Performance Testing of Web 2.0 Apps Across the Internet Cloud Now as Easy as Flying a KITE - With Keynote Internet Testing Environment 2.0
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), the global leader in on-demand mobile
and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the
online experience, today announced KITE 2.0 (Keynote Internet Testing
Environment), the latest version of Keynote’s
product for testing and analyzing the performance of Web applications
across the Internet cloud. KITE 2.0 is a powerful Web performance
testing product that gives users the flexibility of testing instantly
from their desktop or from geographic locations across Keynote’s
on-demand global test and measurement network.
KITE 2.0 enables Web developers, QA professionals, performance analysts
and others to execute – with point and click
ease – rapid performance analysis and
validation by measuring the end user experience of next generation Web
2.0 applications that include AJAX and asynchronously downloaded
content. The results gleaned from running Web transaction scripts in
real time from multiple cities enable the various groups participating
in the application lifecycle process (developers, QA engineers,
performance analysts, Web Ops and IT) to work collaboratively together
to establish performance benchmarks either pre or post-application
deployment and to triage and resolve performance problems throughout the
application development lifecycle.
With code changes and site updates being made to Web sites and
applications on a near daily basis –
sometimes even multiple times a day – the
efficiencies and productivities gained from the ability to test,
validate, recreate, analyze and remediate application performance
problems, nearly on the fly, are profound. "As cloud computing grows dramatically, a new
age of products for testing and validating application performance in
real time across the Internet cloud is required. We’ve
built KITE to address this need as a product for anyone wanting to
understand and improve the performance of their Web applications from
the end user perspective,” said Vik Chaudhary,
vice president of product management and corporate development at
Keynote.
"Assuring and optimizing the performance of
Web and Web 2.0 applications can no longer be accomplished through a
siloed set of tools designed to support individual technology
professionals in isolation,” said Dennis
Drogseth, vice president, Enterprise Management Associates. "Keynote's
KITE 2.0 initiative provides multi-dimensional insights into QoE issues
that can easily be shared and accessed by different roles within and
beyond IT, from application developers, to application support teams, to
network managers, to performance analysts and engineers, to line of
business executives, among others. KITE 2.0’s
global reach and inherently extensible design as a service makes it well
suited to support next-generation Web application management
requirements.” New Features in KITE 2.0
KITE 2.0 offers both instant testing from the desktop and from a
pre-selected group of geographic locations across the Internet cloud.
KITE users can upload Web transaction scripts from the desktop to the
Keynote global test and measurement network and receive free instant
performance data from five cities: San Francisco, New York, London,
Frankfurt and Hong Kong. And because Keynote’s
test & measurement network spans the globe, KITE users can upload the
same scripts to 70+ metropolitan areas worldwide to continue monitoring
and gathering performance data worldwide. The top five technical
features of KITE 2.0 include:
Performance analysis for multi-page transactions;
Native Internet Explorer integration allows for the easy analysis of
AJAX, Flash, JavaScript
Test performance from the desktop, the last mile and the Internet cloud
JavaScript programmability for scripting actions based on DOM events
(Document Object Model)
Record Web application test scripts, playback in ‘burst
mode,’ and share scripts across groups
Addressing A Growing Development, Testing and Web Operations Audience
KITE 2.0 enables Web developers, QA professionals and performance
analysts to execute – with point and click
ease – rapid performance analysis and
validation to measure the end user experience of next generation Web 2.0
applications that include AJAX. Scripts can be shared as benchmarks and
to perform triage among all the Web application life cycle groups,
including developers, QA and IT operations.
Use Cases for KITE 2.0: App Developers, Performance Analysts,
QA, Ops
With KITE 2.0, Web application developers can detect and fix flash
points in applications before they are released to QA and Web operations
teams. Currently, Web operations teams often feel burned when they
receive poorly performing code with flash points that make the
application spiral out of control from a performance standpoint.
Operations groups are increasingly asking Web application developers to ‘bake
in’ performance testing before they receive
the application. KITE 2.0 is perfect in this scenario.
KITE 2.0 also makes it easy for performance analysts from IT operations
to run test scripts as if they were an end user. The KITE 2.0 test
script is recorded, saved and then sent to either the QA or the
development team for evaluation. A performance issue that might be
slowing down the system can then be identified and fixed. Or the same
test script might reveal performance problems associated with a
connection to a server from which all of the Web page images or objects
are being downloaded. Here a fix might be to download the images or
objects from multiple distributed servers to improve performance.
Quality Assurance teams can now use KITE 2.0 in addition to their
standard functional and regression testing tools to test and assess
real-time performance of their Web-based applications from inside the
confines of the corporate network, as well as from the Internet cloud.
KITE provides an array of performance metrics to help with problem
isolation and diagnostics of performance-related issues. KITE utilizes
real and emulated browsers to simplify the task of creating robust,
multi-step/multi-page test scripts against Web applications utilizing
complex Web 2.0 technologies. Once created and tuned, these automated
tests that can be saved in a script repository can be executed as
frequently as necessary from behind the corporate network, or from the
Internet cloud to provide ongoing performance benchmarking throughout
the development/test lifecycle.
And finally, KITE 2.0 can also be used by IT operations to monitor the
performance of Web applications in post-deployment mode. Through the
entire process teams can share scripts, perform instant tests from their
desktops and finally monitor their online business from around the
globe. KITE makes the entire process faster and adaptable to today’s
Web application development lifecycle.
Availability
KITE 2.0 will be available for free download to Keynote customers in
August.
About Keynote
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq "KEYN”)
is the global leader in on-demand test & measurement solutions for
continuously improving the online experience. As an independent and
trusted third-party, Keynote provides IT and marketing executives with
an unbiased view into their Internet services from around the world. For
over a decade, Keynote has been providing measurement data and testing
capabilities that allow companies to understand and improve their
customers’ online and mobile experience.
Keynote has four test and measurement businesses: Web performance,
mobile quality, streaming & VoIP, and customer experience/UX. In
addition, Keynote’s industry analysis group
called Keynote Competitive Research publishes proprietary studies
measuring customer experience and service levels across a wide range of
industries.
Known as The Mobile and Internet Performance Authority™,
Keynote has a market-leading infrastructure of 2,400 measurement
computers and mobile devices in over 240 locations around the world.
Keynote also maintains one of the most representative panels of online
users consisting of 160,000 consumers. Keynote’s
on-demand, hassle-free infrastructure allows businesses to access
services they need, when they need them to pinpoint and fix mobile
quality and Internet problems before they impact customers.
Keynote helps over 2,700 corporate customers become "the
best of the best” by helping them improve
online business performance and mobile communications quality. Keynote’s
customers represent top Internet and mobile companies including American
Express, BP, Caterpillar, Dell, Disney, eBay, E*TRADE, Expedia, FedEx,
Microsoft, SonyEricsson, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone.
Keynote Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California and can
be reached at www.keynote.com or by
phone in the U.S. at (650) 403-2400.
Keynote, The Internet Performance Authority, Perspective and
WebEffective are registered trademarks and The Mobile and Internet
Performance Authority and True Experience are trademarks of Keynote
Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners. © 2008 Keynote Systems, Inc.
