This IDC Buyer Case Study discusses Bottle Rocket Apps’ evolution of a quality approach that encompasses mobile testing via testing in the cloud. Bottle Rocket Apps (www.bottlerocketapps.com) focuses on creation of mobile branding for companies seeking mission-critical applications on mobile platforms. The company urgently needed testing capacity to quickly respond to customer demands and specifically to be able to deliver a complex mobile application within a very quick time frame. This document discusses a specific project from Black Entertainment Television (BET) that required immediate access to broad, variegated, significant resources for mobile simulation so that Bottle Rocket could quickly create a mobile application to support a daily television audience of 800,000 to 1 million viewers as part of “106 & Park,” a popular live video countdown show from BET.

Mu Dynamics has pushed the integration of its Blitz application testing product onto multiple platforms including Heroku, AppHarbor, Acquia, and CloudFlare in an attempt to gain wider developer uptake. The integration has incorporated Mu’s cloud-based load and performance testing technology, with a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) layer, a Content Management System (CMS), as well as web security and performance offerings.

“We think [performance testing] needs to be part of that continuous process,” said Ajit Sancheti , co-founder of Mu Dynamics, Inc. Today Mu Dynamics announced the integration of their Blitz cloud-based load test tool with Atlassian’s Bamboo, a Continuous Integration (CI) server.

As cloud computing continues to mature, one is hard pressed to identify a class of enterprise software that is not delivered and consumed as a service. Performance and load-based application testing, important parts of ALM, can be counted among these cloud offerings. Moving these functions to the cloud offers typical cloud benefits, most notably lowered capital and operational costs, and support for distributed development teams. But cloud-based testing also changes the way the tests themselves are performed. These changes come at a time when more and more organizations are looking at software as their competitive differentiator.

We all know what happens when your app performs like a pig. You lose users, customers and revenue. Your app is slow, the failing pigs don’t amuse your customers and you hear about it as the trending topic on Twitter.

There is a great rush to move applications to the cloud and enable them for delivery on mobile devices. One of the critical tasks to make this move work is the provision of efficient performance testing.  Mu Dynamics has stepped into this essential market with Blitz. I recently spoke with Ajit Sancheti, Co-Founder at Mu, about their move.

Implementing IPsec properly isn’t like “flipping a switch,” adds Thomas Maufer, director of Technical Marketing for Mu Dynamics , a testing and application validation company. It requires having a Public Key Infrastructure, which is a repository and management system for digital certificates. Managing those certificates within an enterprise is one thing, but connecting two enterprises is a different level of challenge.

Mu Dynamics is extending its application testing know-how to Long Term Evolution (LTE) with a new set of tools designed specifically to test the all-IP 4G network.

Mu Dynamics, a start-up that specializes in load testing cloud apps at Internet scale, has released the results of an investigation that finds that Skype voice calls on Mac OS X using the latest client consumes 28 percent more bandwidth and network resources than Skype on an iPhone, iPad, Android phone, and even the PC.

Already vendors are trying to support this with developer-friendly tools such as Juniper’s network sandbox. It has a fancier name, but essentially this is a cloud-based network that a developer can mock up as their production network to test new applications in, so they can see how the network needs to be configured.

Junosphere Labs also includes and interoperates with applications and products from select Juniper partners, such as Cariden Technologies for traffic management and simulation; Mu Dynamics for application modeling; Packet Design for Layer 3 visibility across an IP network; Spirent for testing and validating the performance of virtualized and cloud computing environments; and WANDL, for network planning, design and optimization.

The biggest challenges in cyber security today are keeping up with emerging threats and making getting your cyber security to be proactive instead of reactive.

Mu Dynamics offers Mu Studio Performance Suite, which allows Juniper customers to accurately recreate thousands of applications to model the mix of traffic of their actual environment and validate application-level policies on firewalls or networking systems.

Mu Dynamics is making it easier for devs and provisioning teams to validate and test the performance of cloud applications directly from popular PaaS, CMS or web management apps they’re already using. 

Mu Dynamics has a really good pitch—with the company’s Mu Studio Scale suite, you can load test your enterprise infrastructure by impersonating, say, a million iPhone users hammering it with your custom iPhone app. Or, you can have the tool navigate through a website, make selections, and even go through a complete sales funnel to checkout.

Blitz.io is a self service load and performance testing platform. It’s a new offering from Mu Dynamics, leaders in the application testing space, and we’re thrilled to make Blitz instantly available to CloudFlare customers right now as a CloudFlare App.

The insatiable demand for business- and consumer-focused applications has changed the landscape dramatically for service providers, network equipment manufacturers and large enterprises that operate their own network.

Data traffic becomes harder to anticipate, predict and can overflow the network or the handset… AT&T Labs is working with developers to understand how apps behave on the network (products such as those from Mu Dynamics can help with this) as well as researching things such as algorithmic flow control on the network and better signaling and control of how data flows through the networks.

No, this isn’t some kind of carnival pitch. It’s a new product offering from Mu Dynamics called blitz.io that allows developers building in the cloud to load test their apps for as little as a buck.

Blitz.io was one of the Couchbase Developer Award winners recently announced at CouchConf. Blitz.io won the Best CouchDB App for pushing CouchDB to the limits.

Tool lets carriers and cloud providers use a record/playback approach to telecom service testing to ensure the scalability of new services and apps.

Summary for starters – running Django and gunicorn with multiple workers on a single free Heroku node is possible. Combined with an external PostgreSQL instance coupled with connection pooling for a massive 8x speedup. And it can actually be free.

Partnerpedia interviews Ajit Sancheti, Vice President of Business Development at the Mu Dynamics’ Interop booth #627.

Mu Dynamics has extended its application testing software to recreate the current mix of applications in production and then test these as a group to see how they affect the network and each other.

The telecommunications landscape is varied. It includes the number of networks and the types of networks, and demands include the requirement that all the applications and services co-exist peacefully and that networks support finicky applications. This, understandably, has created a confused and highly volatile operational environment.

The Internet is, of course, awash in video. It turns out that the way in which that video reaches viewers matters. Mu Dynamics has designed tests that measure the impact on network operators and end users. Kresse and Guruswamy tell IT Business Edge’s Carl Weinschenk that the differences are substantial and that YouTube was the most efficient and Amazon the most difficult.

The switch to IPv6 will not make networks more secure or more vulnerable to attack in and of itself, according to a panel of industry experts. But failing to test equipment and to make sure security features are functioning as planned could leave networks vulnerable during and after the transition to the new numbering plan.

Yesterday, Mu Dynamics, a company which aims to provide some tools to help ISPs anticipate how specific applications will affect their network at scale, released data showing the Netflix threat is so much worse.

If you had to pick between Hulu, YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand, which would you say is the easiest on the network? Mu Dynamics says it’s YouTube. Mu came out with its Application Quadrant report yesterday, which used the company’s new testing technology to compare how the desktop versions of Hulu, YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Video affected fixed networks.

As part of Mu Dynamics ‘s new application-testing platform, TestCloud, the vendor has access to data on individual apps and the effect they’re having on the network. Its initial report suggests that popular scapegoat YouTube Inc. is actually the most friendly video app to both consumers and wireless operators in standard or high definition.

Testing and validation vendor Mu Dynamics announced today a set of capabilities it believes will help operators and enterprises tame the application explosion currently wreaking havoc on their networks.

Mu Dynamics unveiled a testing solution that can accurately recreate how applications will impact wireless networks. The proliferation of third-party applications that end users are downloading to smartphones can leave wireless operators unaware of what is going across their networks and how those apps are impacting the networks.

The thousands of applications flooding networks means operators need to test and validate real traffic as opposed to simulated transactions and throughput alone.

Change is coming. The protocol that underpins the Internet, IPv4, is at its limit. Early this year, the last of the IPv4 addresses were distributed, marking the end of an era.

NGN services require next-generation telecom testing tools that are flexible, customizable and focus on applications rather than the bits underneath them.

Are you ready for IPv6? If you hope to have enough web addresses to meet the needs of your clients, your answer should be a resounding, “Yes!” The reality in this web-hungry world, all carriers should be properly testing IP services to ensure they can support both IPv4 and IPv6 services at the same time.

The standard IPv6 on the Web is soon to run out of available addresses and to raise public awareness of the move to IPv6, Google, Facebook and Yahoo are taking the lead.

Mu’s Thomas Maufer recorded live at the IPv6 Conference

Mu’s Thomas Maufer recorded live at the IPv6 Conference