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Dynatrace to acquire Rookout to deliver code debugging in production environments

Dynatrace

Developers are increasingly responsible for ensuring the quality and security of code throughout the software lifecycle. This can disrupt the users of the running application, slow down the application’s performance, or even crash it altogether. Debugging in production often requires shutting down services.

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The Biggest Performance Testing Obstacles

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Performance testing is a crucial part of the development process, but it is also one of the most overlooked steps in a development cycle. Not many developers are interested in doing rigorous testing on their codes to see how they perform under heavy load.

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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. The post Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality first appeared on Alex Podelko. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too.

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Testing PowerShell Code With Pester — Octopus Deploy

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When you're working with any code, whether it's automation or software code, it should be treated the same way. One of the many things that don't come up as often when you're automating vs when you're building application code is testing. After-all, functions are still functions and variables are still variables.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Organizations can customize quality gate criteria to validate technical service-level objectives (SLOs) and business goals, ensuring early detection and resolution of code deficiencies. Ultimately, quality gates safeguard code viability as it advances through the delivery pipeline. But how do they function in practice?

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 3, Testing stage

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T he testing stage plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of newly built code through the execution of automated test cases. Testing includes integration tests, which assess whether the code functions as intended when interacting with other services and application functionalities.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

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.