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…
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, and ultimately, revenue, end-to-end performance testing becomes critical for the full and comprehensive assessment of real-world conditions…
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, Sofia Palamarchuk. She’s a Director and Board Member of Abstracta and the co-founder and CEO of Apptim,…
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 the chance to discuss shift-left testing, continuous testing, and why and how to turn to open source…
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 source application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. Still in its early stages of…
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 mine if she knew of any courses I could take. She recommended I try BlazeMeter University which…
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 latest versions to date) and we found a very important difference in the way they behave and…
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 several years. In this project, we had the opportunity to contribute to the open source code of…
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 tools to our original list: Apptim and Artillery 🙂 Performance tests reveal how a system behaves and…
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 of the year (besides Amazon’s Prime Day), but it’s also a day that is notorious for website…
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, my first time attending this testing conference and I was extremely pleased with the event, the things…
How to Implement Load Test Scenarios in Gatling
Let’s take a look at two ways to set up load test scenarios in Gatling As we discussed in our review of Gatling, Gatling allows us to define a wide variety of performance tests. Regarding load tests, we can implement them in any of the…
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