Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Mobile phones have taken over the world in a way few technologies and inventions have been able to in the past. As mobile phone usage and internet penetration continue to grow at unprecedented rates, competition amongst developers is also at all-time heights. Why do you need to engage in testing a mobile application?

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The world isn’t new to the mobile-first approach. Call it convenience or anything else — people are consuming content on their mobile phones more than their desktops and this will only increase in the near future. According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users.

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives.

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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.

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Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

Mobiles have become a part and parcel of our lives. These are showcased to prove a single point — how important a mobile phone is! As the number of websites has increased with time, so has the source of traffic leading to that website. Why automation in mobile browser testing is important?

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. Conversely, search results on desktop and mobile may appear different as desktop searches will use desktop Core Web Vitals data and mobile searches will use mobile data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. And the last thing you want to do with synthetic is introduce false positives (the bane of all synthetic testing) into the system, and yet this was happening too often.

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DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

As applications are designed and developed for varied platforms, spanning mobile, desktop, and cloud, testing user interfaces has turned into an increasingly complicated and risk-prone job. While having its series of challenges and loopholes, automated UI testing is gaining traction. 55% of businesses conduct UX testing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In a recent workshop I did with a global player in the financial market we used their new mobile banking app as a reference. Therefore, the first three goals/objectives are all related to the mobile app itself including adoption, app store rating, and crashes. Mobile app rating is a good example of Objective Driven Development.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2020

By investigating these questions, we distilled these two pain points: Following definition of application detection rules, some users don’t see traffic from the correct URLs in the corresponding Dynatrace applications (i.e., To do this, go to Settings > Web and mobile monitoring > Application detection and RUM.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. Endpoint monitoring (EM).

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture. AI and Machine learning-based testing.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

Everything needed to function correctly and perform as well or better in the cloud while meeting federal accessibility guidelines with a smooth rollout for both desktop and mobile users.

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Government Strategy Cloud Traffic 210

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The internet traffic from mobile (as compared to that from desktops) has also been increasing, and now stands at 56%. The point I am trying to make is that if you have a website – it can be accessed from a web browser or a mobile browser. But, there are multiple ways that cross-browser testing can be done: i.

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Cloud Testing Mobile Internet 82

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Given the global nature of the service and Netflix’s commitment to creating a service that members enjoy, it is not surprising that we support a wide variety of streaming devices, from set-top-boxes and mobile devices to smart TVs. Hence, as the encoding team, we continuously maintain a variety of encode families, stretching back to H.263.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

With this approach, teams can scale testing for all environments, which reduces efforts in replicating, updating, and maintaining test scripts. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. No external tools or additional configurations are needed.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Often, their test results are good, but visitors are reporting slow load times (or they see a high bounce rate ). Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop. That’s only half of the story!

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. If we have to talk numbers, according to Statcounter , around 41.58% of mobile users have Android devices, globally. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. .

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Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Earlier posts covered the basics of A/B tests ( Part 1 and Part 2 ), core statistical concepts ( Part 3 and Part 4 ), how to build confidence in a decision ( Part 5 ), and the the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix ( Part 6 ).

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 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. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

So, Smashing Magazine knows about web performance, and if they were struggling, then this could be an interesting test case to look at! The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile. Search Console told Smashing Magazine that their LCP on mobile for most of their pages needed improving. Investigating The LCP Issue.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

The Ministry of Interior (MOI) in Qatar provides these immigration services online for their residents via their mobile app, Metrash. Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. You can test for them before releasing to production and can even simulate chaotic situations, e.g:

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Java Traffic Government Code 227

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. Mobile INP is really important! for mobile. for mobile. Not sure what INP means or why it matters?

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Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 81

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

The recipients of watermarked documents are able to access these documents and links in their email as well as in the Prodicle mobile application. Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Early prototypes and load tests validated that the offering could meet our needs.

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Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Measuring the Relative Mobile Conversion Rate : Identify performance issues by comparing the conversion rates on mobile and desktop. Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time. Take this example: Mobile. Conversion rate.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

Thus, it’s evident that people can be accessing the same website from multiple browsers at the same time – which makes cross-browser testing very important. Another part of cross-browser testing, cross-device testing is equally important – not only because people use mobile browsers but also heavily use mobile apps.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. This means that an origin that has relatively little traffic, but sufficient to be included in the dataset, is counted equally to a very popular, high-traffic origin. Large preview ).

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Google Performance Website Mobile 128

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. What more can we learn from this test, to inform the next one?”

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. Selenium is widely used as a test automation framework for end-to-end testing of web applications.

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Testsigma

JULY 13, 2021

Now that we know, just having a website is not enough and that quality and experience play a major role too, it becomes imperative that you test your website to ensure both of these criteria are met. The one obvious way of ensuring this is via testing. To automate your website, the best way is to do automated web testing.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 13, 2021

In the vast ocean of mobile apps and websites/web apps, we’re going to talk about web apps and web testing in this post. . Here comes the important question: are you wondering if your business requires automated web testing? Do you know when is a good time to make that shift to automated testing ?

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Testing Website Testing Tools Internet 59

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps aims to move applications more quickly into production by releasing new builds frequently — often several times per day — and incorporating constant feedback and testing, both during development and after software is deployed. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process?

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Migration Testing Infrastructure Our monolith had been around for many years and hadn’t been created with functional and unit testing in mind, so those were independently bolted on by each UI team. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This release candidate then went through exhaustive testing which attempted to cover as large a surface area as possible. This testing stage took about two weeks. The CAS and LGS cover much of the innovations that we have previously presented in our tech blogs ( per-title , mobile encodes , per-shot , optimized 4K encoding , etc.).

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