Using Linux Control Groups to Constrain Process Memory
Linux Control Groups (cgroups) are a nifty way to limit the amount of resource, such as CPU, memory, or IO throughput, that a process or group »
BI Forum 2015 Preview -- OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack
I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta »
Visual Regression Testing of OBIEE with PhantomCSS
Earlier this year I wrote a couple of blogs posts (here and here) discussing the topic of automated Regression Testing and OBIEE. One of the points »
Built-In OBIEE Load Testing with nqcmd
nqcmd ships with all installations of OBIEE and includes some very useful hidden functionality - the ability to generate load tests against OBIEE. There are lots »
Introducing obi-metrics-agent - an Open-Source OBIEE Metrics Collector
Understanding what is going on inside OBIEE is important for being able to diagnose issues that arise, monitor its health, and dig deep into its behaviour »
Automated Regression Testing for OBIEE
In the first article of this series I explored what regression testing is, why it matters, and by breaking down the OBIEE stack into its constituent »
OBIEE Regression Testing - An Introduction
In this article I’m going to look at ways to test changes that you make to OBIEE to ensure that they don’t break existing »
Testing aggregate navigation on OBIEE and Exalytics
One of OBIEE’s many great strengths is aggregate navigation; the ability to choose from a list of possible tables the one which will probably give »
Advanced Presentation Services settings for OBIEE testing & development
As John Minkjan pointed out a while ago, the XSD (XML Schema) for the OBIEE configuration files can yield some interesting things. I've been looking at »