Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

According to recent research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), generative AI will change software development activities, from quality assurance to debugging to CI/CD pipeline configuration. On the whole, survey respondents view AI as a way to accelerate software development and to improve software quality.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This $5 billion mistake could have been avoided with proper testing and quality assurance. The ramifications of the CrowdStrike outage showcase the difficulties in software development today. Therefore, it is crucial to have efficient testing strategies in place.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you are living in the same world as I am, you must have heard the latest coding buzzer termed “ microservices ”—a lifeline for developers and enterprise-scale businesses. Enough to make the business more scalable in a fly-by paralleling development, testing, and maintenance across various independent teams.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Once you develop best practices and are confident with your consumption patterns, you can switch to usage-based pricing to maximize the value of your DPS investment. This pricing model is part of our plan to introduce new features that help customers align the right pricing strategies to their use cases.

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DZone

MARCH 25, 2022

Talking about development these days, streamlining the entire software development lifecycle turns out to be an extreme hustle. This means a product made with sacrifices on the quality aspect often turns out to be a shortsighted delivery strategy that ends up business and developers with the havoc of long-term troubles.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Organizations need to prepare for both expected and unexpected demand, not only for the services that their customers and users rely on today but for the services being developed for tomorrow,” he wrote in a blog on Black Friday traffic. The company did a postmortem on its monitoring strategy and realized it came up short.

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DZone

JANUARY 29, 2019

Moreover, the enterprises are rapidly migrating or developing and rolling out their IoT-enabled apps into the mobile app market. Adoption of IoT (Internet of Things) is increasing across various industries, in government sectors, and in consumers’ day-to-day life.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2020

With massive competition in the market, every company wants to employ a faster go-to-market strategy. This puts a lot of pressure on both the development and testing teams. As not only the development cycle has to be faster, but you also need to make sure that testing efforts keep up so that the end product is of high quality.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Dynatrace news. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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DZone

MAY 17, 2019

Unit testing is a well-known practice, but there's lots of room for improvement! In this post, the most effective unit testing best practices, including approaches for maximizing your automation tools along the way. We will also discuss code coverage, mocking dependencies, and overall testing strategies.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the rate at which digital threats continue to develop, enhancing security measures is very important to protect vulnerable data and infrastructure. This defense is referred to as penetration testing. Through this strategy, organizations can minimize risks and be protected against possible threats.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Having laid the foundation during the deployment stage, we’ll now explore the benefits of Dynatrace visibility and orchestration during the testing phase. T he testing stage plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of newly built code through the execution of automated test cases.

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DZone

JULY 24, 2020

Does your development team feel stuck when it comes to knowing what specific things to focus on to improve your software testing and quality management? Need to figure out how to fill in the gaps and improve efficiency and results?

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DZone

JUNE 24, 2019

Unit testing is a well-known practice, but there's lots of room for improvement! In this post, the most effective unit testing best practices, including approaches for maximizing your automation tools along the way. We will also discuss code coverage, mocking dependencies, and overall testing strategies.

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DZone

MAY 8, 2020

Software Testing comprises of different testing practices such as unit testing, integration testing, UAT testing, accessibility testing, etc. Every testing practice is having its significant importance and role in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Weve seen this across dozens of companies, and the teams that break out of this trap all adopt some version of Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD), where testing, monitoring, and evaluation drive every decision from the start. Were also betting that this will be a time of software development flourishing. The way out?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries. We knew we could test the same query with the same inputs and consistently expect the same results.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. I decided to answer multiple comments here separately.

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DZone

AUGUST 1, 2023

Hey there, fellow developers! Debugging is an essential part of our software development journey, and let's be real, it can be both challenging and rewarding. In this article, I want to take you on a debugging adventure where we'll explore some practical and time-tested approaches to tackle those pesky bugs head-on.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. This takes the form of developers assessing the performance impact of every piece of work they do as they’re doing it.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But as many developers and architects can attest, scalability often comes with its own unique set of challenges. We'll explore common strategies that you can weave into any codebase, be it front end or back end, regardless of the language you're working with.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

This blog will suggest five areas to consider and questions to ask when evaluating your existing vendors and their risk management strategies. Development and QA process Assessing a vendor’s testing and quality assurance (QA) capabilities reveals their approach and commitment to validating changes and preventing new issues.

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DZone

MAY 19, 2022

And with that shift putting an emphasis on faster cycles of development for software products, DevOps and Agile methodologies are now essential for any business looking to succeed with a meaningful digital transformation initiative.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

The monolith allowed for rapid development and quick changes while the knowledge of the space was non-existent. At one point, more than 30 developers were working on it, and it had well over 300 database tables. One of the main advantages we also saw in having an app with clear boundaries is our testing strategy?—?the

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

By implementing these strategies, organizations can minimize the impact of potential failures and ensure a smoother transition for users. Protect customers with software development lifecycle integrations Software testing is critical, yet issues can still make it into production that negatively impact the customer experience.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In a previous post , we saw how new needs arise in the field of testing derived from the evolution of application architectures. We talked about how over the years we have gone from developing applications based on a monolithic architecture to applications based on (micro) services.

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DZone

JUNE 7, 2023

A/B testing involves comparing two or more variations of a webpage or user experience to determine which one performs better in achieving predefined goals. A/B testing plays a significant role in improving conversion rates, user engagement, and overall website performance. Websites are not static entities; they evolve over time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. This can result from improperly configured backups, corrupted data, or insufficient testing.

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DZone

MAY 4, 2022

That's where a test plan and test strategy can help. If you don't measure quality, you don't have any control over the testing process or any ability to anticipate the results. However, the value and purpose of the quality assurance process are not transparent without documentation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2023, over 500 million digital apps and services will be developed and deployed using cloud-native approaches. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Dynatrace has many capabilities and out-of-the-box features that support performance engineering and test.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. But I must confess I was not too fond of having to report the results to stakeholders or deal with political/personal issues related to (poor) test results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Need to catch up?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2024

At Dynatrace, we’ve implemented a thorough and industry-proven approach to developing OneAgent ® that minimizes such risks. Our approach encompasses all stages of the software development lifecycle, focusing on safeguarding OneAgent integration with your systems. Our developers double-check these tests daily.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

CI/CD is a series of interconnected processes that empower developers to build quality software through well-aligned and automated development, testing, delivery, and deployment. Together, these practices ensure better collaboration and greater efficiency for DevOps teams throughout the software development life cycle.

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Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2022

To address these challenges, organizations are adopting cloud-first strategies and cloud-native application development practices. Because cloud-native technologies are flexible and scale automatically, teams can replace manual application monitoring and testing methods to keep pace with innovation.

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