Compuware Gomez 360° Web Load Testing brings together two testing solutions—Gomez Web Load Testing and dynaTrace Test Center Edition—into an integrated offering. This new solution accelerates time-to-market by quickly identifying user experience performance problems and isolating the root cause down to the line of code, the company said. This saves time and money by enabling collaboration across organizations throughout the application lifecycle and reducing testing iterations.

Building on the dynaTrace acquisition, Gomez 360° Web Load Testing represents the next step in Compuware's application performance management strategy of building next-generation APM solutions that bring customers greater business value.

"Gartner is seeing continued challenges for organizations to accurately load test applications," says Thomas Murphy, research director at Gartner. "Today's web applications have increased in complexity and dependency on third-party content and services. Blind spots are increasing, yet business is pressuring IT to deliver faster which creates increased potential for very costly failures in production. The ability to have a complete view of performance enables the test and development team to work together in a more efficient way to drill down from user experience to where the issues are. This is driving a market need for enhancing traditional load-test solutions with server-side performance monitoring solutions."

Business leaders want more application functionality faster, the company said. The application delivery chain has become more complex with content and web services delivered to end users' browsers from multiple sources. An average web transaction includes components delivered from over eight hosts—many originating outside the data center such as content delivery networks, news feeds, ads, analytics, bill payment, and e-commerce platforms.

Gomez 360° Web Load Testing combines high volume cloud-based load with geobased realistic load from Gomez's network of over 150,000 Last Mile locations to find problems across the entire web application delivery chain.

"I have always been a proponent of including a deep-diagnostics solution as a standard component in a performance tester's and/or application performance manager's toolkit and for many years, dynaTrace has been and remains on my short list of recommended deep-diagnostics tools." says Scott Barber, CTO of PerfTestPlus Inc. "While deep-diagnostics is no substitute for programmer-level performance testing, it certainly increases the odds of being able to conclusively identify and resolve the performance issues that will only present themselves during late lifecycle testing or production monitoring quickly, and with minimum churn. Integrating dynaTrace into the Compuware Gomez offering undeniably and significantly increases its value for organizations that care about delivering well-performing web applications."


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