Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. 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. Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. In agile development / DevOps environments it should be interwoven with the whole development process. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

At Dynatrace’s 2020 Perform Conference, we shared approaches for how our customers are using Dynatrace to help them “ Release Better Software Faster ”. This information speeds up triage by adding context to what is happening with the application by DevOps Teams. Performance test is run. Dynatrace news.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Functional and non-functional testing are the two types of software testing. There are various types of functional testing, that are as below: Unit Testing. Integration Testing. System Testing. Regression Testing. Smoke Testing. Sanity Testing. Acceptance Testing.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform already comes with release analysis, version awareness , and Service Level Objective (SLO) support as part of the Dynatrace Cloud Automation solution , helping DevOps and SRE teams automate the delivery and operational decisions. Dynatrace news. GitOps: Cloud automation as code.

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Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. Legacy performance testing platforms have their place and are still required to ensure past investments can be monitored.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In my previous article about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , I defined CI/CD and explained how these practices work together to help DevOps teams deliver quality software faster. For software to be delivered in a deployable state at all times requires that it be developed with that mindset.

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DZone

MAY 12, 2019

Today, we're going to talk about JUnit and unit testing, one of the key skills for any software developer. You may already know that JUnit and Mockito are two of the most popular testing libraries for Java applications, and you will find them in almost every Java application classpath.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Performance-as-a-self-service . Get started today! .

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Testsigma

JULY 25, 2020

Continuous Testing is the testing strategy to fast-track the testing required for achieving rapid software development using Agile and DevOps methodologies. What is Continuous Testing? If integration tests pass, automated acceptance tests can be run followed by performance tests.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Part Two of the Humanizing Software Quality Series from Intellyx, for Apica. In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. If that is true, what is stopping organizations from truly testing user journeys? Putting the user at the center instead of the software.

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Testsigma

APRIL 17, 2020

The testers in a software development team will be understood better if they are able to convey the software testing information and insights properly. Below are 5 ways that testers can communicate software testing insights better: 1. Test execution reports for example.

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

George Ukkuru is a seasoned technocrat and AVP of quality engineering, DevOps, and SRE @Marlabs Inc. Over the course of two decades, he has helped Fortune 500 companies implement Agile testing practices. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. This changes how teams test for quality.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 24, 2017

There was a rather heated discussion around A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing by James Bach and Michael Bolton (referred below as the article and the authors – other references would be explicit). and Open letter to “CDT Test Automation” reviewers as well as in many other different places.

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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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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2023

Developers are increasingly responsible for ensuring the quality and security of code throughout the software lifecycle. This can disrupt the users of the running application, slow down the application’s performance, or even crash it altogether. Debugging in production often requires shutting down services.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Dynatrace news. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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DZone

MAY 3, 2019

With the introduction of the agile methodology and transformation into the digital world, the software development lifecycle is changing rapidly and increasing the need for better software testing capabilities. In 2019, we are expecting a lot of new changes in the web and this further poses a challenge in the testing cycle.

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Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Non-functional testing focuses on user expectations, whereas functional testing is to do with user requirements. Non-functional testing examines how a system operates rather than looking at specific functions or behaviors. Why is Non-Functional Testing necessary? Both functional and non-functional tests are essential.

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Alex Podelko

JULY 13, 2018

One software vendor ask me, along with a few other performance professionals, to answer questions related to performance trends. That, of course, should involve more automation to performance checks. Rather, we need a holistic approach to performance instead of looking for silver bullets. for more thoughts.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

It feels like just yesterday DevOps was all the rage, and everything had to be “Cloud” in order to be modern. These days, most organizations have embraced the benefits of DevOps and are running one or more of their applications on somebody else’s computer. Dynatrace news. Zero daily deployments. The Dynatrace way.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. Autonomous Cloud was driven by our customers need to better automation.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 13, 2021

Traditional Software Development Life Cycle such as Waterfall Model relied on step by step movement from left to right in SDLC. Evidently, testing came last in the cycle and any delays in it resulted in coinciding with the deadlines. What is shift-left testing? The testing activities are automated. Reference: [link].

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

For about a decade now in the world of Agile where quick and frequent releases are the main goal, DevOps has just been the right solution which let teams automate all redundant development as well as Ops related tasks leading up to a release. DevTestOps is a combination of DevOps and Continuous Testing. What is DevTestOps?

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

So how do the testing community ensure that this love for iPhone and iOS apps grows manifolds with time? With quality testing and automation, we can ensure the iPhone provides the best experience to its loyal users. In this article, we will be looking at mobile testing for iOS. Unit Testing.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

MarketQuest (2021) predicts automation testing to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.8% That brings us to the crux of our conversation — codeless test automation. In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

With the advent of agile and DevOps culture, we’re already embracing digital transformation. If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. Gone are the days when automation testers had to learn coding to write test scripts.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

While these tools are nicely on their way to becoming mainstream for development, similar ones for test automation are pushing their way into the market. Therefore, test automation solutions today need to make testing accessible to those with a certain level of coding skills and those without coding skills. credits: me.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

System Performance Estimation, Evaluation, and Decision (SPEED) by Kingsum Chow, Yingying Wen, Alibaba. – Performance engineering as it done at Alibaba – which emerging as a major cloud provider. How is DevOps changing the Modern Software Development Landscape? , a Panel Discussion. by Stefano Doni, Akamas.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

With the advancement in technology together with the advent of Agile and DevOps, the software industry is witnessing many changes. Testing, being the part of the software arena, is also advancing to great new heights. What is codeless test automation ? Codeless test automation does not mean that there is NO script.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2020

Everything you need to know about performance engineering. Being a software developer means much more than simply writing bug-free code. Application performance engineering is an essential practice for any DevOps team, allowing developers across departments to stay agile and efficient.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 27, 2019

When you are delivering a web-based or mobile-based software in the competitive market, you need to ensure your website functions smoothly on every type of environment as intended. We do ‘ Cross Browser Testing ’ to meet the end user expectations across different web browsers. What is Cross Browser Testing? But which is better?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2019

I’m often asked by customers and prospects evaluating Dynatrace, “ How do I get started integrating Dynatrace into my software delivery pipelines? ” Microsoft DevOps Azure is one of the best CI/CD systems and a strategic technical Dynatrace partner. Call the PowerShell script from an Azure DevOps release pipeline.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In general, most websites or web apps run into errors because of a solitary reason: solid cross-browser testing isn’t performed. When you perform cross-browser testing, you validate visual elements and ensure all functional and non-functional aspects of the website are consistent across different browsers.

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