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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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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Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

With sufficient automated testing, you can have a high level of confidence that an isolated change can be built and integrated without breaking anything else. If any of the automated tests fail, then the build is broken and the change cannot be integrated. Performance as acceptance criteria. I know, I know.

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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 12, 2023

Sites - We've rebuilt our Sites dashboard to give you a holistic look across all of the URLs you are monitoring. 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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Speed Curve

MARCH 3, 2024

Hearing about a company that devoted significant effort into optimizing their site, only to find their performance right back where it started a few months later, is all too familiar. The reality is that, as critical as site speed is, it’s also very easy to overlook. Here's an example from a recent KickStart engagement.

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Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The traditional testing that was done on the software installed on local servers is now slowly fading away. Cloud-based testing comprises cloud-based test automation as well.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

MarketQuest (2021) predicts automation testing to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.8% That brings us to the crux of our conversation — codeless test automation. In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests.

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Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

With the increased usage of smartphones in recent years, enterprises and the software industry now have to cater their applications to mobile devices for web testing in addition to desktops. Predominantly, there are two sets of tools that can cater to all your testing requirements when it comes to mobile web testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Testing Tools Programming 52

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Why Companies Need Web Performance Monitoring Building a Successful Website Gaining success in the online world is not that simple. But beyond that, even more, important is speed and user experience. They anticipate websites and online applications to load at lightning speed.

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MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

These days everyone knows the importance of front-end site testing and has some basic tools in place to help them – but how do you know if your testing efforts are ideal? From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. What load testing tools did you use? As most things in life, by chance. What is your business model?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article will take an in-depth look at the various tools and strategies that help with mobile application testing. Why do you need to engage in testing a mobile application? However, testing has also grown in prominence and importance because without rigorous testing, companies cannot put useful apps onto the market.

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Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Recommended! PageSpeed 5.0

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

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.

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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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Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2014

As of the 1st of June SpeedCurve has switched to using faster testing agents at Amazon EC2 data centers. As web pages become more Javascript and resource heavy I've noticed more and more pages max out the CPU while performance testing. medium instances which have 3.75GB of RAM with faster CPU and network performance.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. Monitor your longest Long Tasks. Create performance budgets. Performance budgets are a vital tool in your web performance toolbox.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached. Back/Forward Cache Testing Tool. Large preview ).

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

As web perfectionists, we have heard every excuse in the book for why teams cannot make web performance a priority. Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. So you don’t know how to code?

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Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

But, as a web performance professional, I also know that they can majorly impact site speed. Google’s SpeedUpdate has you nervous about your mobile page speed. This is one reason why Google will begin ranking websites based on their mobile page speed. Take a look at how many of your users are mobile versus desktop.

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Retail Ecommerce Website Performance Mobile 40

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The DevOps approach to developing software aims to speed applications into production by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. Dynatrace news. This practice enables teams to catch runtime issues before customers do.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The DevOps approach to developing software aims to speed applications into production by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. Dynatrace news. This practice enables teams to catch runtime issues before customers do.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As the MyRocks storage engine (based on the RocksDB key-value store [link] ) is now available as part of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 , I wanted to take a look at how it performs on a relatively high-end server and SSD storage. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. About ZFS Performance.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2018

One of the longest-standing items on my performance monitoring tool wishlist is an automatically-generated performance improvement checklist , with the improvements ordered by the impact that they will have on the website. LUX is SpeedCurve's Real User Monitoring (RUM) product. Why we created the Improve dashboard.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

My analysis will look at performance data from some popular websites in an attempt to figure out whether the paint timing metrics really do answer that question. It just so happens that we can test the accuracy of the paint timing metrics by comparing them to the Start Render metric in WebPageTest. What makes a metric useful?

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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. As two examples, Roman Ferstl of Triscon noted that observability-driven DevOps has helped clients achieve 15x more tests with 10x more apps tested.

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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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Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 217

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2019

More specifically, I’ll demonstrate how in just a few steps, you can add Dynatrace information events to your Azure DevOps release pipelines for things like deployments, performance tests, or configuration changes. Having information events speeds up triage by adding context to what’s happening with the application.

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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 that is true, what is stopping organizations from truly testing user journeys? Continuously deploying new releases at 100X or 1000X speed is a DevOps state of flow all organizations strive for. Variability and complexity.

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Testing DevOps Monitoring Media 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Dynatrace API is used to automate your monitoring tasks, export different types of data into your third-party reporting and analysis tools, and to integrate into workflow tools such as Jenkins. These interfaces also allow toolchains to push problem comments, events, and metrics into Dynatrace for monitored entities. Dynatrace API.

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Software Software DevOps Open Source 143

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

CD is the next step in the process that automates the delivery of applications to selected infrastructure environments, such as a development environment for a related feature, or testing environments to verify feature functionality and proper integration with other parts of the software. Testing quality improves. Test pass rate.

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Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

Abstracta

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The post Black Friday 2020: Avoid E-Commerce Site Crashes and Slowness appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Everything you need to know to technically prepare your website for Black Friday and Cyber Monday While it’s coming down to the wire for retailers to get their.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

And while our environments have exploded in terms of complexity, we’ve reduced the number of production issues reported by our customers to around 7%, and we deploy about five thousand times per day in production-like environments to continuously test our platform. How did we achieve that? The Dynatrace way. The Dynatrace ACM Methodology.

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