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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. 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.

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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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Client-Side Performance Testing

DZone

Find out more about client-side performance! Client-Side Performance Testing Importance and Introduction. If you're worried about the performance of your web application, you need to test and analyze not only with what happens on the server but also with what happens in the browser.

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland). Oracle Applications Testing Suite (OATS) entered sustainability mode stage. Open Source.

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A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

Dynatrace

Don’t just take my word for it, hear from Mike Kobush , Performance Engineer at NAIC, who gave us a tour of his performance test automation using Dynatrace Cloud Automation. The innovative technology powering these recent and future use cases comes from Keptn , our recognized CNCF open-source project.

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What is System Testing? – Getting Started, Tips, and Tools

Testlodge

Once the product is fully integrated, QA can go through the user’s flow from beginning to end to perform system testing and monitor non-functional behaviors while performing the tests. Usability – Usability testing ensures that a system is easy to use and navigate.

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AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. End-user monitoring. 4 AWS EFS monitoring. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing.

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