Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 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. While agile development / DevOps become mainstream nowadays, their integration with performance testing is just making first steps.

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Abstracta

AUGUST 9, 2019

With all of the free and enterprise tools available for performance testing, there’s no excuse for having a system failure Performance tests reveal how a system behaves and responds during various situations. A system may run very well with only 1,000 concurrent users, but how.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014.

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DZone

MAY 9, 2021

For the people using Azure Service Bus namespaces, we often have the need to ensure the Azure Service Bus Performance by testing our system integration by generating some test messages on the Azure Service Bus resources. You might need this for QA/Development for performance testing, load testing, etc.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/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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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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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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Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Non-functional testing focuses on user expectations, whereas functional testing is to do with user requirements. Non-functional testing examines how a system operates rather than looking at specific functions or behaviors. Why is Non-Functional Testing necessary? Risks of not Performing Non-Functional Testing.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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. Service mash insights.

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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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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. Benefits of On-Premise Testing.

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InfoQ

JUNE 9, 2021

The PDCA (plan-do-check-act) framework can be used to outline the performance, availability, and monitoring to enable teams to ensure performant and highly available applications. These include infrastructure design and setup, application architecture and design, coding, performance testing, and application monitoring.

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Testsigma

MAY 26, 2021

In today’s world where ‘data is the new oil’ ( as said by Clive Humby), not giving proper attention to data-driven testing is not justified. If you have an application that needs data input in some form then it will require data-driven testing. The steps will be: Create and store the test data in a data repository.

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Apica

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Application monitoring is one of the highest IT priorities in today’s business. By upgrading to the Apica Synthetic monitoring solution, you gain access to a long list of features legacy tools don’t have, including the following: Proactive monitoring to identify issues before users experience a problem. Preparation.

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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

After every experiment run Akamas changes application, runtime, database or cloud configuration based on monitoring data it captured during the previous experiment run. Akamas integrates with many popular monitoring tools like Prometheus or Dynatrace and with load injection tools like Neoload or Loadrunner to gather performance data.

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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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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. Gone are the days when automation testers had to learn coding to write test scripts. Enter codeless automation testing, which is one of the latest software trends to look out for.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2018

An essential part of database performance testing is viewing the statistics generated by the database during the test and in 2009 HammerDB introduced automatic AWR snapshot generation for Oracle for the TPC-C test. However what if you want to review performance data in real time as the test is running?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. This extra cluster, known as a follower cluster, can be leveraged for multiple use cases, including for analyzing, optimizing and testing your application performance for MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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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. Top 5 Reasons Why Performance Monitoring is Useful There is no doubt that monitoring of web page load times is a must have for successful businesses.

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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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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Our experts and platform will also give your IT organizations knowledge on when and how to test.

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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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Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All of these aspects of a digital user journey should be tested by a person. There’s nothing wrong with wanting the reassurance of good old-fashioned human-based user acceptance testing (UAT). Component level testing. All of these changed habits are natural reactions to the challenge of testing user journeys.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

He goes into detail covering the steps that need to be taken to ensure that a website or application is prepared for an influx of traffic, from scoping and testing to setting expectations and creating a contingency plan. Performance testing. Seasonal readiness testing involves both the front and back end. Retrospectives.

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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. Test Early and Often.

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Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Load testing is a form of non-functional testing that is carried out to understand the behaviour of an application under a specific user load. Why Load Testing? On that day, they realized the importance of testing for potential load on the server. Yes, loading testing is mighty important! Load Testing Parameters.

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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. How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences. Monitoring Time to Interactive. Recommended!

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

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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. Even once the operating system gets hold of a frame, there can be a noticeable delay before that frame is actually rendered to the screen. What makes a metric useful?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. Shift-left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the software development process, thus the process of shifting to the “left” side of the DevOps lifecycle.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. Shift-left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the software development process, thus the process of shifting to the “left” side of the DevOps lifecycle.

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