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CA Technologies mise sur l’Open Source avec Blazemeter

Alon Girmonsky, CA Technologies

Simplifier l’Open Source n’est pas une mince affaire, mais une forte attente, comme l’a pressenti Alon Girmonsky en fondant Blazemeter en février 2011. Depuis son rachat en septembre 2016 par CA technologies (pour 90 millions de dollars), il occupe le poste de vice-président, Business Unit Executive de CA Blazemeter chez l’éditeur.

Clairement positionné sur le cycle DevOps et le test automatisé de code applicatif en continu via AWS (plus précisément: un serveur EC2 d’Amazon Web Services), Blazemeter s’autoproclame “The Performance Engineering Platform for DevOps”, ou “Performance Testing as Code”. Pour en savoir plus, silicon.fr a rencontré son fondateur lors de CA World à Las Vegas.

A quoi sert exactement Blazemeter ?

Le test est une étape capitale pour tous les développements applicatifs. Après le développement du code, un premier build doit passer divers tests avant d’être déployé en production. Puis, chaque modification ou chaque version fait appel à un nouveau développement qui entraîne à son tour toute une batterie de tests avant redéploiement.

Blazemeter est une plate-forme en mode SaaS dédiée à tous ces tests. L’objectif consiste à automatiser au maximum les tests. Tous les développeurs et les membres des équipes de production (Ops) ou de tests de l’entreprise font partie de Blazemeter et participent au processus. À travers son compte, chacun peut définir des tests, les exécuter, les analyser…

Il existe déjà de nombreux outils de création de scripts de tests…

CA Blazemeter intègre des scripts comme ceux de JMeter

L’objectif de la solution ne consiste pas à créer des scripts de test. En revanche, il peut ingérer tous les scripts Open Source générés par des solutions comme JMeter, Grinder Selenium, Siege, Gatling, Locust…

En fait, il automatise les scripts de tests provenant d’autres produits, à travers un langage DSL (Domain Specific Langage) qui peut être exécuté et généré des rapports. Un framework de code qui s’intègre à des applications ou autres logiciels comme des solutions de gestion de la performance (APM). Le DSL est justement là pour simplifier cette intégration.

Comment fonctionne la solution pour faciliter les multiples tests?

Des rapports complets et détaillés.

Blazemeter exécute de multiples tests en parallèle, par exemple : des tests fonctionnels, des tests d’API, de régression, etc. Non seulement il les exécute en parallèle, mais il génère aussi un rapport unique. Il devient donc plus simple d’exécuter tous ces tests pour toutes les applications, aussi bien traditionnelles que Web ou mobiles, mais aussi pour tous les microservices et les APIs.

Chacun peut concevoir ses automatisations de tests en code DSL et les lancer sans quitter son environnement de développement ou de tests préféré. Le développeur lancera ces tests fonctionnels et le chargé de production ces tests de préproduction, puis ces tests en production. Grâce à l’automatisation et à cette “compression”, l’ensemble de ces tests peut être désormais mené en quelques minutes, contre quelques jours voir plus auparavant.

Le même langage DSL est utilisé pour configurer et lancer les tests avec tous les outils de tests de performance open source les plus utilisés

Quels sont vos rapports avec l’Open Source ? Existe-t-il une version libre de Blazemeter ?

Tout d’abord, nos équipes contribuent fortement à l’évolution d’outils Open Source de tests comme JMeter de la fondation apache.

Par ailleurs, nous proposons également un projet Open Source de notre framework d’automatisation des tests de performance appelée Taurus. Cette version ne peut fonctionner que sur une machine individuelle, tandis que Blazemeter est un SaaS à forte évolutivité, qui propose également le reporting et la gestion évoluée de l’ensemble des tests de l’entreprise.

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[Webinar Recording] How to Test the Performance & Visual Appearance of Your App Under Load

Watch this on-demand webinar, to learn how to successfully combine frontend and backend testing, so you can see how you app behaves and appears under load.

Applitools and performance testing experts BlazeMeter teamed up to deliver this in-depth webinar on combining frontend and backend testing, allowing you to get a comprehensive view of your website, web or mobile app, while under load. The webianr covers the following topics:

Fundamentals of back-end performance testing and front-end visual testing

Types of rendering issues that can transpire under load – and how to detect them

How to gain actionable insights as to how your app behaves and appears under load

LIVE DEMO: How to run a full and comprehensive real-world test in real time, simulating thousands of users with Selenium

Watch it now:

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[Webinar] How to Automatically Test Performance & UI Aspects of Your App Under Load

Wednesday, September 16 at 1pm ET / 10am PT

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Learn how to successfully combine frontend and backend testing, so you can see how you app behaves and appears under load, in this hands-on webinar.

Applitools and performance testing experts BlazeMeter are teaming up to deliver to deliver a in-depth webinar on combining frontend and backend testing - allowing you to get a comprehensive view of your website, web or mobile application.

The webinar will show developers and testers how they can better understand how the front end of their app appears and functions under heavy load. We will demonstrate how to build a Selenium-based performance test simulating thousands of users, while simultaneously conducting a visual test as well.

Join our two testing automation experts - Adam Carmi, Co-founder and VP R&D at Applitools and BlazeMeter's VP Customer Success Michael Redman, and learn:

Fundamentals of backend performance testing and frontend visual testing

Types of rendering issues that can transpire under load – and how to detect them

How to gain actionable insights as to how your app behaves and appears under load

How to run a full and comprehensive real-world test in real time, simulating thousands of users with Selenium

How to automatically detect visual regressions under load - by running visual load tests on a regular basis

There will be time at the end for Q&A - so come prepared!

Save your seat now: Click here to register.

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App tester BlazeMeter buys Loadosophia, which analyzes test results

Above: Load testing can be a key step in the production of web and mobile apps, if developers want those apps to stand up to significant usage.

Image Credit: spencer cooper/Flickr

BlazeMeter, a startup that tests to see if websites and apps work by stretching their limits with loads, has bought Loadosophia, a startup that provides analytics tools for results stemming from the Apache JMeter open-source load-testing project.

Loadosophia customers will be able to keep using that service, which will become part of BlazeMeter’s offering, according to a statement on the news today.

The deal also provides open-source talent to BlazeMeter. Loadosophia founder Andrey Pokhilko, who is becoming BlazeMeter’s chief scientist, has focused for years on the JMeter community and created a site for JMeter plugins, according to the statement. Before starting Loadosophia, Pokhilko led the load-testing division of Russian search company Yandex.

Moscow-based Loadosophia has no other employees and never took on venture funding, a BlazeMeter spokeswoman told VentureBeat.

In the world of business-focused services, load testing doesn’t carry the same level of glamour as, say, file-sharing or project-management tools. But that doesn’t mean it’s not important. It’s key for companies that want to ensure their sites will be able to withstand large amounts of traffic, just as car manufacturers want to make sure their vehicles can withstand a few small fender benders before they roll off the assembly line.

And it’s an area that’s attracted consistent investment. For years load-testing provider SOASTA has brought on venture funding. Meanwhile other startups like Neotys and Nouvola have been picking up funding recently.

Now BlazeMeter could be better equipped to compete in the market, particularly against enterprise-focused load-testing software from HP, IBM, and Compuware.

BlazeMeter, based in Mountain View, Calif., announced a $6.5 million funding round in May.

Well-suited to web application developers and Quality Assurance (QA) professionals, BlazeMeter provides a self-service professional grade load testing cloud with unlimited testing capacity, comprehensive and interactive real-time repor... read more »

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The venture model...is fine. Just needs a thesis that makes sense.

News broke today that YL Ventures has announced the closing of a new $27.5M VC fund, YL Ventures II, based in Silicon Valley and targeting Israeli start-ups.

This is great news - and it's all the more gratifying because Yoav Leitersdorf is one of the smartest and most focused investors in Israel. Yoav has been talking about tech-driven investing for years, and has been actually doing tech-driven investments when others were just talking about it.

There are many pieces of conventional wisdom when it comes to venture capital. Here are three of them, all of which are true:

It's nearly impossible to raise a new fund.

It's important to have a clearly delineated strategy.

Investment discipline is crucial.

Lots of would-be VCs fail to raise capital in the first place. Many raise capital, only to fail to define a strategy. And many raise capital, define a strategy, and then fail to execute on it. YL's case illustrates that a smart strategy coupled with intense discipline can drive success in both investments and in fund formation.

YL's strategy, which was set forth publicly on the small firm's website years ago (click here to see it) is simple: 

Be seriously capital efficient: small investments in companies that are not burning tons of money.

Facilitate the "big VC story" if possible but focus on making money for your LPs even in the (vastly more likely) case of a smaller exit.

Technology-driven investments. It is possible to make money in companies with no technical barriers to entry, but investment decisions are a lot harder to make and outcomes harder to predict. Some investors are just better at making technically-driven bets - and the existence of some IP creates barriers to entry, protects pricing power, and (with luck) can create a floor exit valuation.

Work hard with your portfolio companies to define a strategy and an exit plan.

I think YL's strategy makes sense in general - but it's an especially strong strategy for a small emerging fund to adopt because if an investor can plan to make money on smaller exits (outcomes that might not interest the mega-VCs) and still gain exposure to potentially larger outcomes - that investor can gain access to opportunities before his more established competition can move in. As many have pointed out, there is a limit to which the mega-VCs can take very early-stage risk, particularly when exit outcomes are likely to be small.

Having discussed any number of start-ups with Yoav over the years, what most impresses me about him and his fund is the discipline. It's one thing to state a strategy. It's another thing to actually live by it. I've seen Yoav turn down a lot of interesting investments because they didn't match his strategy perfectly. I respect him tremendously because of it - and I am sure it will continue to bring success to YL as it already has with investments like Acceloweb (acquired by Limelight), Clicktale, Seculert, Blazemeter, and Upstream Commerce. If you haven't heard of these companies, check them out.