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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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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. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. How did you get into performance engineering? As most things in life, by chance. What OctoPerf adds to basic JMeter?

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

At Dynatrace’s annual user conference, Perform Las Vegas 2020 , Neotys and Panera Bread joined me in a breakout talk called “ Increase quality and agility with load & performance engineering as a self-service ”. Here is the definition of this model: ?. 1 Performance-as-a-self-service at Pay P al .

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How to boost SRE productivity with observability-driven DevOps

Dynatrace

Dynatrace uses several built-in version detection strategies such as automatically reading environmental variables and Kubernetes labels. Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain. The collected set of metrics are queries for some timeframe.

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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. I rarely have to use it, but it is definitively useful to know that it exists. The many ways of selecting an element.

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ACM Survey, Part 2: How your peers use production monitoring data to innovate faster

Dynatrace

Ideally, QA teams use production data for better test definitions (based on real use cases) and better workload modeling for load testing (based on real-world load behavior). Organizations that don’t look at production data may test the wrong things and simulate the wrong performance tests.

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How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

As a part of the mobile website testing strategy, your team tests the website from different perspectives on varied mobile screen resolutions. This can only be realized by performing thorough mobile website testing on devices widely used by your target customer segment. Speed and Accuracy.

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