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The Role of Recording in Load Testing Tools

Alex Podelko

An interesting discussion started around a very good post Open Source Load Testing Tool Review by Ragnar Lönn. We may see it from a large number of load testing tools that doesn’t offer much other options. Of course, in addition to parameterization of objects names – as new objects are created in the process.

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Oracle Applications Testing Suite (OATS) entered sustainability mode stage. Well, yes and no. Open Source.

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Master Apache JMeter. From Load Testing to DevOps

Alex Podelko

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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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

This is the mainstream approach to load testing: recording communication between two tiers of the system and playing back the automatically created script (usually, of course, after proper correlation and parameterization). Other variations of this approach are web services scripting or use of unit testing scripts for load testing.

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How to automate your web testing on real mobile and desktop browsers

Testsigma

They require internet connectivity and a browser to run on. We achieve this by performing web testing on mobile and desktop browser programs. . billion active internet users worldwide – 59.5 billion active internet users worldwide – 59.5 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices.” percent (4.32

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Follow up on the Test Automation Discussion – Bringing in the Performance View

Alex Podelko

I, of course, am looking from a somewhat different – performance – point of view, so not going to jump into details of the discussion too deeply. We, of course, have a lot of consultants who specialize on setting agile / DevOps / Continuous Integration / etc. or there is no API to talk about at all.

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KeyCDN Launches IPv6 Support

KeyCDN

That’s why the Internet is currently in a transition period of migrating from IPv4 to the newest version of the Internet Protocol: IPv6. This new version of the Internet protocol has been automatically added to all Zones. IPv6 was first defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1996 in RFC 1883.