Performance testing with HP Version 9.5

HP has released Version 9.5 of Performance Center, its integrated testing tool set for IT applications. This release of Hewlitt Packard's load and stress testing tool adds a number of new features including:

• granular trend analysis across application development and implementation iterations
• testing functionality for Web 2.0 applications based on Adobe's AMF
• protocol detection for testing operation automation
  

HP have said these are to align the testing product with the changing software development market place. These include Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Rich Internet Applications (RIA). They also emphasised the growing trend to move from traditional application development approaches, such as waterfall, to agile development and testing methods.