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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. It was called Jellly at the time (mid 2015) but it was an early build of what OctoPerf would become. So, we aimed for a “SaaS load testing tool in your browser” approach, barely mentioning JMeter in the beginning.

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Recipes for Performance Testing Single Page Applications in WebPageTest

CSS - Tricks

Selecting DOM elements is a key part of doing all sorts of automated testing, be it for end-to-end testing with Selenium or Cypress or for performance testing with WebPageTest. A way to circumvent this issue is to tell WebPageTest to wait at least a certain duration before stopping the test.

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A long time coming.

Speed Curve

” Tammy, Steve and Cliff at Velocity Conference circa 2015. As a veteran in the performance industry, I’ve spent a large part of my career helping to build performance culture. I’ve known this cast of characters for a while and am humbled that they have brought me onto the team.

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Role of No-code/Low-code testing tools for Modern Agile QA teams

Testsigma

The challenges appear to be inhibiting the effectiveness and adoption of Test Automation. According to Forrester’s State of Agile reports, the percentage of automated test cases is barely growing. In 2015, 49% of respondents communicated they always tested manually. Exploratory Testing in Agile.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Vitaly specializes in front-end development, performance optimization, and responsive design, and he has made an epic contribution to the performance industry in addition to many other technology and design-related spaces. Patrick Hamann. Patrick Hamann. Scott Jehl. Scott Jehl.

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What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App?

Alex Russell

These criteria have been designed to ensure that sites which invoke prompts are reliable, fast, and engaging. In January 2015 I designed the criteria that Chrome uses to trigger “Add to Homescreen” prompts. Responsive Design can reduce the time and effort required to achieve this. I’d know.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.