The Best Way to Test Performance in Continuous Integration
Which are the benefits of continuous performance testing? Why is it so crucial to achieve an efficient continuous integration pipeline? Find out in the second article of our saga entitled “Performance Testing In-Depth”, with the voice of Roger Abelenda and an interview with Andréi Guchin….
Hosted by Abstracta, WOPR29 is just around the corner
How was WOPR29’s theme chosen and why is it being hosted by Abstracta in Uruguay? Find out in this article, featuring Paul Holland, Andy Hohenner, Eric Proegler, and Federico Toledo. Many articles are coming up in this new saga called “Performance Testing In-Depth”, with interviews…
JMeter DSL, an Innovative Tool for Performance Testing
What is JMeter DSL, what improvements does it bring with respect to JMeter, what are the new functionalities it provides? This open source contribution developed by Abstracta is already used by users from different parts of the world, such as the United States, India, Russia,…
Performance Testing, the Master Key to Improving your Software
The collapse of software systems due to high demand damages the user experience and their digital quality of life, generating huge losses for companies. My aim in this article is to explain why you should focus on performance testing to grow your business and reach…
Virtual Threads: JMeter meets Project Loom
Motivation: OpenJDK 19, to be released in September 2022, will incorporate a new disruptive solution: Virtual Threads, aka Project Loom. We want to learn if it is beneficial to use Virtual Threads in an application like JMeter to improve its performance. We want to experiment…
Developer’s friendly tools for continuous performance testing
How many times have we seen a test infrastructure and methodology where the team is not able to get early feedback about the performance of the system they are developing? Typically, it is expected to treat performance testing as a “waterfall project” where we, the…
An End-to-End Guide of Load Testing
From planning to analysis and reporting, here’s what to know before you run your first load test If you have a public-facing web application, the odds are you should probably be thinking about load testing. Any tester can (and should) add load testing to their…
k6 Review: Open Source Load Testing Tool for Developers
Have you heard the hype around k6 yet? Yes, yet another open source performance testing tool is making waves. In this post, I’ll share my k6 review in the hopes that it may help you decide if you should also pay attention to it. Overview…
Quality Sense Podcast: Anand Bagmar – What You Should Know About Visual Testing
In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo interviews Anand Bagmar, a professional from India with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Today, he’s a Quality Evangelist and Solution Architect at Applitools. In this episode, the two uncover the basics of visual…
Quality Sense Podcast: Andreas “Andi” Grabner – Introduction to Keptn
In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo chats with Dynatrace’s Andreas aka “Andi” Grabner. From Austria, he has more than 20 years of experience in the field and continuously shares his knowledge about performance engineering especially through his podcast called Pure Performance. During the…
Quality Sense Podcast: Julio de Lima – Machine Learning to Understand Performance Testing Results
Júlio explains a machine learning algorithm to reduce the scope of load testing and get meaningful analysis from your data faster In this Quality Sense episode, Fede has a chat with Júlio de Lima, an engineer at Capco, who recently completed his master’s degree in…
Black Friday 2020: Avoid E-Commerce Site Crashes and Slowness
Everything you need to know to technically prepare your website for Black Friday and Cyber Monday While it’s coming down to the wire for retailers to get their websites fully prepared for a successful holiday season, it’s not too late to optimize them in order…
VoIP Performance Testing for a Mental Health Hotline App
How we used SIPp for VoIP performance testing over the SIP protocol Not too long ago, some of my colleagues and I helped to run performance tests for a new mobile app with a hotline called “Yo Te Escucho” (which translates in English to “I…
Quality Sense Podcast: Leandro Melendez “Señor Performo” – Performance Testing Explained Simple
What do restaurants and performance testing have in common? We’ll spoil the punchline…. It’s servers that get stressed! In this episode of our software testing podcast, Federico interviews Leandro Melendez, whom he refers to as a “Latin American brother” also known as “Señor Performo.” Originally…
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