When should we performance test?
It’s never too early (or too late) to performance test. If you’re already in firefighting mode, Altentee will help get you back within expected levels of performance. If you’re about to complete a major development activity, Altentee can verify application performance is where it was intended to be. If [...]

Formed in 2009 by its founders Nick Singh and Tim Koopmans, Altentee’s mission is to deliver affordable and reliable performance and test automation alternatives to more traditional solutions.

Our goal is to deliver high quality, timely solutions for your performance and test automation requirements whilst remaining affordable for any size organisation. Pay [...]

Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible.

Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text [...]

Altentee is proud to support website load testing using real browsers through BrowserMob.

BrowserMob’s mission is to provide innovative and cutting edge load
testing and website monitoring services for anyone who builds,
tests or operates modern websites. Our products leverage the power of
cloud computing and open source software to keep sites as nimble and
robust as [...]

Altentee uses the award winning open source version of Hyperic HQ to monitor your system under test. With a fully hosted solution available, Altentee can setup and provide ongoing monitoring and alerting of your production systems. With Hyperic HQ you can view and analyze metric data for servers, services, devices or any individual resource, [...]

Altentee proudly supports the following open source products which cater for the majority of performance & test automation requirements.

Hyperic HQ for systems monitoring and alerting
BrowserMob with Selenium for real-browser load testing
Watir for browser automation
JMeter or OpenSTA for protocol level load testing

Altentee consultants also have a wide background and experience in the use of closed source [...]

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Altentee offers an alternative approach to expensive mainstream commercial products and methods by using open source tools and experienced professionals without compromising on quality for performance and test automation activities.

Altentee can deliver timely performance [...]

Altentee will choose from a range of reliable and affordable open source alternatives to meet your performance and test automation needs. For performance testing we typically use JMeter, OpenSTA or the Grinder to facilitate a variety of test types including baseline, load, stress, soak and component tuning scenarios. For automation we use Selenium, Watir, AuotIt [...]

Despite high profile failure of critical business systems, performance and test automation is often neglected.  “Flights delayed as airline switches systems” or “Software glitch halts trading” still frequent news headlines.

Most companies do not invest in performance and test automation primarily because of the exorbitant costs involved.

Expensive licensing options, costly annual maintenance fees [...]