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…
When is the Best Time to Start Performance Testing?
Should we test performance throughout development or at the end? – Agile vs. Waterfall approaches When taking into account the performance of existing systems or ones built from…
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,…
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,…
How To Ensure Your Website Handles Black Friday Traffic Without Crashing
Tips for reducing risk and having a successful Black Friday & Cyber Monday Black Friday and Cyber Monday are arriving and with them, the wave of website visitors frantically attempting…
How Shutterfly Masters Continuous Performance Testing
How Shutterfly masters continuous performance testing by “adjusting the belt tight” Picture this, you are the owner of an e-commerce website and you want to be sure that…
Gatling Tool Review for Performance Tests (Written in Scala)
Looking to try Gatling for load testing? Have you heard of Gatling for performance tests? It’s a relatively new open-source tool (created in 2012, so pretty new), that…
4 Reasons to Attend Velocity 2016
Join us at one of the largest conferences about all things performance Only two more weeks until Velocity 2016 in Santa Clara! We are busy getting ready for…
Abstracta Acquires Software Testing Training Platform, Udetec
Abstracta Academy now offering introductory and advanced software testing certifications in English and Spanish Redwood City, CA: Abstracta, a leader in software testing services, tool development, and QA training…
Abstracta and BlazeMeter Launch Performance Testing Coursework and Certification
Abstracta Academy allows developers and testers to rapidly add performance testing skills on JMeter and BlazeMeter From all of us instructors at Abstracta Academy to those who have…
[Infographic] Why Should I Become a Performance Tester?
Is becoming a performance tester the right career move for you? What is Performance Testing? Many people want to become a performance tester. First, let’s look at what…
Checklist: 8 Ways to Improve JMeter Scripts
Download our Checklist for Improving JMeter Scripts! As a professional software testing services company, for some time now we have been working to improve JMeter scripts for our…
JMeter Response Assertions: How to Know What to Validate in an HTTP Response Request
How do we select good assertions? For those of us who work with JMeter and performance tests, we know the importance of adding validations to all HTTP Requests….
Designing Performance Tests With a Little Bit of Futurology
Futurology: noun, systematically forecasting the future, especially from present trends in society I’m not going to lie, I can’t predict the future. I don’t even know what I…
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