Multi-step Monitoring

TRANSACTION MONITORING VIA WATCHMOUSE'S GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Transaction Monitoring (also referred to as 'scripting' or 'web application testing') checks the behaviour of your site and identifies exactly where bottle necks or problems occur. Transaction Monitoring ensures you know how your customers experience your site when they interact with it from different locations.

Transaction monitoring scripts can be written to identify a wide variety of possible issues, from slow page response times, to monitoring the behaviour of forms such as login pages and shopping carts. Transaction monitoring scripts should be run from a global infrastructure. Without using a worldwide network of checkpoints, you cannot accurately predict how your site behaves when customers interact with it from locations all around the world.

WatchMouse enables you to easily upload your transaction monitoring scripts and run them using our global infrastructure of 25+ checkpoints. WatchMouse has also partnered with Badboy Software to provide customers with access to a free* scripting tool.

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News

BadBoy Software updates scripting recorder to improve WatchMouse's Functional testing service (2009-01-07)

The WatchMouse Functional testing service allows you to define multi-step tests through a website and replay them periodically from the WatchMouse monitoring stations. This goes beyond just monitoring site performance and uptime, it allows you to verify that your web applications and back end systems really work.
More information on this service can be found on the Transaction Monitoring & Web Application Testing page.

In a co-operation with BadBoy software, who provide a tailored version of their recoder software which allows you to upload the resulting script directly into your WatchMouse dashboard.

Feedback from our "Functional testing" customers has lead to several essential improvements to the BadBoy recorder. This improved version has now been released and we recommend all our customers to upgrade to this version.
The new - WatchMouse specific - version can be downloaded here: http://www.badboy.com.au/versions/BadboyInstaller-2.0-latest_wm.exe

The most important changes are:

CHANGES IN BADBOY 2.0.7

   #1097: Multipart Forms Incorrectly export Parameters to JMeter Encoded causing Double Encoding

   #1087: Use Follow-Redirect Option in JMeter for More Reliable Export Playback

   #1086: Export Referer and Other Default Headers to JMeter

   #1085: Assertions placed as Children of Requests not Exported to JMeter

CHANGES IN BADBOY 2.0.6.1

   #1075: Security Update (MS08-052 - Critical)

The full release notes can be found here: http://badboy.com.au/versions/ReleaseNotes-2.0.7.txt