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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Oracle Applications Testing Suite (OATS) entered sustainability mode stage. Well, yes and no. Open Source.

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Cloud-Based Testing – A tester’s perspective

Testsigma

May pose security issues, since the data is handed over to a third party during testing. Requires very good internet connectivity. Traditional testing advantages. No internet connectivity is required for testing since it is executed locally. Where the users can directly write the test cases using plain English.

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Cross-browser testing on the cloud: advantages and disadvantages

Testsigma

The testing environment can be scaled up and down in seconds. The testing needs in today’s world are dynamic and the test environment should complement this behaviour. Let’s understand this with the help of an example – there is a video-streaming website that is available for laptops and computers only.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

Such tool can only be used if it supports the specific protocol used for communication between two tiers of the system. With quick internet growth and the popularity of browser-based clients, most products support only HTTP or a few select web-related protocols. Programming API using a Load Testing Tool.

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9 Tips To Avoid Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues from the start

Testsigma

Such errors may pose problems while rendering for old browsers like Internet Explorer. Examples of CSS reset style sheets are-. Older versions of Internet Explorer check for the DOCTYPE tag at the beginning of the code. For effective testing, we should use automated Cross-Browser compatibility testing tools.

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KeyCDN Launches IPv6 Support

KeyCDN

That’s why the Internet is currently in a transition period of migrating from IPv4 to the newest version of the Internet Protocol: IPv6. This new version of the Internet protocol has been automatically added to all Zones. IPv6 was first defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1996 in RFC 1883.

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Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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