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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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 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. Mitigating performance risks moves to SaaS vendors. The dynamic architectures represent a major challenge for both monitoring and analysis.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

Organizations globally are looking for newer technologies and tools to innovate, enhance productivity and deliver faster. If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. What is Codeless Automation Testing?

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Testlodge

MARCH 12, 2024

System testing involves analyzing the behavior and functionality of a fully integrated application. It is the third of the four levels of testing, performed after unit and integration testing but before user acceptance testing. Types of System Testing This kind of testing can be both functional and non-functional.

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Abstracta

AUGUST 30, 2018

The post Top Performance Testing Tools to Prepare Your Website for Black Friday appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Everyone knows that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the most popular online shopping days of the year (besides Amazon’s Prime Day), but it’s also a day that is notorious for website.

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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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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? Both functional and non-functional tests are essential.

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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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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In our recent Performance Clinic Automate Business Level Objective Monitoring with Dynatrace & Keptn I was able to live demo the latest version of the Dynatrace SLI Provider for Keptn which now accepts a Dynatrace dashboard as input as you can see in the following example! Together we can drive even more innovation.

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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

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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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

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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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.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it - the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn't come close. The post Getting Started with LoadView On-Demand Performance Testing appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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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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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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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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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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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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 ). Large preview ).

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The post Load Testing: HTTP vs Headless vs Real Browser appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog. An outline of the main aspects of load simulation methods such as HTTP, headless, and real browser-based followed by a comparison matrix, to help you choose an appropriate simulation approach.

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Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

Hence, developers must test their websites for all types of browsers before they deploy them for production. What is cross-browser compatibility testing? Cross-browser compatibility testing is the approach adopted by the QA team to test the browser’s overall effectiveness across all the popular browsers in the market.

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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

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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Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. In particular, JMeter has many integrations with other popular tools and a large number of plugins.

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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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Testsigma

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We do ‘ Cross Browser Testing ’ to meet the end user expectations across different web browsers. In this article, we will see how we do cross browser testing in 2 ways: manual browser testing and automated browser testing. What is Cross Browser Testing? Need for Cross Browser Testing. But which is better?

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

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. Monitoring Configuration as Code. Incident Notification and Auto-Remediation.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Held back by budget and infrastructure restrictions, some organizations have been forced to settle for load tests that paint an incomplete picture. Setting Up the Test. Creating a Script.

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Testlodge

JULY 4, 2018

Stress testing gives a measure of the reliability of a software system. Stress testing reveals how long a system can remain stable without crashing under a heavy, stressful load. In other words, we can say that stress testing discovers the breakpoint where a system starts to become unreliable. Why Stress Testing?

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Load Testing: HTTP vs Headless vs Real Browser. Therefore, performance testing has become a fundamental part of the development chain and the demand is still growing. Performance testing platforms provide a broad range of load simulation methods such as HTTP, headless, and real browser-based. Comparison.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All your JMeter results in Dynatrace for better performance engineering. Christian Inzko , Performance Engineer out of our Klagenfurt Lab, is running a lot of performance tests to validate performance and scalability of our Dynatrace clusters.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing.

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

How can you test the performance of your users’ flow, when most of it happens client-side and does not have a specific URL to point to? Throughout this article, we are going to find out how to solve these problems (and many more), and you’ll be ready to test the performance of your Single Page Application with WebPageTest!

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