Sunday, July 14, 2002

"Yesterday I found a tool I've been trying to find for ages.. Yesterday I found a tool I've been trying to find for ages. What I wanted is a combination of LogiTest and httpunit - and I think I've found it in maxQ. It acts as a proxy between your browser and a web application, recording the requests and responses. You can then add various tests into the recorded script (it has a few automatic tests) - and play back the script from the command line. By combining maxQ with CruiseControl and a few different web containers - I think I've found a great way to continually test the JIRA web tier against multiple servers. Wicked. I'll let you know how I go testing it during the week. [rebelutionary]" I always look for something like this, then give up and use WWW::Webchat. I find it interesting that maxQ is Jython-based. 5:22:34 PM      comment []  trackback []

zaero says: hey john zaero says: http://radio.weblogs.com/0105852/2002/07/13.html#a692 John says: yeah. It sounds like a neat idea to have a GUI for building your p2p apps. But the commercial part of groove is really unappealling John says: As an enterprise software vendor in their infancy, they can't afford to do volume deals or sell to the unwashed masses. Their strategy is : throw the nifty widget layout tools at developers John says: let them build something neat John says: and get them to fork over $20K zaero says: do you think the tools are worth something? John says: I'll be they are, but the server infrastructure pieces of groove are in a state of perpetual beta John says: i think the MS investment had something to do with it John says: With this VSIP cruft, they now are truly an outsourced R&D lab for MS John says: cross-platform be damned zaero says: what about REBOL? where are they now? zaero says: have they gone under yet? John says: the mailing list is active, and they keep rev'ing the platform John says: but I think strategy-wise they struck out so big with the Morpheus bet John says: they probably lost a year of labor/billables on that snafu zaero says: too bad they got involved with crooks zaero says: but it seems it's hard to avoid crooks nowadays John says: i think rebol/express woudl be a neat, very secure way to move around the 300Meg files John says: there are some arguments against using it (first and foremost, partnering w/smallCo on the rocks) John says: but an easy to deploy, lightweight, x-platform distributed file system is still something to appreciate zaero says: yeah zaero says: what is their price structure? zaero says: has anyone used it to deploy anything? John says: they've done some custom engagements at a few bigCo's, probably mostly proof-of-concept John says: I haven't seen any public client announcements lately John says: i think rebol is ~$200/client 4:43:18 PM      comment []  trackback []