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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

It doesn’t mean that we don’t need traditional load testing anymore – it means that we need to build up on the top of it to bring more value to the table. 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. I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. What load testing tools did you use?

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

Dynatrace

Here is the definition of this model: ?. To implement performance as a self-service, you’ll need to look at how your organization currently prepares, tests and analyzes performance, including your current testing strategy, tools, monitoring technology, service virtualization, test data management, flow, roles, and skills.

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A guide to event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps

Dynatrace

It’s a free virtual event so I hope you join me. First, let me take a moment to thank Klaus Enzenhofer, Technical Product Manager at Dynatrace, who challenged me to make SLI & SLO definition simpler so that it is more appealing to a non-deep technical user base. Let’s drive this vision forward, together!

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Architectures

Alex Podelko

Another major trend is using multiple third-party components and services, which may be not easy to properly incorporate into testing. The answer to this challenge is service virtualization, which allows simulating real services during testing without actual access. Traditionally monitoring was on the system level.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. To pass information such as Test Step Name (TSN), Load Test Name (LTN), Load Script Name (LSN), Virtual User Id (VU) and others we can follow the load testing integration best practice as documented in Dynatrace and load testing tools integration.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

Sometimes it even lead to conclusions like “performance testing hitting the wall” just because load generation may be a challenge. For example, it was possible to use Mercury/HP WinRunner or QuickTest Professional (QTP) scripts in load tests, but a separate machine was needed for each virtual user (or at least a separate terminal session).