HP Ships Performance Center 9.5 -- Visual Studio Magazine

HP Ships Performance Center 9.5

By Michael Desmond
02/24/2009

Hewlett-Packard today announced the release of HP Performance Center 9.5, the company's integrated application test and analysis suite. The product enables dev shops to analyze performance and discover code flaws across the lifecycle of the application.

The new version of Performance Center adds support for granular trend analysis across iterations, a protocol detection feature for automating test operations, and the ability to test Web 2.0 applications based on Adobe's Action Message Format (AMF).

The new features address a changing software development landscape, said Mark Sarbiewski, senior director of products for HP Software and Solutions .

"There's a whole raft of new technologies that have come into play," Sarbiewski said, noting the ascendance of rich Internet application (RIA) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) development. "There's a massive shift to agile from older models, like waterfall. It's created some really interesting new challenges and opportunities, let me put it that way."

Subbu Iyer, also a senior director of products for HP Software and Solutions, said that agile development has placed a premium on "incremental, iterative" testing that allows developers to apply findings from the previous build or sprint. The trending features in HP Performance Center target this area.

"You can now quickly say yesterday's build is really better than today and how does this compare," Iyer said. "You can get not only a competitive picture between builds in an agile environment, you can get comparative pictures between versions of applications."

In addition to the updated suite, HP provides Performance Center 9.5 functionality via a hosted, software as a service (SaaS) offering. HP also offers consulting services and support for the Performance Center suite.

HP Performance Center 9.5 is shipping today. More information is available at the HP Performance Center Web site.

About the Author

Michael Desmond is an editor and writer for 1105 Media's Enterprise Computing Group.

Printable Format

comments powered by Disqus

Featured

VS Code 1.130 Expands Agent Host and Review Tools

Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release advances shared agent sessions, multi-file change review, chat visibility and terminal navigation
Microsoft Agent Framework Makeover: Claws, Loops and Harnesses

Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.
Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the additional token use.
Copilot AI Billing Shock Met with Meters, Caps and Token-Saving Tools

GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- the cost of agentic development.