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		<title>Availability of XLT 4.1.7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Xceptance is announcing the availability of Xceptance LoadTest (XLT) version 4.1.7. This is an update release and includes smaller improvements and defect fixes. The update is recommended for everyone. Improvements Script Developer: Breakpoints can be set at a module call now. They have been moved to the first command of the module before. Runtime Engine: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2012/01/21/availability-of-xlt-4-1-7/</link>
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		<title>XLT 4.1.6 is available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just released Xceptance LoadTest version 4.1.6. This upgrade release delivers small bugfixes and support for Firefox 9. Additionally you can specify an individual temporary download and upload directory for master and agents now. For the first time, you  also get an XLT-AMI for the new US-West Oregon data center of Amazon. All details and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/12/10/xlt-4-1-6-is-available/</link>
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		<title>Read that: Web Application Security Guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a nice summary of web application security related technologies, processes, and development patterns: Design Guidelines for Secure Web Applications. A little .NET heavy, but most stuff is generally applicable. If you read and like the above information, you should not miss the OWASP web security guidelines. This is a must read for every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/12/07/read-that-web-application-security-guidelines/</link>
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		<title>Testing Arabic Web Pages with XLT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, there aren’t only Western character encoded websites on the web. There are also websites in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc., and we wanted to know how XLT would perform if we use it for testing a non-Latin website. Non-Latin does not necessarily mean non-UTF-8, but in this case it especially means non-Western [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/09/28/testing-arabic-web-pages-with-xlt/</link>
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		<title>Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smashing Magazine lists a couple of free and commercial tools to cover cross-browser testing: Good news: very powerful free testing tools are available for Web designers today. Some are more user-friendly than others, and some have significantly better user interfaces. Don’t expect much (if any) support with these tools. But if you’d rather not spend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/08/07/review-of-cross-browser-testing-tools/</link>
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		<title>Firefox 5.0 support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for Firefox 5.0 support when using XLT script developer, you will get it with version 4.1 of XLT. This version is available here.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/07/07/firefox-5-0-support/</link>
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		<title>Get the right load mix out of a few numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When testing ecommerce applications on SaaS environments, you often do not get enough numbers from clients because they simply do not know these numbers or only a few. One reason for that is, that the client simply have not had any only presence before. Often the client also does not have detailed numbers, because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/06/07/get-the-right-load-mix-out-of-a-few-numbers/</link>
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		<title>XLT 4.0.5 Amazon-EC2 AMIs available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are the AMI-IDs of the XLT 4.0.5 images for Amazon-EC2. EU-West: ami-772b1d03 US-East: ami-52649b3b US-West: ami-29bfec6c Images can be used free of charge. The EU image is brand new and features Ubuntu 11.04. It has also a smaller disk of only 8GB compared to 15GB before. This helps to make it eligible for a free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/05/14/xlt-4-0-5-amazon-ec2-amis-available-2/</link>
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		<title>Spurious wakeup &#8211; the rare event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After hunting for quite some for a strange application behavior, I finally found the reason. The Problem The Java application was behaving strangely in 4 out of 10 runs. It did not process all data available and assumed that the data input already ended. The application features several producer-consumer patterns, where one thread offers preprocessed data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/05/06/spurious-wakeup-the-rare-event/</link>
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		<title>XLT 4.0.5 is out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just released Xceptance LoadTest 4.0.5. It is a minor update and recommended for everyone. But you might have special interests if you use the Script Developer heavily. Besides a few defect fixes, release 4.0.5 delivers four great improvements to speed up test case creation and maintenance with Script Developer and make your work more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/05/05/xlt-4-0-5-is-out/</link>
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		<title>Nice reading: CSS3 vs. CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice article about the advantages of CSS3 in terms of coding as well as download speed: CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark. I believe in the power, speed and “update-ability” of CSS3. Not having to load background images as structural enhancements (such as PNGs for rounded corners and gradients) can save time in production (i.e. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/04/21/nice-reading-css3-vs-css/</link>
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		<title>How does Garbage Collection work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just found two nice blog entries by Chaotic Java which explain nicely how Java Garbage Collection works. Might be still too much if you have never dealt with the topic before, but good reading for the others. Parallel and concurrent garbage collectors How does garbage collection work? Enjoy reading.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/04/11/how-does-garbage-collection-work/</link>
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		<title>Load Testing Web Applications &#8211; Do it on the DOM Level!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article was first published in the June 2010 issue of the magazine Testing Experience. HTTP-level tools record HTTP requests on the HTTP protocol level. They usually provide functionality for basic parsing of HTTP responses and building of new HTTP requests. Such tools may also offer parsing and extraction of HTML forms for easier access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/04/07/load-testing-web-applications-do-it-on-the-dom-level-2/</link>
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		<title>Our new company logo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we updated our web site with the new logo of our company and product. We hope you like it. It is modern, unique, and resembles our company colors. The font is distinct and the X is pretty eye-catching, because it has been carefully designed and crafted to express the uniqueness of Xceptance and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/03/18/our-new-company-logo/</link>
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		<title>XLT 4.0.4 is available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we released update 4 of XLT 4.0. You will find all the details about it at the usual place: https://lab.xceptance.de/releases/xlt/4.0.4/. Check out the release notes too. This release addresses minor script developer defects. As always, updates are free for all customers and all people using XLT despite the license.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/03/16/xlt-4-0-4-is-available/</link>
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		<title>The Argument about the Curly Brackets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you talk about code styleguides, you often talk about basic formatting. This means you probably already fought the holy war over the curly brackets {} and where to put them. Of course, the next line is the only right place. A curly bracket is a hermit and does not like to be put next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/03/03/the-argument-about-the-curly-brackets/</link>
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		<title>XLT 4.0.2 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we released a minor update of XLT 4.0. You will find all the details about it at the usual place: https://lab.xceptance.de/releases/xlt/4.0.2/. Check out the release notes too. We mainly fixed some issues around the script recorder, such as start up time and behavior when invisible elements were encountered. An update of the AWS cloud [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/03/02/xlt-4-0-2-released/</link>
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		<title>Free Money in Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A database error caused several ATMs of the Commonwealth Bank to give away money for free in Australia. Read more at ZDNet. There is another short article about that failure in this news. Up to 40 Commonwealth Bank Automatic Teller Machines are spewing cash across NSW just hours after suffering a computer error this morning.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/03/02/free-money-in-australia/</link>
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		<title>XLT &#8211; Garbage Collector details visualized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we want to give you a small preview of an upcoming XLT feature. Most of you probably know that XLT features agent statistics. These statistics help you to keep an eye on the health of the test execution engines (agents) to ensure that you do not influence the test results by providing insufficient hardware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/02/17/xlt-garbage-collector-details-visualized/</link>
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		<title>QA Blog Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve collected a very nice list of QA and testing blogs. 100 + 4 different blogs to take a look at. Check it out: Top 100 Software Testing Blogs.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.xceptance.com/2011/02/07/qa-blog-collection/</link>
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