Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Various testing activities take place throughout the software development lifecycle, including compatibility testing, which is a non-functional testing technique.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These are the errors that also need attention during the testing phase. We can divide the errors during software development into two sections for easy understanding: Software errors Testing errors. Example: An e-commerce website is unable to process the payment part. Hardware error. Testing errors.

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Software Software Testing Hardware 82

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation.

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Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Upgrading to the newest release of MongoDB is the key to unlocking its full potential, but it’s not as simple as clicking a button; it requires meticulous planning, precise execution, and a deep understanding of the upgrade process. You should also review your hardware resources, how you use MongoDB, and any custom configurations.

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Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 85

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

and, just like other software or hardware products, DNA runs internal testing groups where employees can beta test new devices and give feedback so that any annoying usability issues are addressed before hitting the mass market. During his presentation, he also talked about how he transformed the feedback process for Hubi 2.0

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Mobile Media Hardware Network 192

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. Each kind of testing is listed chronologically—that is, you should do them in order—but all complement each other, and will ultimately feed into one another.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 172

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Cross-browser testing is performed to be sure that your product is working as expected on the various device, platform, and browser (and their versions) combinations that your customers might be using. However, the pain and efforts associated can be reduced, if the cross-browser testing is cloud-based. Reference: [link]. Maintenance.

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Cloud Testing Infrastructure Internet 96

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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Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 198

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

There’s no other competing software that can provide this level of value with minimum effort and optimal hardware utilization that can scale up to web-scale! I’d like to stress the lean approach to hardware that our customers require for running Dynatrace Managed. Increased processing power with the update to JRE 11.

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Performance Hardware Java Storage 150

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 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. Another major trend is using multiple third-party components and services, which may be not easy to properly incorporate into testing. – Cloud.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cloud testing, in simple terms, means testing software applications using the resources provided by the cloud. Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. Cloud testing helps an organization gain competitiveness by reducing the cost of testing.

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Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services. What is cloud migration?

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

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? Continuous Testing is the process of testing at all stages of software development – one after the other – without any human intervention.

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Testing DevOps Performance Testing Infrastructure 55

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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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

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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Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This AI-driven control plane further abstracts away the complexity of underlying webhook-based integrations, enabling IT to assemble end-to-end processes that manage related interdependencies regardless of the underlying technology. Hence there are far fewer chances for false positives.

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Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 172

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security is a combination of policies, processes, and controls that aim to reduce the risk of exposing cloud-based applications to compromise or failure from external or internal threats. Unfortunately, traditional security testing and software composition analysis requires significant time to return results.

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Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 176

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. This trend shows that organizations are dedicating significantly more Kubernetes clusters to running software build, test, and deployment pipelines.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 342

Testlodge

MARCH 28, 2018

This is where recovery testing comes in. What is Recovery Testing? Recovery testing is when you force the failure of your software in order to verify that recovering from the failure is both possible and properly performed. The Importance of Recovery Testing. How is recovery testing conducted? Conclusion.

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Testing Airlines Hardware Software 50

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

During the entire SDLC phase, there are various kinds of testing performed at different stages. Each stage of testing has different objectives to fulfil. The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing.

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Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Just a manual testing approach would not suffice for today’s wired devices and dynamic architectural applications of Industry 4.0. The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time.

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Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance. In this way a user-space process defines a “fence” within which CFS operates for each container. So why mess with it?

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This measurement includes time spent testing until the service is fully functional again. This includes time your team spends investigating, repairing, and testing. The mean time to recovery lifecycle includes more measurements at the beginning and the end of the process. Mean time to repair. Mean time to recovery.

DevOps 207

DevOps Artificial Intelligence Metrics Network 207

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). This causes average slowdowns of 66% across the select , poll , and epoll tests.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behavior. Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. Mariana Macedo. 2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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? On that day, they realized the importance of testing for potential load on the server. Yes, loading testing is mighty important! Load Testing Parameters.

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Testing Testing Tools Servers Network 51

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

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.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. This plays a crucial role in supervising the replication process.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Testsigma

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has dabbled in software development, testing, and automation, and often shares his learnings in his blog. In this QnA, Rahul makes the point that a randomly failing test is always worth investigating and that assumptions are dangerous in testing. Q1: What are your most and least favorite things about test automation?

Engineering 96

Engineering Hardware Software Engineering Testing 96

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Distribute user load by geographical testing locations, simulating your customer base.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The standard specification describes in minute detail how a video bitstream should be processed in order to produce displayable video frames. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. Throughput: The throughput of an application is directly influenced by the speed at which the database can process and serve queries.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52