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…
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 draw the right conclusions from your tests. These metrics require some basic understanding of math and statistics,…
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…
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…
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…
How to Optimize Website Speed for Black Friday
Is your website prepared for record breaking traffic and sales? Before you know it, it will be Black Friday and then, Cyber Monday. These consumer “holidays” bring about the race for shoppers to buy all of the coveted items on their shopping lists before they’re…
Apache Groovy vs BeanShell: How to Make the Right Decision?
See what makes Groovy, groovy. When running load tests in Apache JMeter, in many cases it’s necessary to choose a post processor/scripting language for certain tasks, such as handling SampleResult variables, assigning dynamic names to samplers or just adding some logic to scripts. We have…
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