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…
Tutorial: How to Use Gatling With Maven
Another key integration for enabling CI/CD In this post, we will see how to use Gatling with Maven, creating an integration via plugins. In the world of CI/CD, attaining this kind of integration has become essential. In particular, I’ll show you how to integrate Gatling, use…
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…
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 plan, I am not referring to a document, but rather what we are going to execute in…
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, Santiago Peraza and Pablo Barceló, in which the objective was to make a comparative benchmark between Gatling…
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, the Senior Manager of Performance Engineering for one of our clients, Shutterfly. The webinar was called, “Learn…
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 to purchase items on their wishlist! But, when too many of these eager shoppers flood your site…
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 its excellent customer experience doesn’t deteriorate over time with the introduction of new functionalities and that your…
7 Can’t-Miss Sessions on Performance at the CMG imPACt Conference 2016
We’re attending one of the hottest conferences for performance professionals. You should too! Dubbed “the best performance conference ever” by respected performance guru, Alexander Podelko, the annual conference, CMG imPACt 2016, is taking place this November 7th through the 10th in San Diego’s not-so-secret hidden gem, La…
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 has recently been gaining popularity (250,000 downloads in four years, 60,000 of those in the last three…
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 one of the best conferences for performance professionals taking place on June 22-23. The conference mainly revolves…
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