Tutorial: How to Use Gatling With Maven
Another key integration for enabling CI/CD In this post, we will see how to use Gatling with Maven, creating an integration via plugins. In the world of CI/CD, attaining this kind of integration has become essential. In particular, I’ll show you…
Today’s New Challenges for Performance Engineers and How to Deal With Them
From the Cloud to CDNs, performance testing just isn’t what it used to be. If you are a performance engineer, you may have noticed that today’s new technologies and the challenges that come with them are disrupting the way in…
Apache Groovy vs BeanShell: How to Make the Right Decision?
See what makes Groovy, groovy. When running load tests in Apache JMeter, in many cases it’s necessary to choose a post processor/scripting language for certain tasks, such as handling SampleResult variables, assigning dynamic names to samplers or just adding some…
Don’t Try to Tell Me You Can Automate the Testing!
Michael Bolton’s rap teaches us it’s automated checking, not testing So, you say you can automate testing? Michael Bolton, a creator of Rapid Software Testing, would tell you you’re wrong. We were lucky enough to host Bolton at this year’s…
TestingUY 2017 with Michael Bolton, a Week of Pure Testing
A recap of the week of the fourth edition of TestingUY If I could describe last week in one word, it would be intense. With TestingUY on Monday and Tuesday, the Rapid Software Testing course Wednesday through Friday by our…
5 Most Anticipated Sessions at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2017
With so much happening at Velocity this year, here is what not to miss. There’s only a little less than one month to go before the Velocity Conference 2017 in San Jose, California. We are busy getting ready for what we…
Alerts in New Relic Synthetics: Check Website Health From Different Parts of the World
Use the tool, Synthetics, for easy website health monitoring New Relic is a company that offers many different tools, perhaps best known for its application performance monitoring (APM). At least that’s what I know it best for, since we often…
[Infographic] What You Should Know from the State of Software Testing Report 2017
Over 1600 testers have spoken… here’s what they reveal about the state of software testing in 2017. The latest and greatest international report on the software testing profession has been released, the State of Testing Report 2017 by PractiTest and Tea…
Michael Bolton to Speak at TestingUY, Latin America’s Largest Testing Conference
Michael Bolton is coming this May to Montevideo to deliver the closing keynote at the fourth annual TestingUY. Since it all started in 2014, Abstracta has been an organizer of TestingUY, with our co-founder, Federico Toledo PhD, playing a major…
Uruguay: The Best Hub for Software QA Engineers in Latin America?
Montevideo ranks the #1 city for best quality of life in Latin America, posing unlimited potential for software QA professionals and their US clients Tucked in a crook between its much larger neighbors, Argentina and Brazil, Uruguay is a small…
How to Make a Performance Test Plan
Looking to create a performance test plan? Here are some things to consider before you decide to simulate load. When talking about how to make a performance test plan, I am not referring to a document, but rather what we…
When is the Best Time to Start Performance Testing?
Waterfall vs Agile Performance Testing When taking into account the performance of existing systems or ones built from scratch, teams have to determine at what point in the development process they are going to benefit most from running performance tests….
What Does the Trump Administration Mean for Outsourcing QA?
It would be an understatement to say that the Trump administration’s mission is to “shake things up a bit.” Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it is almost impossible not to have faced the flurry of articles, videos, and…
Not Convinced Yet About “Shift-Left Testing”?
From quality assurance to quality engineering: Why you should use shift-left testing If you work in the software industry, you’ve most likely heard about “shift-left testing” from conferences, blog posts, industry publications, co-workers, etc. With Agile practices (including TDD, BDD,…
Gatling vs JMeter: Our Findings
All things equal, how do these two open source load testing tools measure up? In this post, we share our results from the experiment conducted by Abstracta’s own, Santiago Peraza and Pablo Barceló, in which the objective was to make…
A Salute to 2016 and Toast to 2017
Year in Review Several of you reading this may be anxious to leave 2016 in the past and some may not (I’m looking at you, creators of Pokémon Go, Simone Biles, and every member of the global tiger community for…
What Is and Isn’t a Scrum Master?
Demystifying the role of the Scrum Master Scrum can be difficult to understand for those accustomed to more traditional software development processes. The lack of hierarchies, the possibility of the team having to manage itself, estimates with story points, etc…
Q&A with Melissa Chawla, Senior Manager of Performance Engineering at Shutterfly
Real attendees’ questions and answers from our webinar about how Shutterfly runs performance testing continuously Last week, I had the fortune of hosting a webinar with Melissa Chawla, the Senior Manager of Performance Engineering for one of our clients, Shutterfly….
