Abstracta

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Navigate web application performance testing with our comprehensive step-by-step approach. From selecting the right tools to grasping essential metrics, we illuminate the path to a high-performing website. As we discussed in this article, performance testing is a critical part of the software testing process.

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

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

To ensure that users get high-performing software that works seamlessly under all load conditions, performance testing is necessary. This test helps to measure the speed, scalability, reliability, and stability of software under varying loads, thus it ensures stable performance. What Is Performance Testing?

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DZone

AUGUST 29, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll examine one such case where we use the Sentry JavaScript SDK to instrument Jest (which runs our frontend test suite) and how we addressed the issues that we found. We have high-level metrics for how well (or not) our CI is performing.

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DZone

JULY 21, 2022

Development of any software is a tedious and long process, and it undergoes a series of quality and performance tests before its release and use. As the technological world evolves, so do user expectations for handling applications; it is essential to test the performance of the applications before deploying them on a large scale.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Automating quality gates is ideal, as it minimizes manually checking and validating key metrics throughout the SDLC. By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This should do it: I submit the PR with the changes and verify that the deployment was successful in GitHub: Navigating to my SpeedCurve Deployments dashboard, I see that a deploy has automatically been created and it is in queue for testing. I find what I was after when I view the test details for that deployment.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. All your JMeter results in Dynatrace for better performance engineering. For some of these tests, he’s using the open source tool Apache JMeter.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Image by Freepik On-demand testing has sparked a lot of discussion here at SpeedCurve over the past year. You've always had the ability to manually trigger a round of tests – based on the scheduled tests in your settings – using the 'Test Now' button. What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

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DZone

JUNE 16, 2021

Application Performance Index. If, like me, you have some difficulties in making a Pass/Fail call for your performance tests when given the Summary Statistics of the performance test results, then the Apdex metric may come in handy.

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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. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

While an SLI is just a metric, an SLO just a threshold you expect your SLI to be in and SLA is just the business contract on top of an SLO. Thanks to its event-driven architecture, Keptn can pull SLIs (=metrics) from different data sources and validate them against the SLOs. class SRE implements DevOps) !

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Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. Legacy performance testing platforms have their place and are still required to ensure past investments can be monitored.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. Resilient applications with chaos testing in pre-production Another Dynatrace team uses a guardian as a safeguard during chaos testing.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is synthetic monitoring?

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 1, 2021

Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell you that front-end testing is for everyone. In fact, there are many types of tests and perhaps that is where some of the initial fear or confusion comes from. Integration.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 12, 2023

Pages - This detailed view gives you trended information for all the metrics you know and love. Easily identify areas of opportunity and how things are performing over time for specific pages you are monitoring. Tests - We've had a lot of requests for this, so we're happy to deliver it. Let's take a look!

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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, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

How can you test the performance of your users’ flow, when most of it happens client-side and does not have a specific URL to point to? Throughout this article, we are going to find out how to solve these problems (and many more), and you’ll be ready to test the performance of your Single Page Application with WebPageTest!

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DZone

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. Let's take a look at some of the causes of negative impacts on performance testing and some quick resolutions that will help smooth everything out. Heap memory utilization. Number of active/daemon threads.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Performance-as-a-self-service . Get started today! .

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. If you were on a desert island and forced to bring only one service level objective of a successful application, you would absolutely want to keep tracking user journeys, leaving the rest of the metrics behind. Let’s move past it.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 3, 2024

We need breadcrumbs that we can follow back to the source to help us identify why a metric may have changed. While a budget alone doesn’t ensure good performance, I have yet to see a company sustain performance over the long haul without using some sort of performance budget (whether they use that term or not).

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). Doing the analysis.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

Many of our users are performance engineers using Cloud Automation Quality Gates to automate the analysis of their performance and load tests – saving hours of analysis time for each test they run. You run load tests monitored with Dynatrace and you want to automatically validate to eliminate the manual analysis effort.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

D) By running performance testing on your infrastructure.(B+C) But it is vital to acknowledge where your weakness in terms of performance.ConclusionI recommended running performance tests and collecting the measurements determined above*.I Make sure you take it under your consideration

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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. Dynatrace news. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 21, 2021

This creates a need to perform thorough testing of mobile applications and their usability. In this article, we will discuss how we can perform mobile usability testing that would enable us to create applications that live up to the user’s standards. What is mobile usability testing? Conducting the test.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. While most of the tools covered below only rely on field metrics, others use a mix of both field and lab metrics.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Environment interfaces include queries for topology, metrics, problems, and user sessions to name a few. These interfaces also allow toolchains to push problem comments, events, and metrics into Dynatrace for monitored entities. Performance test is run. The Dynatrace event API call is a single web request. Jenkins setup.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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