How I Became A Consultant

How I Became A Consultant

This is the story of how I became a consultant and started consulting for multiple companies after working for one company for years. CommerceQuest In late 1999, I left Deloitte to join one of the first Mercury services partners. They were building a team focused on...

How I Started Loadtester Incorporated

How I Started Loadtester Incorporated

In 2003, I was in a complete rut with my career. While my employer was always good to me, paid fairly, and had great benefits, I had hit the ceiling of what I could accomplish there. I knew something had to change, but I was confused about what to do about it. The...

The SMC Journal Report

The SMC Journal Report

The SMC Journal is a podcast discussing all things related to performance engineering. The web site is located at: smcjournal.com You can watch it live or see the archived shows on my Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottMooreConsultingLLC It covers news...

Why Tricentis + Neotys Makes Perfect Sense

Why Tricentis + Neotys Makes Perfect Sense

By now you have heard the news that Neotys has been acquired by Tricentis. To those of us in the performance engineering industry, this should come as no surprise. It will be welcome news for larger Enterprise accounts, and especially for those companies who rely...

Automating Custom Desktop Applications With Loadrunner

Automating Custom Desktop Applications With Loadrunner

Start With A Non-Standard Application I had to create a web virtual user script for a desktop application that made REST API calls to a Microsoft IIS web server over HTTP. The company had created a Microsoft C# EXE test harness, which made the calls automatically...

LoadRunner Analysis Tips and Tricks

LoadRunner Analysis Tips and Tricks

This is a classic session from my YouTube channel. I am demonstrating how I use LoadRunner Analysis to pull out the “truth” from the result of a performance test. Even though it is from 2016 and an older version of LoadRunner (version 12.53), I believe it...