Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. In particular, JMeter has many integrations with other popular tools and a large number of plugins.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. While agile development / DevOps become mainstream nowadays, their integration with performance testing is just making first steps. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. Here is the definition of this model: ?. Performance-as-a-self-service .

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Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The traditional testing that was done on the software installed on local servers is now slowly fading away. Cloud-based testing comprises cloud-based test automation as well.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For example, deploying, testing, validating, and releasing software are shared tasks across teams that differ mainly in the underlying tooling used for executing these tasks. In terms of separation of concerns, the process does not need to “know” the tooling used for execution and vice versa.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 24, 2017

There was a rather heated discussion around A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing by James Bach and Michael Bolton (referred below as the article and the authors – other references would be explicit). and Open letter to “CDT Test Automation” reviewers as well as in many other different places.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Testing, being the part of the software arena, is also advancing to great new heights. From manual testing to record-and-playback tools, then to automation testing and now to codeless test automation, we have traversed a long path. What is codeless test automation ? Codeless test automation tools.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Regression testing is one of the most critical aspects of quality assurance. It goes without saying that adopting effective regression testing strategies can save development teams hundreds of hours of debugging. Before taking up the task of regression testing, the team needs to define the test framework that they plan to use.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We do ‘ Cross Browser Testing ’ to meet the end user expectations across different web browsers. If your application is compatible enough, it will definitely help in obtaining a good business. In this article, we will see how we do cross browser testing in 2 ways: manual browser testing and automated browser testing.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Cross-browser testing is performed to be sure that your product is working as expected on the various device, platform, and browser (and their versions) combinations that your customers might be using. However, the pain and efforts associated can be reduced, if the cross-browser testing is cloud-based. Reference: [link].

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I am sure people at that time had not heard about cross-browser testing. All these changes made one concrete effect on the testing world. They made cross-browser testing essential. What is cross-browser testing? Cross-browser testing is a mantra to be followed by everyone developing a website.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 28, 2021

We all know that if we are developing something that runs on the web using browsers then cross-browser testing needs to be done. There is another variation of cross-browser testing – cross-device testing. In this article, we will discuss the scenarios when automating your cross-browser testing would be a good idea.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Another major trend is using multiple third-party components and services, which may be not easy to properly incorporate into testing. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

First, let me take a moment to thank Klaus Enzenhofer, Technical Product Manager at Dynatrace, who challenged me to make SLI & SLO definition simpler so that it is more appealing to a non-deep technical user base. For that Keptn already offers integrations with JMeter and Neoload with other testing tool integrations in the works.

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Testsigma

MAY 6, 2021

When we are talking about web testing, we mean web applications and website testing in web browsers. We achieve this by performing web testing on mobile and desktop browser programs. . Why use automated testing tools for testing websites? Definitely yes we can! percent of the global population.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). The development team has analyzed and pinpointed the weaknesses in the CSS codebase and has set target goals for the refactor (file size, specificity, color definitions, and so on).

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Automated web testing is not a new concept today. With advancements in web development technologies and how complex web codes are written today, web testing was bound to walk this way sooner or later. Factors affecting ROI in automated web testing. First of all, we need people that can perform automated web testing.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

With the increased usage of smartphones in recent years, enterprises and the software industry now have to cater their applications to mobile devices for web testing in addition to desktops. Predominantly, there are two sets of tools that can cater to all your testing requirements when it comes to mobile web testing.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ This is what this blog is all about.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

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Testsigma

JULY 13, 2021

A few years back, “ codeless testing ” was interchangeably used with the “ record-and-replay ” functionality of the automation software. Today, the advancements in codeless testing have widened the gap between the terms and gave them separate and clear meanings in the IT industry. It depends on the codeless testing tool you are using.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

Many organizations realize their DevOps tools and practices do not sufficiently account for security. The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

That’s not truly testing. The above quote lets us understand the power of Manual Testing. However, we cannot always test our mobile applications manually, there are scenarios which specifically require automated mobile application testing. Variations while performing Mobile Application Testing. Let’s find out.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. This enables true Performance as a Self-Service!

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

This results in cross-browser compatibility issues and testing them out is cross-browser testing. But just like any other testing paradigm, cross-browser testing is full of challenges and we will explore them in this post along with some arrangements that can help smoothen the ride a bit! What is Cross-Browser Testing?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Dynatrace also assists in shifting left via integrations such as JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible, load testing tools, and ITSM products – seamlessly becoming part of their ecosystem too. Chris from BT also went on to speak highly of the book called team topologies – a definite must-read!

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 21, 2018

Set Up Regression Tests. For longer-term refactoring or auditing, it can be useful to set up a formal regression testing tool such as BackstopJS. Ideally, we’d have a regression testing suite in-place permanently, so this is as good a time as any to start. Learn How to Use Parker, ack, and ctags.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So DNS services definitely go down! You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article. Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But if you have not optimized your WordPress properly, your WordPress will definitely be slower than your expectations. Page loading speed test Before conducting any further tests, a website owner must determine at what speed his website loads. Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Total Blocking Time (TBT) is a good proxy for FID when using a testing tool without any direct user interaction, but also keep an eye on Time to Interactive (TTI) when looking at FID. These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Most of the time is taken by quality or release engineers looking at test results, comparing them with previous builds or walking through a checklist of items that accumulated over the years in order to harden their release acceptance process. days and therefore contributing > 90% of the overall Commit Cycle Time! Pitometer is a Node.js

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

How can you test the performance of your users’ flow, when most of it happens client-side and does not have a specific URL to point to? Throughout this article, we are going to find out how to solve these problems (and many more), and you’ll be ready to test the performance of your Single Page Application with WebPageTest!

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. John Mueller answered “YES” to this question in 2019, “site speed is definitely a ranking factor?”.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In software delivery tools, the data of interest exists as objects termed “artifacts”, which are work items like features, stories, tasks, test cases, defects and requirements. They are stored in the tools where the work gets done, like requirements tools, Agile planning tools and testing tools.

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Testsigma

JUNE 2, 2020

There is a need to make automated acceptance tests reviewable for clients or users and the non-technical members of the team like project managers, project managers, etc. Another gap that a BDD framework fulfils is it allows testers to get involved in automated testing without much programming language skills. Introduction to BDD.

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