Debugging in Production with OverOps
OverOps, the self-proclaimed “God mode for production code” We are happy to share a new tool that we are excited about here at Abstracta, OverOps! Why? Well, simply put, it makes it easy to see where, when, and why your code breaks in production. My…
Alerts in New Relic Synthetics: Check Website Health From Different Parts of the World
Use the tool, Synthetics, for easy website health monitoring New Relic is a company that offers many different tools, perhaps best known for its application performance monitoring (APM). At least that’s what I know it best for since we often use this tool when we…
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…
To Reopen, or Not to Reopen, That is the Question
Reopening a bug in Mantis Bug Tracker Recently, we published a blog post about a possible bug life cycle for which we received a lot of questions and comments that were very interesting to consider. Among the comments was this recurring question: Why didn’t you…
Migrating from TestLink to JAMA
Guest post by Juan Techera, QA Manager for Verifone Recently, our test team at Verifone was challenged for the first time with how to move thousands of test cases and results from TestLink to JAMA. There’s a lack of documentation and public information about how to handle this…
[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…
The Ultimate List of 100 Software Testing Quotes
The Best Software Testing Quotes on the Web Sometimes a metaphor says it best. From humorous to bluntly insightful, here is our ultimate list of 100 software testing quotes. We’ve included quotes from figures like Angie Jones and Michael Bolton on topics spanning everything from finding bugs…
White Paper: 10 Mistakes Companies Make When Outsourcing Software Testing
Outsourcing Software Testing Do’s and Don’ts With software testing accounting for 35% of IT budgets in 2015 (according to the World Quality report 2015-2016), it’s clear that managers are looking to maximize their test spend, making the most of each dollar by testing as efficiently and…
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…
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…
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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