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Manual vs. Automated Software Testing

Apica

Software testing is a huge domain, but it can be broadly categorized into two areas: manual testing and automated testing. Both manual and automated testing offer benefits and disadvantages. It’s worth knowing the difference, and when to use one or the other for best results. Automated Testing.

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Improve user experience with more visibility into CDN-related HTTP errors (Part 1) 

Dynatrace

Modern web applications rely heavily on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and 3rd-party integrations (for example, web analytics, tag managers, chat bots, A/B testing tools, ad providers, and more). In Part 1 we’ll dive into: The need to extend synthetic tests to cope with the CDN-error blind spot. Dynatrace news.

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Destructive Testing – How to Tear Apart a System

Testlodge

A central goal of software testing is to find issues, especially critical ones, before they cause a problem in production. This article discusses one measure to prevent these kinds of errors, known as destructive testing. What is Destructive Testing? Next, you test for.bmp and.png file types to make sure they are not accepted.

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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Testing And Monitoring. Google Mobile-Friendly Test. Bulk Mobile Friendly Test by Experte.

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Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

MachMetrics

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. These best practices can make your site faster, but they don’t always.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice. Hat tip to Harry Roberts for this best practice.)