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Heap Memory In Java Applications Performance Testing

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By not having enough knowledge and experience in Java, how the JVM and garbage collector will work, and how Java memory is built, many performance engineers fail to find and address the java bottlenecks when we execute Java application performance testing.

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Performance Testing Using Iter8

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There are umpteen performance testing tools available in the commercial market as well as in the open-source repositories. Recently, Go-based performance testing tools are exploding in the open-source world. Based on our requirements, we can choose the best tool from the arsenal.

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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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Interviewing and Hiring Software Performance Test Professionals - Book Review

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A few weeks ago, I reviewed The Hitchhiking Guide To Load Testing Projects: A Fun, Step-by-Step Walk-Through Guide by Leandro Melendez. It is good to see more books on the performance testing/engineering genre recently. One of my favorite books is The Art of Application Performance Testing series by Ian Molyneaux.

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Removing the Roadblock to Continuous Performance Testing

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Continuous performance testing makes total sense. You can’t afford to have a new feature, update, or bug fix brings you two steps forward and three steps back. The new functionality must work flawlessly — and it can’t disrupt the pre-existing functionality that users have come to rely on.

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3 Performance Testing Metrics Every Tester Should Know

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Making sense of the average, standard deviation and percentiles in performance testing reports. There are certain performance testing metrics that are essential to understand properly in order to draw the right conclusions from your tests.

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Web Performance Testing — What, Why, How of Core Web Vitals

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Core Web Vitals is a key performance metric that analyzes the website's performance by investigating the data and provides a strategic platform to scale up the website's user experience. This article will learn about web performance testing and how Core Web Vitals plays a crucial and strategic part in it.