A political revolution

The primary claim to data gathering, determining what data is in the first place, what the status of information is, and how knowledge is to be made operational, is no longer wed to universities and academic institutions. Neither is its output: essay, report, document – the sole format through which broadly shared notions on what … Read more

A mental revolution

Artists have always exploited the conditions for technological change, applications and services, from the pencil onwards. In the move towards ubiquitous computing – from the Internet to the ‘Internet of Things’ – the poetic process of making meaning and creating experiences is no longer only productive at the level of design, but it lies at … Read more

A global revolution

In Carl Schmitt’s political philosophy he makes a distinction between the real enemy and the absolute enemy. This latter enemy is the one that negates your own position, questions your very existence. The real enemy denotes our possibility to act, we can react to challenges and threats. The absolute enemy appears on thresholds to new … Read more

IoT research and technological development in Europe

The debate about Internet of Things in Europe rose at a time when the structure of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) was already established. It is obvious that the holistic approach adopted by the “Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)” unit (DG INFSO/D4) in its initiatives, especially the Communication of June 2009 and … Read more

Development of the Internet of Things

Today, there are roughly 1.5 billion Internet-enabled PCs and over 1 billion Internet-enabled cell phones. The present “Internet of PCs” will move towards an “Internet of Things” in which 50 to 100 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Some projections indicate that in the same year, the number of mobile machine … Read more

Stress testing tools

Normally all the performance testing tools that are used for load testing could also be used for stress testing. Below mentioned are the ones that are most commonly used: 1. Loadrunner Loadrunner from HP is the widely used tool to perform stress testing and the results provided by Loadrunner are considered as a benchmark. 2. … Read more

Types of Stress Testing Techniques

1. Distributed Stress Testing In distributed stress testing, all the clients linked with the server are tested. Distribution of a group of stress tests to each one of the clients and follow up on their status, is the server’s role and responsibility. 2. Transactional Stress Testing As the name suggests, Transactional Stress Testing is used … Read more

Importance of Stress Testing

Stress testing tries to break the system under test by overwhelming its resources. The main purpose of stress testing: Make sure that the system fails and recovers easily, this quality is also known as recoverability. Stress Testing Example Let us assume that the performance testing team has been asked to stress test an ecommerce application that sells Camping Gears. In … Read more