Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

An interesting discussion started around a very good post Open Source Load Testing Tool Review by Ragnar Lönn. What I’m looking for primarily is functionality that supports load test automation. But I don’t think the traditional, complex load test scenario is suitable for automation.

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Testing Tools Testing Website Open Source 100

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. Replay Testing Enter replay testing. For us, the replay test tooling gave the confidence that our new code was nearly bug free.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

We’re not picking on Optimizely because of anything they do that’s any worse than any other client-side A/B testing solution (all in all, they do pretty well compared to some of the other options I’ve tested), but because of their popularity in the space means this example is likely very relevant to many folks reading this.

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Testing Google Traffic Servers 137

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Does the tool allow you to import industry-standard formats like Selenium IDE ? Of course, since websites change daily (in some cases) and scripts can stop working, it is also important to evaluate a tool based on its troubleshooting capabilities, such as: Can you test the script? Can you specify the location?

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ). 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140