[Infographic] Why Should I Become a Performance Tester?
Is becoming a performance tester the right career move for you? What is Performance Testing? Many people want to become a performance tester. First, let’s look at what it means to be one. Upon the go-live of a system, one of the biggest risks to…
Checklist: 8 Ways to Improve JMeter Scripts
Download our Checklist for Improving JMeter Scripts! As a professional software testing services company, for some time now we have been working to improve JMeter scripts for our clients so as to enable them to run performance tests quickly and easily with the help of…
JMeter Response Assertions: How to Know What to Validate in an HTTP Response Request
How do we select good assertions? For those of us who work with JMeter and performance tests, we know the importance of adding validations to all HTTP Requests. Validations are not just a way to confirm that the server is responding as expected, but they…
Designing Performance Tests With a Little Bit of Futurology
Futurology: noun, systematically forecasting the future, especially from present trends in society I’m not going to lie, I can’t predict the future. I don’t even know what I am going to eat for dinner most days, but in testing, sometimes we have to put our…
How to Optimize E-Commerce Website Performance For Black Friday
Black Friday: What’s your Last Minute Game Plan? Time to optimize e-commerce website performance It’s almost that wonderful time of year again, the SuperBowl of shopping, Black Friday, followed by Cyber Monday. While online shoppers are creating a strategic game plan by pre-scoping out the…
Performance Testing in Production
Can you run performance tests in production? Imagine that we have to run a test that we’ve already designed with a good load scenario, test cases, test data, all automated and prepared in the load simulation tool that we want to use, BUT we don’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…
Software Performance Testing Fallacies Part 2
Software Performance Testing Fallacies Continued Continuing with the previous post about software performance testing fallacies, we will take another look at common ways in which many of us are mistaken about performance testing. We will discuss some that are very common in testing, technology, and…
Software Performance Testing Fallacies Part 1
Don’t fall for these common performance testing fallacies It’s always interesting to find out the many ways in which we can be wrong. Here we want to point out the various software performance testing fallacies that we have seen that have led to the use of poor methods, which end…
Workload or Load Scenario in Performance Testing
In load tests we simulate the workload that an application will have in production, counting the concurrent users accessing the application, the tests cases that will be executed, and the frequency of executions by users, among other things. The concept of workload or load scenario…
Top 10 Factors Impacting Application Performance
What to look for when analyzing system performance “80 percent of datacenter managers said their datacenter downtime costs exceed $50,000 per hour.” –USA Today 2014 survey of 200 data centers Here’s our list of the top 10 factors impacting application performance. They may cause problems…
How to Execute a Performance Test With Fewer Problems
Executing performance tests more effectively and efficiently A thought by Scott Barber with which I fully agree reflects part of what I want to discuss here: “Only performance testing at the conclusion of system or functional testing is like ordering a diagnostic blood test after the…
How Soon is Too Soon to Carry Out Performance Tests?
Many developers do not know when to carry out performance tests for optimum results. It’s very common of them to leave performance testing for the end as an afterthought if they have enough time. In other cases, they ask around in their spare time to…
How Important is it for Performance Engineers to Understand the System Architecture?
Good performance engineers need to know what’s “under the hood” Recently, I was involved in a debate about whether it’s necessary for performance testers to understand the architecture of the system in order to become a specialist in performance/ performance testing/ performance engineering. At Abstracta, this…
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