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The Three Types of Performance Testing

CSS Wizardry

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. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is.

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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. The tool looked young but promising, and I was looking for a change and a challenge, which is why I joined them along with Quentin to develop the business plan/strategy. Neotys, Gatling, OctoPerf, Ubik….

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Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Dynatrace

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Availability testing Availability testing helps organizations confirm that a site or application is responding to user requests. Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors.

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Fixing Performance Regressions Before they Happen

The Netflix TechBlog

Any performance regression that makes it into a product release will degrade user experience, so the challenge is to detect and fix such regressions before they ship. This post describes how the Netflix TVUI team implemented a robust strategy to quickly and easily detect performance anomalies before they are released?—?and

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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.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. Read more details about PayPal in this blog who is an early practitioner for performance as a self-service. #2 2 New roles and responsibilities at Panera Bread