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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Architectures

Alex Podelko

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. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left

Dotcom-Montior

LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing. Executing an internal test can tell you how well your application or site handles an increase in traffic, but it will never reflect real-world conditions. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. So, the organization sought to reduce complexity and raise production quality. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born.

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Cloud Testing: How to overcome the challenges of testing on-premise?

Testsigma

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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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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What is load testing?

Testlodge

Load testing is a form of non-functional testing that is carried out to understand the behaviour of an application under a specific user load. Why Load Testing? The server couldn’t withstand the load and it went down! On that day, they realized the importance of testing for potential load on the server.

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