Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

But, the catch is that most of them are not following a basic guideline – the Definition of Done for a feature should also include testing and automation of the feature. And just that is the reason why we are laying special emphasis on ‘insprint test automation’. In-sprint test automation simplified!

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle. Speed: Users won’t give organizations a pass on slow performance just because they’re trying to enhance security.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 28, 2021

We all know that if we are developing something that runs on the web using browsers then cross-browser testing needs to be done. There is another variation of cross-browser testing – cross-device testing. In this article, we will discuss the scenarios when automating your cross-browser testing would be a good idea.

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Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The traditional testing that was done on the software installed on local servers is now slowly fading away. Cloud-based testing comprises cloud-based test automation as well.

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DZone

APRIL 18, 2019

Software testing is important, period. The iterative, fast-paced Agile enterprises and introduction of DevOps have definitely reduced a software’s time-to-market by churning out releases at a breakneck speed. While that is being tackled to some extent through test automation, the need for human intellect is not entirely removed.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2023

The definition of Percona Advisors by ChatGPT is the following: Percona Advisors can help organizations implement robust security measures to protect their databases and sensitive data. So it is only for debugging and testing purposes. It is partially true. Add this token in the PMM Settings -> Percona Platform section.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Speed and Accuracy.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. This frustration is hardwired, as you can learn in this post about the psychology of site speed and human happiness.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

That’s not truly testing. The above quote lets us understand the power of Manual Testing. However, we cannot always test our mobile applications manually, there are scenarios which specifically require automated mobile application testing. Variations while performing Mobile Application Testing. Let’s find out.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In a reduced test case like this, it’s blindingly obvious that Critical CSS is a wasted effort. We’ve fetched the file asynchronously but had zero impact on performance, because anything synchronous in the is render-blocking by definition. Test everything. before you were ready to go anyway. We’ve achieved nothing.

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Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. Setting up conversion tracking in SpeedCurve RUM is fairly simple and definitely worthwhile. This post covers: What is a conversion?

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

With the increased usage of smartphones in recent years, enterprises and the software industry now have to cater their applications to mobile devices for web testing in addition to desktops. Predominantly, there are two sets of tools that can cater to all your testing requirements when it comes to mobile web testing.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. But if you have not optimized your WordPress properly, your WordPress will definitely be slower than your expectations. One of the most important factors that affect your speed is the server optimization implemented by your web host. Why is WordPress slow?

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

So you need to understand what is going on there – and Debbie is definitely an authority in that area. System Performance Estimation, Evaluation, and Decision (SPEED) by Kingsum Chow, Yingying Wen, Alibaba. Solving the “Need for Speed” in the World of Continuous Integration by Vivek Koul, Mcgraw Hill. by Stefano Doni, Akamas.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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 easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data. > Speed Index (Synthetic).

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Tasktop

AUGUST 18, 2022

Definition of value . Feedback speed . Definition of value. For example, developers might have to wait for another team to provision a testing environment before they can test and complete a feature. . Also, automating certain services, such as the provisioning of testing environments, can help speed things up.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate more processes and testing throughout the software delivery life cycle (SDLC). And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets?

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. OK, not really. What is HTTP Compression?

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Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

With sufficient automated testing, you can have a high level of confidence that an isolated change can be built and integrated without breaking anything else. If any of the automated tests fail, then the build is broken and the change cannot be integrated. So where in a CI/CD pipeline do we put performance testing?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. Image CDN Using a content delivery network like KeyCDN, or what we also call an image CDN , can be one of the easiest and fastest ways to speed up the delivery of your images.

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Tasktop

MAY 13, 2020

The Novel Economy is unique in that it’s true to its definition. Where do you put hand sanitizer, testing kits, and so on? This is really where Tasktop can help as the company plays on both sides, accelerating the ability to create certain products and services at internet speed and scale. What is the “Novel Economy”?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. Today, there's no more reason for not using the next-generation image format WebP and optimizing images all the way through.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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. I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. What load testing tools did you use? What is your business model?

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MachMetrics

JULY 27, 2018

If you run a private WebPageTest instance on Amazon EC2, one of the choices you’ll have to make is whether to use Linux or Windows test agents. But last week I switched over to Linux test agents, and I don’t think I’ll ever go back to Windows – here’s why: 1. Linux Agents are more consistent.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? This diversity adds to the difficulty and complexity of defining and testing typefaces. For a proper test setup you would need to modify one parameter while keeping every other parameter unchanged.

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

We now live in an age when it's possible to stream high definition TV, and yet we are not satisfied. We become annoyed when we run a speed test on our broadband provider only to find that, on a good day, we are getting maybe half of the rated download speed we are paying for, and the upload speed is likely much worse.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 16, 2019

Later in the piece, Mod describes fast software as being the very definition of good software and argues that every action on a computer — whether that’s a website or an app — should feel as if you’re moving without any latency whatsoever. It ought to be un-shippable until the thing is fast.

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