NeoLoad

NeoLoad is a Web Application Stress Tool from Neotys that can simulate the server load imposed by thousands of simultaneous users upon any web site or web-based software.

Neoload claimas that a straightforward installation enables anyone to get a comprehensive web testing software up and running in minutes.

With the help of Neoload's user-friendly interface, users with no prior experience of web application stress tools can manage extensive web server stress tests.

Features include

-designing advanced web performance testing scenarios (data extraction, loops, conditions, response validation) has never been so easy : no scripting needed, no programming knowledge required.

-Neoload supports any type of web application including those using J2EE, .NET, AJAX, SOAP, PHP, ASP, CGI, Flash, applets, etc.

-NeoLoad provides optional web stress testing modules for additional server monitoring and SOAP support functions for an extra fee.

QEngine

AdventNet QEngine from AdventNet is a test automation tool which supports load testing and functional testing for Web Applications. It also provides out of the box support for testing SOAP Web Services.

AdventNet QEngine for Load Testing helps ensure, your 'N' Tier enterprise applications can meet heavy user loads during peak hours and have high uptime in production. It helps meet end user service levels and empowers you to successfully roll out business applications in to production by proactively load testing the application.

QEngine performance testing can help you identify bottlenecks in your application code and eliminate them proactively. After performance testing is completed, Load Testing can help identify inventory requirements and help you decide whether its best for you to scale vertically (adding high end servers) or horizontally (adding more web servers, databases etc).

Performance Testing: Weed out bottlenecks in your web application
Load Testing : Identify server and database needs before going to production
Functional Testing : Test functionality of Web Applications and ensure quality during Application Development Life Cycle.
Stress testing : Learn if application recovers gracefully
AJAX Testing for Web 2.0 Applications
Performance Monitors : Conclude on Inventory Requirements
Distributed Load Testing : Scale for 1000s of Virtual User Load using commodity hardware
Web Services Testing : Performance Test your SOAP Web Services
J2EE Diagnostics, enhanced Database Monitoring and Application Server Monitoring using ManageEngine Applications Manager

FunkLoad

A functional and load web tester from http://funkload.nuxeo.org/, written in Python, whose main use cases are:

Functional testing of web projects, and thus regression testing as well.
Performance testing: by loading the web application and monitoring your servers it helps you to pinpoint bottlenecks, giving a detailed report of performance measurement.
Load testing tool to expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, like volume testing or longevity testing.
Stress testing tool to overwhelm the web application resources and test the application recoverability.
Writing web agents by scripting any web repetitive task, like checking if a site is alive.

FunkLoad is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
Functional test are pure Python scripts using the pyUnit framework like normal unit test. Python enable complex scenarios to handle real world applications.
Truly emulates a web browser (single-threaded) using Richard Jones' webunit:
basic authentication support
cookies support
referrer support
fetching css, javascript and images
emulating a browser cache
file upload and multipart/form-data submission
https support
http_proxy support
Advanced test runner with many command-line options:
set the target server url
display the fetched page in real time in your browser
debug mode
check performance of a single page (or set of pages) inside a test
green/red color mode
select or exclude tests cases using a regex
support normal pyUnit test
support doctest from a plain text file or embedded in python docstring
Turn a functional test into a load test:
just by invoking the bench runner you can identify scalability and performance problems.
Detailed bench reports in ReST or HTML (and PDF via ps2pdf) containing:
the bench configuration
tests, pages, requests stats and charts.
the 5 slowest requests.
servers cpu usage, load average, memory/swap usage and network traffic charts.
an http error summary list
Easy test customization using a configuration file or command line options.
Easy test creation using TCPWatch as proxy recorder, so you can use your web browser and produce a FunkLoad test automatically.
Provides web assertion helpers.
Provides a funkload.CPSTestCase to ease Zope and Nuxeo CPS testing.
Easy to install (EasyInstall) and use, see examples in the demo folder.
Works fine with CPS or any Zope application, CherryPy, Nuxeo EP or any JBoss Seam application ...

SQS

SQS is Europe's largest testing group.

The UK subsidiary offers a range of technical services for testing web, e-Commerce, infrastructure, security and client server applications.

Load and performance and stress testing to ensure that web based sites perform at optimum levels are uniquely combined with performance tuning services. Bottlenecks and problems are identified and solutions are implemented or suggestions for the most effective changes made.

Automation is a key element of their service offering and provides specific methodologies and procedures that guarantee time and cost savings are gained and that investment in testing tools are realised.

The use of tMosiac, SQS-UK's enabling technology guarantees success in automation and enables significant time and cost savings to be made on all projects.

Consultancy services provide tailor made strategies that include planning, time scale estimates, resource planning, specifications and options of tool implementation and training and staffing requirements.

Testing services ensure that preplanned strategies are implemented and delivered in the most effective way. Project teams take full responsibility for the implementation and success of your testing projects.

Their flagship idea, Quality Governance, is the building block that provides the foundation for transforming IT into business value and provides the effective direction of quality and control throughout the business.

Spirent Avalanche Load Testing Appliance

Part of the Avalanche suite of testing tools from Spirent Communications

Avalanche provides considerable flexibility, enabling testers to specify load variables such as user sessions, new user sessions per second, transactions,transactions per second, connections or connections per second. One load profile can be specified for an entire test, or a separate load profile can be defined for each group of simulated users. This flexible approach enables
different actions, network characteristics and loads to be specified for each group of simulated users. In addition, graduated load-stressing capabilities save time by allowing testers to set up user and network parameters just once and then
perform tests at multiple load levelsgenerated, recreating a wide range of real-world loading scenarios. This proactive approach enables you to correct trouble spots and bottlenecks before network slowdowns or costly outages occur.

Features include

Simulating load variables such as user sessions, new user sessions, and variations on transactions per second. Different loads per group of users.

Proxy Sniffer

Perform professional load tests and obtain a wide range of informative diagrams and statistics about the response time behavior, the throughput, and the stability of your web application.

The provider is David Fischer GmbH

Features:

Universal HTTP/S Proxy-Recorder
The universal proxy-recorder supports to record web surfing sessions with any web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari ...). Also Ajax calls as well as XML/SOAP messages can be recorded.

High-Performance GUI
Recorded web surfing sessions can be functionally enhanced using the GUI with a few mouse clicks. Additional requirements, such as logons with individual user accounts, or the handling of dynamically-exchanged session parameters, can be efficiently implemented in a short time.

Unlimited Scalability - Simulating Thousands of Users
Depending on the test scenario, hundreds of web users can already be simulated by only one load-releasing computer. The scalable architecture of the product supports additionally an unlimited load generation with thousands of users by a simple combination of several Windows and/or Unix systems to a homogeneous, load-releasing cluster.

Realistic Test Scenarios
Several load tests can be run simultaneously. Multiple client IP addresses can be configured for each load-releasing system, allowing a web application cluster with a load balancer to be stressed in a realistic way. The network bandwidth for each simulated user can be reduced in order to simulate slow access connections.

Support for all Current Authentication Methods
Proxy Sniffer supports logging in to web applications with HTML form parameters as well as with HTTP basic authentication (username/password pop-up window), NTLM authentication (Windows domain accounts) and X509 client certificates (PKCS#12). Each simulated user can be allocated an individual login account.

Real Emulation of Web Surfing Sessions
Together with the automatic support of session cookies Proxy Sniffer offers also to handle dynamically exchanged session parameters efficiently: e.g. hidden form parameter, .NET VIEWSTATE parameter und J2EE URL rewriting parameter.

Automatic Protection from "false positive" Measurement Results
During a load test, Proxy Sniffer compares the content of the received response with the content of the originally recorded response using a unique heuristic algorithm. This powerful feature allows the detection of errors at the application level (malformed web pages) - even when a web page with a correct HTTP response code is returned. This protection against "false positive" measurement results is automatically provided in each load test.

Real-Time Statistics and Real-Time Error Analysis
During a load test, an overview of the measured response times for all web pages and their URLs is displayed in real-time, in addition to the display of the current activity of all simulated users and all errors which have occurred. Furthermore, all error details can be shown and analyzed in real-time during a running load test.

Detailed Measurement Results
After the end of every test, there are up to 18 different diagrams and statistics available. From these results, a complete formatted test report can be created as a PDF document. Results of different test runs can be compared to each other, allowing the efficacy of tuning measures to be evaluated, and to visualize the response time behavior of the web application under different load conditions.

Support for Windows and Unix-Like Operating Systems
Proxy Sniffer can be deployed on Windows XP/2003/Vista systems as well as on all Unix-like systems such as Solaris, Linux, BSD and Mac OS

The Grinder

A Java load testing framework downloadable from sourceforge.net.

Main features are

Generic Approach Load test anything that has a Java API. This includes common cases such as HTTP web servers, SOAP and REST web services, and application servers (CORBA, RMI, JMS, EJBs), as well as custom protocols.

Flexible Scripting Tests are written in the powerful Jython scripting language.

Distributed Framework A graphical console allows multiple load injectors to be monitored and controlled, and provides centralised script editing and distribution.

Mature HTTP Support Automatic management of client connections and cookies. SSL. Proxy aware. Connection throttling. Sophisticated record and replay of the interaction between a browser and a web site.

Curl-loader

Curl-loader (also known as "omes-nik" and "davilka") is an open-source tool written in C-language, simulating application load and application behavior of thousands and tens of thousand HTTP/HTTPS and FTP/FTPS clients, each with its own source IP-address. In contrast to other tools curl-loader is using real C-written client protocol stacks, namely, HTTP and FTP stacks of libcurl and TLS/SSL of openssl, and simulates user behavior with support for login and authentication flavors.

The tool is useful for performance loading of various application services, for testing web and ftp servers and traffic generation. Activities of each virtual client are logged and collected statistics includes information about resolving, connection establishment, sending of requests, receiving responses, headers and data received/sent, errors from network, TLS/SSL and application (HTTP, FTP) level events and errors.

- Rampup of the virtual clients number at loading start in either automatic or manual mode;

- IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and URIs;

- HTTP 1.1. GET, POST and PUT, including file upload operations;

- HTTP user authentication login with POST or GET+POST methods. Unique configurable username and password for each virtual client as well as configurable posted string (post-forms) are the options. Another option is loading of users with credentials from a tokens text file;

- HTTP POST/GET forms with up to 16 tokens filled from a tokens text file;

- HTTP user logoff with POST, GET+POST, or GET (cookies); POST logoff with configurable posted string (post-forms);

- HTTP multipart form data POST-ing as in RFC1867;

- HTTP Web and Proxy Authentication (HTTP 401 and 407 responses) with Basic, Digest (RFC2617) and NTLM supported;

- HTTP 3xx redirections with unlimited number of redirections;

- HTTP cookies and DNS caches;

- FTP passive and active, FTP upload;

- Full customization of client request HTTP/FTP headers ;

- Transfer limit rate for each client download or upload operation on a per url bases;

- URL fetching probability;

- TCP connections reuse or re-establishment on a per url bases;

- Unlimited configurable number of URLs. Mixing of HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS urls in a single batch (test plan) configuration;

- Connection establishment timers for each URL;

- URL completion timers monitoring and enforcement for each client;

- Inter/after URL "sleeping" timers, including random timers taken from a configurable interval;

- Logfile with tracing activities for each virtual client. The logfile is automatically rewinded, when reaching configurable size preventing disk crashes;

- Logging of responses (headers and bodies) to files.

- Pre-cooked batch configuration (test plan) examples;

- Load Status GUI at console and with output to file;

- Status and statistics for each virtual client, which are logged to file;

TestingMaster

Performs web site stress testing, from Testing Master load and speed testing and provides webmasters with easy and cost-effective way of stress testing web site performance characteristics and finding bottlenecks.

Features:-

-- Accurate Real User Simulation during performance testing website

-- Dynamic Test Data Generation

-- Recording and Playback of HTTPS/SSL Pages

-- Flexible Test Volume & Load Definition

-- Clear Reports and Graphs

-- Full Log of Virtual Users Activities

-- Intuitive user-friendly interface

Self-Support Suite and Eclipse

SourceLabs, the company innovating open source software support, today announced that its Self-Support Suite now supports the open source Eclipse development environment. SourceLabs' Self-Support technology dramatically reduces the complexity of enterprise Linux and Java application development and maintenance, giving developers, corporate IT professionals, and solution providers an on-demand way to support web applications using the Eclipse Foundation's open source development framework.

SourceLabs Self-Support Tools quickly customize to the Eclipse environment, taking into account any dependencies. Discovery technologies identify issues and rank the quality of field-tested solutions, resolving problems in just minutes. SourceLabs' information repository has over 17 million unique Linux and open source Java objects.

"Enterprises are facing real complexity and cost of ownership issues as they adopt open source software," said Byron Sebastian, CEO and Founder of SourceLabs. "Our Self-Support provides direct access to open source expertise and helps preserve the cost savings by giving users a way to automatically identify and eliminate issues. Developers are using open source frameworks such as Eclipse to simplify writing enterprise applications. Now the support is simplified as well."

Eclipse extends the already wide array of Java and Linux technologies already included in SourceLabs' Self-Support Suite that includes the Spring Framework, Hibernate, Apache Struts, Apache Tomcat, and Apache Axis. SourceLabs Self-Support technology is a significant breakthrough in discovery, navigation and ranking the most current information of open source software. Indexing, managing, and storing the data, SourceLabs uses advanced pattern matching and predictive analysis algorithm to automate troubleshooting, reduce routine tasks from days to minutes, and uses analysis to flag potential problems before they can impact systems or designs.

The Eclipse platform is supported by the open source community and comprised of software projects that are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development.

vPerformer

Verisium vPerformer is a product that can be used assess the performance and scalability of web applications. vPerformer reveals the behavior of your web application when it is subject to extreme stress. You can measure the performance characteristics of your application by generating automated test scripts and replaying either recorded or customized test scripts that simulate thousands of concurrent virtual users.

In addition to showing you the performance characteristics of your own application, vPerformer enables you to monitor the state of any associated external component that influences the behavior of your application. These components include web servers, application servers, database servers, operating systems, network devices, and SNMP implementations of various vendors. This allows you to identify performance bottlenecks and pinpoint the source of the performance problem.

Features:
-user-friendly interface based on point-and-click operations
-uses the industry standard JavaScript language
-vPerformer can simulate thousands of virtual users while placing a negligible load
-roup recorded HTTP requests by web page or it can record each HTTP request individually.
-Support for multiple platforms, browsers, web servers, application servers and database servers over a LAN or WAN.

JCrawler

JCrawler is an open-source (under the CPL) Stress-Testing Tool for web-applications. It comes with the crawling/exploratory feature. You can give JCrawler a set of starting URLs and it will begin crawling from that point onwards, going through any URLs it can find on its way and generating load on the web application. The load parameters (hits/sec) are configurable.

Features:
Crawling
Human pattern
Http Redirects and Cookies
OSS and tested
Console mode
Easy configuration
Platform independent

Pylot

Pylot is a free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.

Pylot generates concurrent load (HTTP Requests), verifies server responses, and produces reports with metrics. Tests suites are executed and monitored from a GUI or shell/console.

Current Features:
multi-threaded load generator
HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) support
response verification with regular expressions
execution/monitoring console
real-time stats
results reports with graphs
GUI mode
shell/console mode
cross-platform

http://www.pylot.org/

LoadRunner Add-In From J9

J9 Technologies Inc. today announced a new solution in its JDBC Protocol Add-in product line, enabling customers to extend the capabilities of HP LoadRunner, to stress and isolate problems in the backend data tier and deploy new applications with confidence. J9 is a member of the HP Quality Management Ecosystem, which provides alliance members the ability to develop test accelerators for HP Quality Center and HP Performance Center to support additional platforms, applications and environments.


The JDBC Protocol Add-in leverages HP LoadRunner technology, capturing all SQL traffic going from a Java application to the backend database and playing it back to directly exercise the data tier for high concurrency testing. This helps QA teams apply a measurable and repeatable load to the database and expose potential performance problems early in the development cycle. The auto-generation of database testing scripts replaces the need for writing complex Java code and frees up QA resources for other QA activities.


The JDBC Protocol Add-in from J9 Technologies is fully tested with the full suite of HP LoadRunner solutions, and can easily be used alongside all other HP LoadRunner protocols to create a more realistic and comprehensive load test.


"For the last 6 years, J9 Technologies has been working closely with HP to ensure that customers get more out of their HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Center investments," said Clay Roach, President and CEO for J9 Technologies. "We are very excited about this latest addition in our new line of JDBC Protocol Add-ins and the value it will deliver to our mutual customers for simplifying their JDBC testing efforts. The JDBC Protocol Add-in can help reduce testing cycles dramatically and enable QA, Dev and DBA teams to collaborate on fine-tuning database testing."


"HP is committed to helping our customers rapidly deliver critical business applications that function and perform according to the needs of the business," said Erez Barak, director of product marketing, Software, HP. "HP's collaboration with J9 helps our customers increase efficiency by streamlining the complex process of database testing."

Hammerhead 2

Hammerhead 2 is a stress testing tool designed to test out your web server and web site. It can initiate multiple connections from IP aliases and simulated numerous (256+) users at any given time. The rate at which Hammerhead 2 attempts to pound your site is fully configurable, there are numerous other options for trying to create problems with a web site (so you can fix them). It can be used to test the behaviour of the port under load, or the ability of the port to service a set of requests. Warning: Hammerhead can destroy a web site very quickly (and cost you lots of money if you pay for traffic you generate). It should only be used to generate heavy loads on local web sites for testing purposes.

http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net/

StressTester

Enterprise load and performance testing tool for web applications. Features of the Advanced user journey modeling, scalable load, system resources monitors and results analysis. Suitable for any Web, JMS, IP or SQL Application. OS independent. StressTesters big claimed selling point is that there is zero zcripting.

Tekmark Global Solutions

Tekmark(R) Global Solutions LLC, has seen its TekSecure Labs(R) division, a provider of network IT managed security services and the Tek+Detect(SM) offering, has successfully completed the rigorous annual PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) Approved Scanning Vendors (ASV) testing process and has been recertified by the Council.

This certification complements TekSecure Lab's Tek+Store(SM) offering that monitors and manages security devices. To maintain an unbiased and independent evaluation, the ASV security assessments are performed by the professional services team of TekSecure Labs whereas the management and monitoring of security devices is performed by the operations team. This certification, along with capabilities in circuit procurement, circuit provisioning, wiring and bill consolidation services, positions TekSecure Labs as a single solution provider, thereby meeting a wide range of its clients' needs.

The PCI Data Security Standard (DSS), endorsed by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc., requires merchants and service providers that store, process or transmit cardholder data, to adopt information security controls and processes to ensure cardholder data protection. A key component of the PCI DSS is the requirement for organizations to have quarterly, external vulnerability scans performed by an ASV qualified by the PCI SSC. TekSecure Labs is such a qualified ASV and performs external vulnerability scans on a regular basis for numerous merchants and service providers.

Jeremiah Sahlberg, Director of Security Services for TekSecure Labs stated, "We are pleased to continue offering PCI ASV scanning services to our clients, helping them to maintain a secure network and meet the evolving PCI compliance requirements."

TekSecure Labs has again achieved approved status by subjecting its Tek+Detect methodology to rigorous testing on the Council's infrastructure, which simulates the network of a typical customer. In an era of increasingly sophisticated attacks on systems, the PCI DSS annual ASV qualification reassures merchants and service providers that they are being assessed accurately and fairly against the most current payment industry requirements. Additionally, the vendors approved by the PCI Security Standards Council are the only entities qualified to perform PCI DSS external vulnerability scans.

"The PCI Security Standards Council has developed clear guidelines to ensure that scanning vendors are up to date and providing the latest in cardholder data security protection," said Bob Russo, General Manager, PCI Security Standards Council. "By participating in the annual ASV certification process and maintaining their certification, TekSecure Labs demonstrates they are playing an active part in this important end goal."
"Our PCI recertification demonstrates continued commitment to provide our customers with a comprehensive and compliant Tek+Detect and Tek+Store retail/Point-of-Sale solutions that address the ever evolving security threats in today's complex IT environment," added Mike Yager, Managing Director, TekSecure Labs.

Advantest Test Handler

Advantest Corporation , the world's leading supplier of semiconductor test equipment, today announced its new M7522 dynamic test handler. The unit offers the industry's highest processing speed and positioning accuracy for fine-pitch tape automated bonding (TAB) and chip-on-film (COF) package devices used in liquid crystal display (LCD) panel ICs. The M7522 dynamic test handler will be available from August 2008 and, alongside the T6373 LCD driver test system, will be displayed as part of the company's LCD Driver IC Test Solution at the "Advantest Tour de Force 2008" exhibition to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, June 3-5.

Rising demand and increased competition in the LCD market
Advancements in technology and changes in semiconductor industry business models are contributing to the continuing fall in price of LCD panels used in flat-screen televisions and computer monitors. Conversely, increasing demand for higher-definition capabilities is driving the need for higher-pin-count devices, which are more costly to produce. With the LCD market expected to expand in the coming years, not only in industrialized countries, but also in developing nations, it is predicted that growth in the flat-panel television market will be particularly strong, with demand surpassing 100 million units in 2009 and 150 million units in 2012. Because of this, worldwide shipments of the driver ICs that these LCD panels rely on are also expected to increase. However, as demonstrated by the drop in price of flat-screen televisions, competition between manufacturers has become increasingly fierce, making yield improvement and test processing speed major issues for high-volume manufacturers of LCD driver ICs. With its enhanced handling capabilities, Advantest's M7522 dynamic test handler addresses such issues.

SourceLabs Self-Support Suite

Technology for Better Open Source Support
SourceLabs is dedicated to helping Linux and Open Source developers and administrators make the most of their Linux and Open Source software by developing products and services to help better support and manage Open Source software.

SourceLabs expanding roster of solutions and services includes:

The Self-Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java helps you Discover, Identify and Solve faults, crashes, defects and other key system

The SourceLabs Continuous Support System (CS2) is a proactive and more effective technology for 24x7 Enterprise Open Source Java support

The Open Source Management System (OSMS) The Open Source Management System has helped SourceLabs customers solve challenges related to acquiring, deploying, and supporting Open Source Software - View Datasheet (PDF)

Sash 2 - Java Development Stack - SourceLabs delivers a dependable, cost effective, integrated platform for building, testing and deploying Java-based SOA applications which includes Spring, Hibernate, Axis, Struts , Tomcat and over 40+ dependencies. View Datasheet (PDF)


SourceLabs Continuous Support Solution for Java Middleware
Mission-Critical Support Services for the Most Demanding Enterprises


SourceLabs Continuous Support Solution provides a dramatically more responsive and effective service than conventional software support, maintenance, and upgrade policies. This makes it ideal for enterprise IT organizations using Open Source Java middleware for demanding, high availability production applications.
SourceLabs Continuous Support Solution includes unique proactive support services, including daily triage and notification services that alert customers to potential vulnerabilities. Notification feeds that customers can receive include: subscription from SourceLabs, and includes the Continuous Support System, 7x24 production support contracts, and the SASH Stack for Java, SourceLabs' stress-tested Java middleware distribution which is comprised of the leading open source Java projects in use by large enterprises today.

SourceLabs Continuous Support Solution is available as a

Security Daily Digest Scans newsgroups, forums and mailing lists for potential security vulnerabilities
Issues Daily Digest Scans newsgroups and mailing lists for potential software defects or compatibility issues
Code Daily Digest Logs project activity, filtering for notable code check-ins
SourceLabs support engineers undertake a daily triage process to proactively address issues that might affect customer systems. The triage process uses the information contained in these information feeds to assess software issues, including potential security threats, and determines an appropriate course of action for all issues discovered. The resulting triage report is provided each day to SourceLabs customers.

SourceLabs Continuous Support technology includes adaptive diagnostic monitoring probes and automated issue acquisition tools that continuously extract information from Open Source information sources such as mailing lists, bug databases and user forums. The technology uses proprietary signature matching algorithms to search a correlated data base of hundreds of thousands of issue and failure signatures to speed time to repair.

CONTACT SourceLabs to get started with our Continuous Support Solution.

SourceLabs

SourceLabs is innovating open source software support. The Seattle-based company provides a complete set of software integration, testing, support and maintenance solutions The company's dependable Open Source Systems vision proposes a new model for the software industry, one that frees software buyers from proprietary lock-in while delivering highly reliable software and support. For more information, please go to http://www.sourcelabs.com/. The company runs the open source Swik project that catalogs over 10,000 open source projects for an audience of over 1 million unique visitors per month.

Gomez Updates Reality Load XF

Gomez, Inc., a provider of web experience management services, today introduced an updated version of its self-service load testing solution, Reality Load XF. Part of the Gomez(R) ExperienceFirst(SM) platform, Reality Load XF combines traditional high volume web application load testing with broad geographic end-user experience testing, generating real-world, browser-driven traffic from a global network of over 40,000 locations. An on-demand, software-as-a-service solution, Reality Load XF addresses the performance challenges of today's composite and browser-based rich Internet technologies, such as Ajax, and extends beyond traditional load testing services to reveal the impact of load on the end-user's experience.

"Businesses today are challenged to deliver increasingly complex applications and struggle to use best practice approaches to load test across all application and infrastructure changes," said Gartner, Inc. analyst Thomas E. Murphy. "Solutions that are flexible and provide a more realistic and cost-effective analysis of the end-user's actual web experience will be a valuable addition to current approaches."

For quality assurance teams, Reality Load XF augments existing internal load testing with the end-user perspective, helping to determine system capacity and address end-user experience issues before launching or changing web applications, or investing in infrastructure upgrades or third party services such as content delivery networks. For IT operations, Reality Load XF helps to quickly identify weaknesses or break points in end-user experience under real-world load conditions prior to seasonal promotions, new product introductions, or entry into new markets. Most tests can be up and running after an hour and users can view the results live in near real-time.

"At EveryScape, delivering a quality online experience is a must in our market today," said Mok Oh, founder & CTO of EveryScape, Inc., which provides an interactive visual platform for local search by creating virtual experiences of metropolitan, suburban and rural areas. "Even in the current Internet age, risk is always introduced whenever we make changes to our product or infrastructure, or are in situations where increased traffic is expected. Being able to use Reality Load XF on-demand whenever we feel the need to assess the potential impact on our users' experiences has been a great confidence booster."

"Today's composite web applications are assembled in the end-user's browser. So many elements -- from browser, platform and device type, to third party content, connection speed and ISP -- can affect performance," said Imad Mouline, Gomez's chief technology officer. "Reality Load XF provides e-commerce, IT and quality assurance teams with confidence when deploying applications and infrastructure."

Load Testing Tools

Apache JMeter
Load testing and performance menasurement tool.
ApacheBench
Benchmarking and regression tool.
Avalanche
Network load and stress testing tool for web applications
Curl Loader
Open-Source Load-testing tool written in C.
e-Load
Load testing tool
eValid LoadTest
Performance test tool for dynamic testing, content validation and capacity analysis.
FORECAST
Load testing tool for web applications, networks, client server and database systems.
Funkload
Load, stress and functional testing tool for web applications.
Hammerhead
Open-Source Load-testing tool
httperf
Load testing service for web applications.
http-load
Load Testing tool for generating web server loads.
IBM Rational Performance Tester
Performance testing tool.
JBlitz
Performance and load testing tool.
JCrawler
Open-Source Load-testing tool
LoadDriver
Load testing tool
Loadea
Stress testing tool.
LoadManager
Performance testing tool with load, stress and stability capability
Loadrunner
Load and stress testing tool for web applications
Microsoft WCAT load test tool
Load testing tool from IIS servers
NeoLoad
Load testing tool for web applications
NetworkTester
Network load and stress testing tool for web applications
OpenLoad
Load-testing tool.
OpenSTA
Load and stress testing tool for web applications
OpNet LoadScaler
Load testing tool
Proxy Sniffer
Load and stress testing tool.
PureLoad
Performance testing and analysis tool.
Pylot
Open-Source Load-testing tool
QA Center Performance Edition
Load and stress testing tool for web applications
QEngine Web Performance Testing
Performance and load testing tool.
QTest
Load testing tool for web applications
Radview's WebLoad
Load testing tool.
RealityLoad XF On Demand Load Testing
On-demand load testing service
Siege
Stress and regression test benchmark utility.
SilkPerformer
Load testing tool.
SiteStress
Load testing service for web applications.
SiteTester1
Load testing tool
StressTester
Enterprise load and performance test tool
Test Complete Enterprise
Load testing capabilities.
Test Perspective Load Test
Load testing service for web applications.
Testing Master
Load testing tool
TestMaker
Performance, scalability and functional testing tool.
The Grinder
Load testing tool based on Java
Torture
Stability, web server speed and reliability script.
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition
Web application testing tool set.
vPerformer
Performance and load testing tool.
WAPT
Load testing service for web applications.
Web Polygraph
Benchmarking tool.
WebPartner Test and Performance Center
Load and stress testing tool.
WebPerformance Load Tester
Load testing tool for web applications
WebServer Stress Tool
Load testing tool for web applications
WebSpray
Load testing tool.
webStress
Stress and load testing service.
WebSuite
Load and stress testing tool.

Dextrys Offshores QA of ChangeAuditor

Dextrys, a US-based China outsourcing firm delivering Product Engineering and Application Services, is to take on quality assurance for the next release of NetPro's flagship ChangeAuditor software. Dextrys is "Making China Easy(SM)" for NetPro, the leading provider of Windows network management tools, by leveraging its software development expertise and efficiently extending NetPro's product development capabilities to accelerate release delivery.

NetPro's experience reflects what dozens of independent software vendors (ISVs) have found: Dextrys' software engineering teams ramp quickly and deliver high quality development and testing support, enabling resource-constrained projects to be completed on time and within budget while exceeding customer expectations.

"We selected Dextrys because they know what it takes to partner with ISVs. They have extensive experience in product engineering and global outsourcing, and have excellent project management and process disciplines," said Mark Armstrong, CTO of Phoenix-based NetPro. "The bottom line impact is that Dextrys is helping us get high quality product to market more quickly."

Dextrys provides a host of flexible ISV-oriented services delivered from its development centers across China with project oversight from its US consulting front-end. The Dextrys QA team was able to quickly mirror NetPro's test environment processes, test pre-release code across multiple environments, and build a project team to ensure continuous, predictable, and uninterrupted support.

"We are pleased to partner with NetPro as they seek to strengthen their market leadership position," said Brian Keane, CEO of Dextrys. "By leveraging Dextrys' product engineering capabilities in China, NetPro is now able to deliver new product to market rapidly and cost effectively."

Dextrys' product engineering services for software product companies encompass multiple product lifecycle management needs, including: product development, QA and testing, product modernization, localization, version validation, and ongoing product support. These services help ISVs accelerate revenue opportunities, enhance customer satisfaction, and control product engineering expenditures. Dextrys' customers include many of the world's top software product and hardware companies as well as several leading financial services and insurance firms.

LogicVision Dragonfly Test Platform Launched

LogicVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGVN) , a provider of semiconductor built-in-self-test (BIST) and diagnostic solutions, today announced that it is introducing Dragonfly Test Platform(TM), the next generation of its test and diagnostic solutions. The new platform represents LogicVision's most advanced and comprehensive product portfolio. The Dragonfly Test Platform delivers the industry's most effective combination of test quality of results, ease-of-adoption, and test cost reductions specifically targeted for 65nm and 45nm system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Dragonfly also delivers new silicon diagnostics and characterization capabilities that accelerate yield ramps and enable same-day turnaround of silicon from the fab to known-good first sample shipments. The Dragonfly Test Platform will be showcased at the Design Automation Conference being held in Anaheim, California, June 9th through 12th.

"The IC market is under intense profit pressures, resulting in an increased emphasis on reducing all cost components. Reduction in cost per function is driving higher gate density, driving the growth of 65nm and 45nm design starts," said James T. Healy, President and CEO of LogicVision. "The new Dragonfly Test Platform will provide our customers with the key test, silicon bring-up and yield-ramp capabilities they need to meet rapidly increasing cost, quality, and schedule pressures."

Coverity in Codefast Acquisition

Coverity(TM), Inc., a vendor of solutions for improving software quality and security in C/C++ and Java, today announced the acquisition of Codefast. Coverity's first acquisition provides the company with engineering talent and advanced technology from Codefast to help developers understand and accelerate the software build process. The product acquired from Codefast will be enhanced to take advantage of Coverity's patented Software DNA Map(TM) analysis system, further expanding the company's platform of products that enable software development teams to ensure the integrity of their code. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

"Many development organizations today struggle with build management and build optimization, leaving a significant opportunity for innovation from Application Lifecycle Management vendors," said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of Voke, a technology analyst firm. "This is an excellent acquisition for Coverity. It gives the company a strong product offering in an emerging ALM segment that is a natural complement to Coverity's existing strengths in static and dynamic analysis."
In February 2008, Coverity accepted its first round of outside funding following 5 consecutive years of cash flow positive growth during which time the company was successfully bootstrapped by product sales. The $22 Million round from Foundation Capital and Benchmark Capital was accepted to accelerate Coverity's sales and marketing reach, and to expand its product portfolio through acquisition and accelerated internal research and development efforts. The purchase of Codefast is Coverity's first acquisition.

"We dedicated the last 10 years at Codefast developing sophisticated execution engines to enable both incremental and parallel builds. Coverity's Software DNA Map analysis system is the missing piece that will unlock the power of Codefast's technology and open exciting new build efficiencies for developers," said Tom Schultz, former CTO of Code Fast, who is now a Director in the Office of the CTO at Coverity. "The Codefast team is pleased to bring our technology and expertise to Coverity, and we look forward to fundamentally improving the way software is built."

Coverity's experience with over 450 static and dynamic analysis customers was critical in the company's decision to purchase Codefast. Based on customer research, large development teams have an appetite for new tools that can accommodate a variety of build methodologies while improving their overall build processes.

"Build processes today are frequently inconsistent, leading to unpredictable results or costly delays that drag down development teams," said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity. "When combined with our existing static and dynamic analysis products, the addition of Codefast will enable Coverity products to span the coding, testing, building, and integration phases of software development, where many development organizations face considerable challenges."

Lightwave Test Results

Lightwave Logic, Inc., (BULLETIN BOARD: LWLG) (http://www.lightwavelogic.com/), a technology company focused on the development of electro-optic polymer materials for applications in high-speed fiber-optic telecommunications and optical computing, announced today an update on its current testing results.

The testing of the company's material is complex and requires numerous independent measurements necessary for commercialization. These initial tests may be divided into three general categories, including: Solubility (or Material Integration), Stability and Performance (or r33). Although all tests are not yet complete, results in the first two testing categories suggest that the company's material is well-suited for commercialization. Although performance (r33) testing has not yet been re-confirmed, previous test results indicated a 700% improvement over competitive technologies.
Lightwave Logic's Chief Technical Officer, David Eaton, explains, "Although the process has been delayed presumably due to end of year class scheduling, our preliminary results have been extremely positive, and we expect to produce our initial prototype devices in the short-term."

Two years ago the performance (r33) measurements from this material proved to be seven times the performance of the next highest performing competitive material. The company must, however, repeat r33 measurements to complete the proper testing protocol. The company will publish these results as soon as they become available. After completion of all testing and receipt of successful test results, Photon-X will begin fabrication of our initial prototype fiber-optic modulator.

Due to the time of year and university scheduling conflicts, the company has decided to have the final r33 testing conducted by Dr. C.C. Teng (co-inventor of the testing procedure), after which the University of Arizona will be used to confirm the results and complete additional tests to be used in a commercial device. Photon-X, our partner who has been very cooperative in this process, will also aid in the testing.

Dragon Test Platform - Detail

The Dragonfly Test Platform is LogicVision's next generation of fully integrated embedded test solutions for manufacturing test, silicon bring-up and failure analysis of advanced SoC devices. Dragonfly delivers a comprehensive hierarchical BIST infrastructure covering memory, logic, and both regular and high-speed device I/Os. The BIST infrastructure is integrated using an advanced design automation tool flow fully compatible with all major EDA flows. Once in silicon, the BIST capabilities provide the most efficient quality versus test time trade-off of any manufacturing test methodology, enabling the most cost efficient single-digit DPM (defects-per-million) quality levels in the industry. The BIST capabilities can also be coupled with desktop or ATE-based diagnostic tools for accelerated silicon bring-up and failure analysis activities, both key in meeting shrinking product windows.

Efficient Memory BIST
The latest release of ETMemory(TM) within the Dragonfly Test Platform continues to improve an already best-in-class embedded memory test solution, delivering the most efficient memory BIST and self-repair solution in the industry. Depending on test requirements of individual memories, the new solution can implement either a very compact fixed-algorithm BIST engine or a more versatile fully programmable BIST engine. The combined enhancements deliver up to 30% reduction in area overhead. Both engine types support a self-repair option and are fully integrated into all of LogicVision's automated diagnostic and yield analysis solutions. The Dragonfly test platform also includes VHDL language support for memory BIST.

Streamlined Logic BIST
The latest release of ETLogic(TM) within the Dragonfly Test Platform delivers several new enhancements and capabilities aimed at significantly improving ease-of-adoption. These include a new and more efficient RTL rule checking engine for easy adoption by RTL designers; up to 20% area overhead reduction through simplification of scan control logic; and the capability to combine logic BIST with legacy cores that only support traditional scan based testing including support for double-capture at-speed test.

Advanced Diagnostics and Characterization
Silicon Insight(TM)-desktop provides comprehensive at-speed SoC device-level debug and characterization using a PC laptop connected to a device performance board through a USB-to-JTAG cable interface. The latest release of Silicon Insight adds support for GPIB-based bench top equipment, enabling design and test engineers to perform voltage and frequency based characterization from a laptop PC. Silicon Insight now makes it possible to perform full device debug, diagnostics and characterization without the need to access or tie-up expensive automatic test equipment.

On the production floor, Silicon Insight-ATE now adds the option to perform automated production data logging, enabling design teams and their foundry partners to analyze detailed failure and performance data. The production data log can be used with LogicVision's Yield Insight(TM) tool to identify systemic yield limiting issues and help accelerate product yield ramps.

Ascom Cisco Certification

Ascom Wireless Solutions announces today that the Ascom IP-DECT System is approved as a Solutions Incentive Program (SIP) verified solution with the Cisco Unified Communication Manager. This strengthens Ascom's and Cisco's cooperation and assures wider interoperability of their mutual systems.

Ascom's IP-DECT System became SIP Verified with Cisco Unified Communication Manager, version 6.1 (CUCM v6.1) in April 2008. The SIP testing, which demands a 100% pass rate, took place at tekVizion Labs - a third-party testing house in Texas, USA. This SIP verification means that CUCM 6.1 users can now integrate Ascom's IP-DECT System and scale it to their user base - from 10 to 100,000.

Staffan Ornbratt, Senior Marketing Manager at Ascom Wireless Solutions explains: "This SIP verification is a reciprocal guarantee that our IP-DECT system functions with Cisco CUCM v6.1. This gives the CUCM v6.1 user the ability to not only integrate IP-DECT functionality but also to scale it to match their DECT needs now and in the future."

Furthermore, Cisco has approved Ascom Wireless Solutions as a partner within the Cisco Industry Solutions Partner Network (ISPN) Manufacturing Program. Ascom is already a member in Cisco's ISPN Healthcare program. These Cisco Solution Partnerships synergise Ascom and Cisco in their expertise to create industry-specific networking solutions.
"With these partnerships, we can give our customers a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts," says Ornbratt. "Synergising Cisco network applications with Ascom's professional messaging portfolio lets us pinpoint a broad technological solution to a specific industry need. Collaborations like this will be increasingly important in the future."

In addition to the recent SIP verification and ISPN membership, Ascom's Unite is a Cisco Technology Development Partner (CTDP) and Ascom i75 VoWiFi handset is SIP Verified and verified as a Cisco Compatible eXtension (CCX). These additional programs help Ascom to grow its interoperability on the world communication stage. With each new verification and each new membership in a Cisco ISPN, Ascom makes it easier for customers to gain operability across a wider range of systems.

Hemostasis Testing

Hemostasis testing is used to identify platelet disorders and diagnose bleeding problems. The tests include quantitative and functional methodologies.2 Common endpoints for platelet function testing include time to clot formation and time to cessation of bleeding. End values in some functional testing (e.g., bleeding time, prothrombin time) may be subject to variability based on alterations in the way tests are performed.3

MIPS Technologies Company Publicity

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS) is the world's second largest semiconductor design IP company and the number one analog IP company worldwide. With more than 250 customers around the globe, MIPS Technologies is the only company that provides a combined portfolio of processors, analog IP and software tools for the embedded market. The company powers some of the world's most popular products for the digital entertainment, home networking, wireless, and portable media markets-including broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and digital consumer devices from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in Mountain View, California

Advantest Dynamic Test Handler

Advantest Corporation today announced its new M6242 dynamic test handler, boasting the industry's highest throughput of 42,200 units per hour for high-volume production test of memory devices such as DRAM. The handler will be available from May 2008 and will also be on display at the "Advantest Tour de Force 2008" exhibition to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, June 3-5.

Pricing Pressure on DRAM Memory Devices Heightens
General-purpose DRAM is being used not only as the main memory in computers, but also for the storage of digital information in electronic products such as flat-screen televisions and mobile phones. It is expected that demand will continue to rise sharply as new consumer-driven market populations expand. Along with this growing demand, however, falling computer and consumer electronics prices are leading to increased pricing pressures for manufacturers of memory devices, and creating a very competitive environment. To combat this trend, DRAM manufacturers have long been pressing for a test solution that cuts the cost of test for high-volume DRAM production, and Advantest's new M6242 dynamic test handler addresses this need.

T2000

Advantest's T2000 test system is designed specifically to test complex processors, consumer and other SoC devices, and is used by chipmakers worldwide for testing GPUs, CPUs and other sophisticated products. The T2000 is easily configurable for testing microcontrollers, microprocessors, RF and mixed-signal devices, thanks to an expanding menu of test modules enabling unprecedented customization of test capabilities with unmatched support for parallel testing. These features make the T2000 an ideal test system for IDMs, fabless companies, sub-cons and foundries, who require a flexible platform with interchangeable modules that are easily adapted to changing device requirements

Advantest Mixed-Signal Test

Advantest Corporation , the world's leading supplier of semiconductor test equipment, today announced availability of its new T7723 mixed-signal test system. Ideally suited for the growing high-density automotive device market, the system's high-throughput and highly-parallel test capabilities afford customers significant reductions in test times. The T7723 mixed-signal test system will be available from June 2008 and will also be on display at the "Advantest Tour de Force 2008" exhibition to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, June 3-5.

Increasing Demand for High-Density Automotive Devices

The proliferation of battery powered systems, along with the increasing role of electronics in automobiles, are driving the growth of more complex, next-generation analog devices that offer more advanced functions, greater accuracy, and higher power. With an emphasis on vehicles built for safety, comfort and reduced impact on the environment, today's automobile manufacturers are relying heavily on the use of computerized control systems, and increasing numbers of electronic control units (ECUs) are being installed on board. ECUs incorporate a variety of semiconductors, including controller chips and power devices, and are requiring the number of chips in each vehicle to rise sharply. The market for these devices is predicted to reach 21 billion dollars by the year 2010, as demand for increasingly sophisticated automotive semiconductors escalates.
Yet despite the increased functionality and capabilities of these new devices, the market remains competitive and manufacturers are under continual pressure to reduce costs, particularly, the cost of test. http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.bold.gifAdvantest's T7723, answers this call by offering a cost-effective production test solution for these new, high-power, high-density, mixed-signal devices, The T7723's scalable architecture and an all-in-one test head capable of high-speed, high-accuracy and parallel testing of up to 32 devices, contribute to an improvement in throughput for mass production.

Supports full parallel test of multi-pin devices and reduces test time by 30%

The T7723 has double the test resources of its predecessor, owing to the incorporation of Advantest's newly-developed floating high-power DC in the system's DC test unit*(1). It also boasts a 30A high-voltage test capability -- 1.5 times greater than that of the company's earlier model. In addition, up to 64 relay circuits can be integrated within the test unit, enabling the system to direct and measure electrical current more efficiently, further enhancing its capabilities for multi-pin device test. With these new mechanisms, the T7723 can perform simultaneous test of high-density, high-voltage devices that incorporate BCD process technology*(2) used in power management in vehicles, resulting in a reduction in test time of up to 30%.

Expanded Performance Board Mount Space Facilitates Parallelism

As semiconductor reliability in automotive applications is critical, it is essential that testing be carried out in real life environments. As such, customers load the performance board of the test head with peripheral circuitry as well as the devices under test. In comparison with the previous model, the T7723 offers 1.8 times more space for loading these peripheral circuits. In addition, the relays that were formerly attached to the performance board are now housed within the tester itself, in the floating high-power DC unit. Such features ensure that the area of the test head devoted to device test is maximized, enabling enhanced levels of parallelism and thus a significant reduction in the cost of test.

Advantest Publicity Text

Advantest Corporation is the world's leading automatic test equipment supplier to the semiconductor industry, and also produces electronic and optoelectronic instruments and systems. A global company, Advantest has long offered total ATE solutions, and serves the industry in every component of semiconductor test: tester, handler, mechanical and electrical interfaces, and software. Its logic, memory, mixed-signal and RF testers and device handlers are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor production lines in the world. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest established its first subsidiary in 1982, in the USA, and now has subsidiaries worldwide. Among them, Advantest America, Inc. is based in Santa Clara, CA, and Advantest (Europe) GmbH is based in Munich, Germany. More information is available at www.advantest.com .

ONYX Graphics Certification

ONYX Graphics Inc., a leader in wide format digital printing solutions, today announced that ONYX(R) workflow software products can be used to produce press proof output that complies with G7(R) Certification Level 1 standards. G7 is a proof-to-print process based on a set of color criteria developed to ensure digital print technology elements -- RIP, printer, media and ink -- can reproduce a typical offset lithography sheet. Certification ensures users can confidently use digital press proofs with the assurance of matching Standard Web Offset Printing (SWOP(R)) criteria.

The certification was awarded to ONYX ProductionHouse(TM) software driving the Epson Stylus(R) Pro 11880 printer with Epson(R) Premium Luster Photo Paper 260g and Epson Ultrachrome(R) Ink. The certification standards measure color reproduction through the use of International Color Consortium(R) (ICC) color matching profiles for primary and secondary colors and specific grey values. The ICC profile created in ONYX Profile Generator -- a key element available only in ONYX ProductionHouse software -- exceeded all testing standards and achieved a certification category of GRACoL(R) Grade 1, the highest available (to view a copy of the certificate detailing the measured values, visit http://www.onyxgfx.com/).

"This certification reinforces our proof-of-concept that ONYX Profile Generator is a high quality, extremely accurate tool for generating ICC profiles, giving users tremendous confidence that their output will be on-target," said Jon Reese, Director of Marketing for ONYX Graphics, Inc. "Given a similar starting point with paper white point values and ink gamuts, it's feasible that ONYX Profile Generator can create proof-worthy prints using other printer hardware and inks. Users don't have to spend thousands of dollars on a separate color management system when the capability already exists in ONYX ProductionHouse software."

Certification was awarded to this specific combination of ONYX workflow software and Epson hardware, ink and media. The ICC profile that earned certification can be used with any ONYX workflow software product including ONYX ProductionHouse, ONYX PosterShop(R), ONYX RipCenter(TM) and ONYX GamaPrint(TM) software. The ICC profile, as well as the printer driver with the profile, is available on request from ONYX Graphics.

The G7 process specifies a simple calibration method that helps printers reliably achieve a close "visual match" from proof to press. Consistent and accurate proofs can reduce costs, decrease turnaround times and eliminate re-makes of a print job. Commercial printers that employ G7 certified systems can develop internal guidelines for reliable process controls and assure print predictability before going on press. Print buyers can be assured of proof accuracy when working with a G7 certified supplier.

JDSU Expands TestPad

JDSU today announced new features for its FST-2802 TestPad Ethernet test line designed to simplify the installation and maintenance of complex Carrier Ethernet and IP services. The JDSU FST-2802, in use by a majority of global service providers, is a handheld test instrument for service provider field technicians turning up and troubleshooting Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and IP services.

The evolution of complex Carrier Ethernet networks has introduced critical new challenges for meeting next-generation Ethernet service level agreements (SLAs). SLA requirements, combined with the deployment of a number of new Ethernet and service technologies, translate to significant qualification needs during both provisioning and maintenance phases to ensure end customer quality of service (QoS).

"The deployment of high-bandwidth triple-play services over Ethernet networks are driving new test needs, including more simplified features like those found in the FST-2802," said Jim Nerschook, general manager in JDSU's Communications Test and Measurement business segment. "The FST-2802 automation features reduce mean time to repair and simplify Ethernet network testing, which reduces operational expenses for our customers."
The new features for the FST-2802 include:

-- Support for Multiple Source IP address testing;
-- The Network Discovery(TM) feature;
-- A Layer 2 (L2) Transparency Test;
-- FTP test functionality;

CACI Radio Contract Increased,

CACI International Inc (NYSE:CAI) announced today that the U.S. Army has awarded the company an additional ceiling of $97.9 million to support the Army Project Manager, Tactical Radio Communications Systems (PM TRCS). The competitively awarded increase now raises the potential value of the four-year PM TRCS contract to $189.6 million. CACI won the PM TRCS support effort under the Army's Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract vehicle in October 2006. This award represents both new business and the expansion of current tasks, and continues the growth of CACI's business in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR).

The Army's tactical radio communications systems connect warfighters and first responders to each other and to military and government decision-makers. PM TRCS fields more than 150 such systems, providing airborne and ground-based radio communications in support of tactical operations that include battlefield engagements in Iraq.

CACI currently supports the manufacture and testing of systems to ensure specifications and schedules are met and costs are contained. The company also assists the PM TRCS in planning how systems are distributed and deployed, how related supplies are allocated, and how training is developed and scheduled to ensure the highest levels of warfighter readiness.

The new funding significantly expands CACI's existing PM TRCS work. The increase also reflects new business for CACI in support of additional communications. Here, CACI will help the Army use technologies to better sustain radio transmissions during battlefield operations. Where conventional radio signals may fail over difficult terrain or under harsh conditions, this form of communication provides greater success.

Micronas and Certicom

Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC) today announced that Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN), a supplier of application-specific IC system solutions for automotive and consumer electronics, has licensed Certicom's KeyInject(R) solution to secure the high-definition digital content protection (HDCP) cryptographic keys that are embedded into its silicon chips for use in consumer electronics.

HDCP is an industry-standard scheme designed to protect high-definition content during transmission from the source device to a display device, like an HDTV or projector. Cryptographic keys are used to encrypt the content and also authenticate the display device during this process, thereby preventing eavesdropping of high definition media and mid-transmission attacks.
Under HDCP licensing agreements, manufacturers can face substantial fines in the form of liquidated damages if just one key is lost during the manufacturing and assembly process. Companies that do not use an automated system to send keys to outsourced contract factories are vulnerable to human errors that result in key loss or misuse and may trigger licensing violations and direct monetary loss.

To remedy this, semiconductor companies that manufacture devices for consumer electronics are seeking to use secure and automated solutions in their manufacturing process that will protect their licensed keys, even when those keys are outsourced to manufacturing sites globally. To ensure the security of its products, Micronas has chosen Certicom KeyInject to protect their highly valuable HDCP keys during the chip manufacturing process. Micronas needed a solution that not only controlled their keys but also ensured that key inventories are always available to their contract manufacturing plants.

"Knowing the potential penalties for mismanaged or dropped keys, conducting these processes manually is not an option," said Stefan Rossel, Director IT at Micronas. "Certicom's solution is not only ideal as an automated process, but also as a trusted and proven source of dependable security and key management operations."

Certicom's KeyInject system also provides a key management and audit trail so that companies can account for the keys used during manufacturing and also monitor them to detect any irregular usage.

"Using our KeyInject system, Micronas is able to deliver their chip solutions for consumer electronics like high-definition TVs to market much faster," said Brian Neill, Certicom product manager. "Having a major international customer like Micronas validates the importance of using an automated key injection system from a trusted cryptography supplier, especially given the realities of today's world of globally outsourced manufacturing."

LogicVision

LogicVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGVN) , a provider of test and yield learning solutions, will present at The Seventh Annual JMP Securities Research Conference in San Francisco, California. Mr. James T. Healy, LogicVision's president and CEO, and Mr. Bruce M. Jaffe, LogicVision's chief financial officer are scheduled to present on Tuesday, May 20, 2008. During the presentation, management will briefly outline its value proposition as the semiconductor world embraces testing system-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors from the inside and will conduct a conversation with a JMP Securities analyst about the Company's business and business climate.

Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Time: 3:00 P.M. Eastern Time / 12:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the live
presentation
Location: On the web at http://investor.shareholder.com/lgvn/events.cfm
Replay: Available one hour after the presentation ends and accessible
for 90 days.

About LogicVision

LogicVision (NASDAQ:LGVN) provides proprietary technologies for embedded test and yield learning that enable more efficient manufacturing test of complex semiconductors. LogicVision's embedded test solutions allow integrated circuit designers to embed test functionality into a semiconductor design that is used during semiconductor production test and throughout the useful life of the chip. The company's advanced Design for Test (DFT) product line, ETCreate, works together with Silicon Insight applications and Yield Insight to improve profit margins by reducing device field returns and test costs, accelerating silicon bring-up times and shortening both time to market and time to yield. For more information on the company and its products, please visit the LogicVision website at www.logicvision.com.

Coverity Thread Analyzer

Coverity(TM), Inc., the leader in automatically improving software quality and security in C/C++ and Java, today announced the release of Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java. The product is the first dynamic analysis tool for multi-threaded applications that automatically detects concurrency defects that can cause data corruption and application failures. Coverity Thread Analyzer can also be used in concert with Coverity Prevent, the industry-leading static analysis tool, to create a powerful software quality solution that will help developers control the complexity of writing multi-threaded applications.

"The continued growth of multi-core processors has forced development teams to begin creating multi-threaded applications whether they are ready or not," said Michael Monticello, security and risk analyst at Enterprise Management Associates. "To successfully eliminate the concurrency defects inherent to multi-threaded applications, organizations need sophisticated new tools that pinpoint these hard-to-find issues so developers can focus on bringing secure and reliable new products to market."
Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java observes code as it is executed and automatically and predictably identifies race conditions and deadlocks. The product is unique in the field of dynamic analysis because it detects not only problems that will occur in limited testing environments, but also problems that have the potential to occur over extended operations in field environments.

This distinction is particularly important for multi-threaded applications that, due to their complexity, may run without failure for extremely long periods of time before a "perfect storm" of system events triggers a concurrency defect. For example, the North American blackout of 2003 was due to a race condition that occurred after 3 million hours of consecutive system operation.

"We just evaluated Coverity Thread Analyzer on one of our equity trading applications. We were impressed with Thread Analyzer's ability to dynamically identify, with pin-point accuracy, complex concurrency issues in our Java code," said Hidekazu Sugiura, Director, Financial IT Division, Simplex Technology.

Coverity Thread Analyzer is also the first dynamic analysis solution that can reduce the risk inherent in migrating complex, single-threaded code bases to perform effectively in multi-core environments. The product accomplishes this by reporting thread-shared data to users, indicating locations where a locking discipline should be introduced. This allows developers to proactively identify existing and potential concurrency issues, so they can eliminate them before they cause failures in the field.

Coverity Thread Analyzer also combines with Coverity Prevent, the industry-leading static analysis tool to give Java developers a comprehensive analysis solution that offers unmatched capabilities to identify and eliminate concurrency and other critical code defects that can cause slowdowns, failures and crashes. These two Coverity products integrate static and dynamic analysis in a unique, complimentary manner by adopting the strengths of each technique to enhance the other. Specifically, the combined solution accelerates and lowers the overhead associated with dynamic analysis while further improving the accuracy of static analysis through the elimination of false positive results.

Unlike other dynamic analysis products that impose a memory and/or runtime overhead between 10x and 100x on the software systems they analyze, Coverity Thread Analyzer has a low 2x overhead for most programs, enabling the tool to be used in select production environments that include interactive applications and applications with strict timing requirements.
"As the demand for multi-threaded Java applications continues to accelerate, software developers are now faced with the pressure to deliver significantly more complex products, often on the same tight timelines as the single-threaded products that preceded them," said Ben Chelf, chief technology officer at Coverity. "Coverity Thread Analyzer and Coverity Prevent help developers create high quality multi-threaded applications by combining powerful technologies to help them eliminate concurrency defects that are nearly impossible to detect with conventional methods."

IVT

IVT is a world major supplier of Bluetooth software, and a leading supplier of Bluetooth Extended Range (over 500 meters) Cordless Telephony Profile enabled, quad-band GSM phone and PSTN/SIP/UMA access points for Fixed-Mobile Convergence.

National Public Media

National Public Media is the largest representative of media assets in public broadcasting: on television, radio and digital media; locally, nationally and worldwide. It was created in October 2007 when NPR and WGBH acquired National Public Broadcasting, LLC, the company formed in 1997 to represent all the PBS and NPR Member stations in the U.S. Integrating the NPR Sponsorship Division into it, this new organization represents more than 150 weekly hours of NPR programming for Member stations; PBS' "The News Hour," on-air and online; and more than 200 public television and radio stations across the country. That inventory, combined with aggressive Web representation, enables national marketers to take advantage of rapidly-expanding cross-media opportunities that offer a comprehensive underwriting and sponsorship approach to multimedia audiences throughout the United States

ASE Publicity Text

ASE Inc. is one of the world's largest independent provider of integrated circuit ("IC") packaging services and, together with its majority owned subsidiary ASE Test Limited, the world's largest independent provider of IC testing services, including front-end engineering test, wafer probe and final test services. ASE Inc. currently has approximately more than 200 international customers. With advanced technological capabilities and a global presence spanning Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States, ASE Inc. has established a reputation for reliable, high quality products and services.