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…
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…
Webinar: End-to-End Mobile Performance Testing with Apptim and BlazeMeter
Finding a way to test UX performance in mobile and web while stressing the backend With app quality being more important than ever for app success, brand reputation,…
Quality Sense Podcast: Sofia Palamarchuk – Mobile app performance
Finding new solutions for testing mobile performance on the client side In today’s Quality Sense episode, Federico Toledo sits down for a chat with a colleague and friend,…
Shift-Left Testing in the Enterprise and the Case for Open Source
Why continuous testing and open source are a perfect match I recently visited the offices of CA Technologies (one of Abstracta’s partners) in Santa Clara, where I had…
3 Key Performance Testing Metrics Every Tester Should Know
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…
BlocklyJMX Review
Reviewing JMeter’s new online editor BlocklyJMX is a web-based alternative to JMeter for viewing and editing test plan files. If you aren’t familiar with JMeter, it’s an open…
A Quick BlazeMeter University Review
A senior performance tester’s review of the new courses by BlazeMeter Last week, I was looking for fresh knowledge on performance testing, so I asked a teammate of…
What You Need to Know About the Difference Between JMeter 4 and 5
Using JMeter 5? Understand this key difference that will impact how you set up your tests… At Abstracta, we’ve been experimenting recently with JMeter 4 and 5 (the…
How to Run Video Streaming Performance Tests with the HLS Plugin for JMeter
Using open source tools to stress test video streaming at scale In this post, I want to share something that we have been working on with BlazeMeter for…
14 Best Performance Testing Tools & APM Solutions
With all of the free and enterprise tools available for performance testing, there’s no excuse for having a system failure MAY 2020 UPDATE – We’ve added some more…
Top Performance Testing Tools to Prepare Your Website for Black Friday
The e-commerce industry’s busiest day is just around the corner… Are you ready? Everyone knows that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the most popular online shopping days…
3 Challenges to Effective Performance Testing in Continuous Integration
Performance testing in CI is a must. Here’s what to take into account from day one. Recently I gave a talk at Agile Testing Days USA in Boston,…
The Importance of Validating the Testing Infrastructure
A lesson to learn the easy way I’m a firm believer in learning from one’s mistakes. When you make a mistake, and you are truly invested in what…
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