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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

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. New Technologies (this post). Often it is the only option for component performance testing. – Cloud. – Agile.

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Synthetic tests attempt to mimic both common and uncommon user behaviors, but even the best simulations are no substitute for the real thing. Users often interact with technologies in unpredictable ways that could reveal previously unknown issues. This is because each of these traffic vectors comes with unique challenges.

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Switch to New Application Performance Testing

Apica

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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Switch from LoadRunner to a New Performance Testing Software

Apica

Understanding the market and this massive growth in applications, having a modern performance testing platform will ensure you can test streaming, API-based, and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types in DevOps friendly way. The short answer is that they aren’t.

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Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left

Dotcom-Montior

While the agile approach is focused on implementing small, iterative tests throughout the development and testing phases, the primary goal should be to deliver a world-class, consistent user experience. Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. Geofencing and geographic reachability testing for areas that are more challenging to access.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #4: Recap with Rich Howard

Rigor

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. Rich Howard on… Peak-load readiness. Practical planning. Proven techniques.