Gomez and Dollar Thrifty to Co-present a Web Performance Testing Case Study Webinar for SQAForums

“How to Realistically Load Test Web Applications”

LEXINGTON, Mass., — Gomez, Inc. (www.gomez.com), the leader in Web application experience management, is teaming with customer Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (DTG) to deliver a case study-based Webinar that will equip software testing and quality assurance professionals with best practices for identifying and resolving Web performance issues both inside and outside the firewall.

When: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 1pm ET

Presenters: Jim Arrowood, Director of Web Development and Architecture at Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc., and Colin Mason, Web Load Testing Product Manager at Gomez, Inc.

Who Should

Attend: Software testing and quality assurance professionals, e-commerce managers, developers, and performance testing teams

What: Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (DTG) customers are increasingly choosing the Internet as the primary way to rent vehicles from the Dollar Rent A Car and Thrifty Car Rental Web sites. Recently DTG undertook a significant redesign initiative for its two Web sites to optimize customer experience ahead of its busiest summer travel season and used Gomez’s web load and performance testing solution to validate their efforts. Attendees of this hands-on Webinar will see a Gomez product demonstration and learn about the steps DTG took to validate peak performance for all internal and external components including Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), ads, analytics and ecommerce platforms, delivered across the Internet to its customers’ browsers. This complimentary Webinar will cover:

How Dollar Thrifty geared up for their peak summer season.
How a new style of load testing enables organizations to “walk in their customer’s shoes” and find problems before end-users find them.
Best practices for identifying and resolving Web performance issues across the entire Web application delivery chain, inside and outside the firewall.
Testing approaches that don’t require costly hardware or software investments.
How to uncover geographical response time discrepancies that may surface under load.

Why: Traditional behind-the-firewall testing tools are unable to detect performance-impacting issues that happen along the Web application delivery chain, between the data center and the end-user. “Outside-in” Web load and performance testing is the most realistic and accurate way to test how new design initiatives and peak loads will impact response time and availability for end-users. – Gomez, Inc.