Wed.Jun 12, 2019

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. If we speak about open source tools, we definitely see some improvement – but in many areas they are still behind the best commercial tools (yes, many may not need these adv

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Scalability?: ?Think in Terms Of TCO

DZone

A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system. The workload could refer to anything from an increase in users, storage, or a number of transactions. To make an easy-to-scale system, it is crucial to have an evolutionary way of thinking about the software development cycle.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #2: Recap with Alla Gringaus

Rigor

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. You’ll be armed with information you can use in your own organization, and you’ll impress everyone with your insider knowledge!

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5 Benefits of Parallel Testing

DZone

These days software firms are putting in a lot of effort to attain quality at speed. Whether it’s continuous testing, Agile or bringing AI into automation , it is required to refine the software development process to keep up with the rapid technological changes. The best way to do that is to adopt practices like parallel testing which will save time and effort.

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Data-Driven Testing Using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Selenium

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Introduction. According to Guru 99, "Data-driven testing is a test automation framework which stores test data for applications in a table or spreadsheet format. This helps automation testers to have a single test script which can execute tests for all the test data in the Excel file." The input data for testing can be stored in single or multiple data sources like XLS, XLSX, XML or in JSON files.

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Defining Test Boundaries — An Example

DZone

I think that everybody agrees that testing is required in order to build a quality product. But there’s also a lot of confusion about the boundaries of each test type. What’s the scope of a unit test? What’s the difference between an integration test, an integrated test and a contract test? If you ask three developers about test boundaries, you’ll most likely get three different answers.

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Testing the CP Subsystem with Jepsen

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At Hazelcast we take reliability very seriously. With the new CP Subsystem module, Hazelcast has become the first and only IMDG that offers a linearizable distributed implementation of the Java concurrency primitives backed by the Raft consensus algorithm. In addition to well-grounded designs and proven algorithms, reliability also requires a substantial amount of testing.

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