Types of Performance Testing: Everything You Need to Know
Discover load, stress, endurance, scalability testing, and more. Find out all types of performance testing and boost high-quality with Abstracta!
Top 3 Performance Testing Metrics Explained
1. Average response time. 2. Standard deviation. 3. Percentiles 90, 95, and 99. Discover key performance testing metrics and improve your results.
Performance Testing VS Load Testing
Load Test vs. Stress Test. This is one of the most frequent topics that people look at when developing a performance testing strategy. But, in fact, it doesn’t make sense to compare performance testing vs load testing as if they were competitors. Yet, understanding the…
Why Performance Testing is Important for Robust Systems
Understand why performance testing is important to enhance user experience and prevent system failures. Learn to boost stability with Abstracta!
New Release! Integration between JMeter DSL and Azure Load Testing
We have released a new feature in JMeter DSL that significantly simplifies the use of Azure Load Testing when scaling tests. This allows performance tests developed with JMeter DSL to be run on Azure Load Testing, complementing the existing integrations with BlazeMeter and OctoPerf. We…
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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
Why Software Testing is Necessary for Delivering Superior Customer Experiences
Why should testing be a priority for today’s marketing and CX professionals? Since the recent Forrester Research event, CX SF (which we attended as sponsors), we’ve been reflecting upon the relationship between software quality and the customer experience for brands that are seeking to innovate and…
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…
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