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Test Planning Simplified

DZone

In my experiences of planning for testing in various environments, and across several teams and organizations, the value of that planning was never the document itself; rather, it was the thoughts and consideration of the activities, resources and potential risks and issues yet to be discovered.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

The Netflix TechBlog

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Need to catch up?

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Interpreting A/B test results: false positives and statistical significance

The Netflix TechBlog

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the third post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix) and Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?). Need to catch up?

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Recording on JMeter

DZone

This series helps you to learn Apache JMeter in a much simpler way with the relevant examples and exercises. To get started with application performance testing, the first step in JMeter is recording your business transactions. Recording the business flow helps to expedite the process of creating test plans. What Is Recording?

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

This blog post will provide a detailed analysis of replay traffic testing, a versatile technique we have applied in the preliminary validation phase for multiple migration initiatives. In this testing strategy, we execute a copy (replay) of production traffic against a system’s existing and new versions to perform relevant validations.

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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

Saving several hours preparing and doing a design review will cost hundreds (if not thousands of hours) of fixing issues down the road.nn> unit testsnnI don’t believe that I have to say that in 2021, but I have never seen a quality product without unit tests. We live in a time when everybody is irked by manual testing.

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