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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Also called continuous monitoring or synthetic monitoring , synthetic testing mimics actual users’ behaviors to help companies identify and remediate potential availability and performance issues. Availability testing Availability testing helps organizations confirm that a site or application is responding to user requests.

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Test Plan and Test Strategy: Best Practices That Will Make Your Product Development a Success

DZone

That's where a test plan and test strategy can help. If you don't measure quality, you don't have any control over the testing process or any ability to anticipate the results. However, the value and purpose of the quality assurance process are not transparent without documentation.

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Automated web testing – some strategies to achieve ROI?

Testsigma

If your requirements are satisfied by a tool X and a tool Y, you can choose the one asking for less money. For example, a fantastic cloud-based automation testing tool is Testsigma that hosts real devices that give accurate results and performance metrics of your web application.

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

Dynatrace

To implement performance as a self-service, you’ll need to look at how your organization currently prepares, tests and analyzes performance, including your current testing strategy, tools, monitoring technology, service virtualization, test data management, flow, roles, and skills.

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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf. I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. What load testing tools did you use?

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Keptn – The Autonomous Cloud control plane for Dynatrace explained

Dynatrace

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. A popular use case of Keptn is the SLI/SLO-based Quality Gate capability.

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Automated Deployment and Architectural Validation with Pitometer and keptn!

Dynatrace

Introducing Pitometer: Metrics-based Deployment Validation in your CI/CD. The following shows how to evaluate a deployment score based on metrics from Prometheus and Dynatrace. Pitometer is used to validate a deployment after it was successfully tested based on the defined testing strategy. Pitometer is a Node.js