake can invalidate the entire test. Maintaining the scripts and updating them to reflect system changes is also a difficult process.

"The extended time and specific expertise necessary to conduct performance tests using traditional software has prevented many organizations from testing at all, putting their business-critical websites at significant risk. SOASTA CloudTest eliminates these obstacles, empowering organizations to easily and quickly develop tests and run them at scale, using our market-proven visual interface and robust platform that delivers the full power of cloud computing," continued Gardner.

SOASTA CloudTest Platform

Last month, SOASTA launched the latest addition to its CloudTest product line, CloudTest Pro. CloudTest Pro is a new appliance that delivers the world's largest platform for testing the performance of Web and mobile applications. With CloudTest Pro, testing teams have full control to build, execute and analyze performance tests, with the flexibility to launch tests on a single platform that integrates data center infrastructure and private clouds with external resources including public clouds. CloudTest Pro represents the first commercial software solution that seamlessly integrates heterogeneous clouds and other resources to create a truly global test platform.

SOASTA will be demonstrating the CloudTest platform and its patented visual interface on March 8 and 9 at the Cloud Connect show, booth #515. To see a demo online, please go to http://bit.ly/faFEsD.

For more information about SOASTA CloudTest products, visit the SOASTA website at http://www.soasta.com, contact SOASTA at info(at)soasta(dot)com or call 866-344-8766.

About SOASTA

SOASTA is the leader in cloud testing. The company's CloudTest products and services leverage the power of cloud computing to quickly and affordably test consumer-facing Web and mobile applications at scale, providing customers with the confidence that their business-critical Web applications will be reliable and scalable, even under extreme loads. SOASTA's customers include many of today's most successful brands, including American Girl, Chegg, Gilt Groupe, Hallmark, Intuit, Microsoft and Netflix. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about SOASTA, please visit http://www.soasta.com.

http://www.hiidea.com book trading platform is released .all are free to use for both sellers and buyers

(PRWEB) September 9, 2004

http://www.hiidea.com, the Internet site of Hiidea Book & Music Store, has announced the release of its first "do it yourself" book trading platform that allows both buyers and sellers to list books wanted or for sale. The site is free to use for both sellers and buyers.

The site, Buy or Sell Books : Do it yourself (http://www.hiidea.com/posts.php), is the first to allow buyers and sellers to find or list a book in their local community, sorted by universities or cities. The site has attracted a large number of college students who are now able to find and buy used textbooks from their neighbours at the same campus.

Allen Goldstein, a computer science student at New York University, said, "Instead of going to eBay and spending hours and dollars without much success in selling my last year's textbooks, I can now go straight to Buy or Sell Books : Do it yourself http://www.hiidea.com/posts.php on

http://www.hiidea.com, and sell them to my buddies right here. I sold three books in a week, and get extra cash to buy new books for this sememster. Best of all, I paid no fee and the service is free at http://www.hiidea.com." Gil Diller, a doctorate student at MIT, was able to pick up a hard to find reference book that is used only in few universities, is excited: "I have been searching for this book for 3 months and nobody has it. I found it in Buy or Sell Books : Do it yourself (http://www.hiidea.com/posts.php). I can't believe the guy living in my apartment building got a copy, and it is in excellent condition. I was able to pay cash and pick it up right away. No shipping needed."

Mr. Peter Jin, the CEO of Hiidea Book & Music Store, was impressed by the warm remarks. He believes the site will have a large following once more and more people know about it. "It is free. It is the first site that allows college students nationwide to trade locally on campus. Once you know about it, you will keep coming back. This site will travel by mouth."

About http://www.hiidea.com


Hiidea Book & Music Store is a leading book store that sells over 1.4 million titles on discount books, music, and movies. It has the largest collection on sports & entertainment books. It is specialised in extbooks and carry some of the hardest to find titles.

For more information visit http://www.hiidea.com or http://www.hiidea.com/posts.php, or email PR Director Allen Xu at jxu@hiidea.com

AssureSign

Orlando, Fla. (PRWEB) August 15, 2011

AssureSign LLC, a leader in electronic signature technology, announced today that it has been named a technology Early Adopter by Microsoft, in recognition of making its AssureSign electronic signature software compatible with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

AssureSign leads the electronic signature market with easy to deploy tools that can seamlessly integrate electronic signature applications with Microsoft Dynamics

50+ Local Merchants Join the Mobixpay Mobile Loyalty Platform in First Two Weeks

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 03, 2011

Local Manhattan, NYC-based merchants rush to reward their customers with loyalty-based promotional offers on Mobixpay's mobile shopping app available on iPhone and Android smartphones.

Local Deals - Galore!

In the two weeks since the launch of the Mobixpay mobile shopping app, more than 50 local merchants on Manhattan's Upper West Side have registered and begun delivering promotional offers. Once registered, merchants are able to create, publish and manage their offers in real-time using an easy and intuitive web-based self-service tool found at http://www.mobixpay.com. There is no cost to merchants to create and offer promotions on mobiXpay.

Today there are deals for a wide range of goods and services that local consumers want, need and shop for every day. There are deals for breakfast, lunch and dinner; and, cuisines ranging from pizza and BBQ to French, vegan and kosher. Services include custom dressmaking, tailoring, florists, picture framing, tax preparation, haircuts, hair care, OTC medications and much more. Today's mobiXpay offers range from "20% off all Dry Cleaning" to "$ 3 for 16oz Smoothies". Through mobiXpay merchants are rewarding local consumers for their patronage when purchasing everyday goods and services.

Unparalleled Convenience for Registered Users

Registered users simply launch the mobiXpay app to find location-based deals. Simple keyword search also supports fast and easy identification of local offers for items the registered user wants or needs. With mobiXpay there is no more sifting through a daily dose of deals for teeth whitening or laser hair removal. At a total cost of $ 1.33 a month, with an annual subscription, registered users get a 24/7 mobile shopping utility to access scores of deals for local goods and services that they want or need.

About Mobixpay, Inc.

Mobixpay, Inc. was launched this fall by three-time Harvard University graduate and native New Yorker, Cynthia Hickman, to more efficiently connect local businesses with consumers. Cynthia Hickman, Mobixpay's CEO and Founder, says "we are well on our way to achieving our dual goals of blanketing our registered users with deals - galore; and, delivering access to these deals with unparalleled convenience through the registered user's smartphone. Cynthia expects mobiXpay to become the singular money saving shopping utility for consumers and businesses alike.

You can find and download the "mobiXpay" application on iTunes and the Android Market. Visit http://www.mobixpay.com to learn more.

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