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: Alon Girmonsky – Testing Microservices with UP9
Challenges of testing microservices and why we need observability In this episode of Quality Sense, host, Federico Toledo intervews Alon Girmonsky, an accomplished, multi-time entrepreneur and technology leader. He’s a passionate engineer who loves building developer tools and companies. Today, he’s the CEO and co-founder…
Software Testing Tools We’re Watching Out for in 2020
Innovative tools our quality engineers are excited about these days Do you like to stay in the know about the most up-and-coming software testing tools? We do too! Due to the size of our team (100 testers) and to the nature of our services, we’re…
Quality Sense Podcast: Refael Botbol – Optimizing Performance Testing Costs
Interviewing a leading expert in performance engineering and open source tools Recently for his Quality Sense Podcast, Federico Toledo interviewed Refael Botbol, the BlazeMeter testing domain expert at Broadcom, where he enables developers to achieve higher-quality applications by injecting testing throughout the software development lifecycle….
Migrating to Open Source Testing Tools (Especially Now)
Key considerations and strategies for going the open source route If you’re paying for expensive software testing tool licences, perhaps something to consider is migrating to open source alternatives to optimize costs, especially if your team needs to find ways to go lean during the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 already taken the course, congratulations and thank you for choosing us! Redwood City and Palo Alto, California,…
Top 10 Testing Tools We’re Most Grateful For This Thanksgiving [Infographic]
Top 10 testing tools we love After testing millions of lines of code this year, obsessing over quality, we at Abstracta are looking forward to testing something a bit different: Thanksgiving dinner! Checking that this year’s stuffing, turkey, potatoes, green beans, pumpkin pie, etc. haven’t…
Introduction to Taurus: An Alternative to JMeter
JMeter struggles? Taurus to the rescue! For those of you who know JMeter (the most popular open source tool for testing performance), your first thought was probably not “What a user-friendly software program! It’s so clear what this script does!” Taurus is here to fix that…
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