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Web And Intranet
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The web is the future - with this platitude, we all agree. The web is new, exciting, and cool. And very, very sloppy.
Cool, yes - tested, no. Today, we're past the Gee Whiz stage; it's more than just throwing up a few pages. It's about money - very big money. When your critical online resources slow or crash, your business or department crashes as well. Your online resources are your business. Often, coolness trumps Total Web Assurance - the screens get all the attention, and the underlying infrastructure is ignored, creating an online resource that does not scale and is unreliable.Pre-ProductionBefore you go live, Argent lets you completely test your soon-to-be-live online resource.
Example
Only Argent has UPPs - Unique Personality Profiles - the ability to perfectly mimic different types of humans. After all, the goal is to make your testing identical to your actual users. So if you're a web site for teenage boys, Argent will go screen-to-screen in milliseconds. If your web site is for brides-to-be, then it will be at the rate these young ladies read the pages - minutes, not milliseconds. If it's an internal intranet then Argent mimics perfectly these adult users as well.
Let's assume your test is for two hours. Over those two hours, Argent slowly increases the load - the number of transactions per minute. (That's the dotted line in the graph.) As this load is increased, Argent records all critical metrics and displays them on a single screen in real time. Instead of masses of undigested raw data, you get a single screen telling you all you need to know. By slowly increasing the load over the test period, the traits of the complete environment are shown - how each critical resource changes.  
Post-ProductionOnce in production your needs are precisely the same as in testing, with one critical difference: the load.In pre-production testing, the load was designed to overwhelm and to deliberately break the nascent online resource. Obviously in production the opposite is true. A unique benefit of Argent is all work done in the pre-production phase is re-used in the production phase. The only change is the load - rather than pumping in 10,000 complete transactions a minute, it's two transactions per minute. So all the time and money invested in the pre-production phase is not wasted. And when the next version or release of the online resource is ready, you already have a complete set of regression tests.
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