Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).

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Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. In agile development / DevOps environments it should be interwoven with the whole development process. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform already comes with release analysis, version awareness , and Service Level Objective (SLO) support as part of the Dynatrace Cloud Automation solution , helping DevOps and SRE teams automate the delivery and operational decisions. Performance as a Self-Service (JMeter, Neotys, Locust,).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This approach supports innovation, ambitious SLOs, DevOps scalability, and competitiveness. Quality gates after load/performance testing Teams can use quality gates to evaluate performance metrics. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing. Adjustments must be made accordingly.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

During the recent pandemic, organizations that lack processes and systems to scale and adapt to remote workforces and increased online shopping are feeling the pressure even more. What do you see as the biggest challenge for performance and reliability? Rethinking the process means digital transformation.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dynatrace information events provide context about what’s happening to an application by providing additional details for Dynatrace for deployments, configuration changes, or testing activity. This information speeds up triage by adding context to what is happening with the application by DevOps Teams. Performance test is run.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, such as the Log4Shell incident in 2021, allow attackers to run malicious code on a remote system without requiring authentication or user interaction.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

This guest blog is authored by Raphael Pionke , DevOps Engineer at T-Systems MMS. Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. T-Systems MMS provides a modern white box testing approach to validating release readiness for complex cloud architectures.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2020

As highly distributed apps become more complex, developers need to ensure their systems are as user-friendly, secure, and scalable as possible. Application performance engineering is an essential practice for any DevOps team, allowing developers across departments to stay agile and efficient.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In my previous article about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , I defined CI/CD and explained how these practices work together to help DevOps teams deliver quality software faster. Mean time to recovery (MTTR) is the time it takes for a system to roll back updates. Dynatrace news.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 24, 2017

The article doesn’t concentrate on automated regression testing (which would be discussed here later) and perhaps quite a lot of other topics – but it is not supposed to be a comprehensive textbook on the topic. We, of course, have a lot of consultants who specialize on setting agile / DevOps / Continuous Integration / etc.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

performance test) when the application reaches a stable throughput without violating response time constraints. Akamas is comparing data across different experiments to identify the optimal configuration of your system. Automation is the key to optimizing our systems. via Cloud APIs or plain simple SSH).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Robert allowed me to take a couple of screenshots from their Dynatrace environment and with that, in this blog I try to explain how Dynatrace gives them MaaSS for Developers, Operators, DevOps as well as Business. Dynatrace’s Response Time Hotspot Analysis automates the hotspot detection in highly distributed systems.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Computing System Congestion Management Using Exponential Smoothing Forecasting by James Brady, State of Nevada. – System performance management is an important topic – and James is going to share a practical method for it. – Performance engineering as it done at Alibaba – which emerging as a major cloud provider.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Performance testing tools are becoming more and more critical for accurately predicting system capacity and building quality software. Keep reading and find out our TOP 10 best Performance Testing Tools, including open-source platforms and proprietary testing tools.

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Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Understanding the market and this massive growth in applications, having a modern performance testing platform will ensure you can test streaming, API-based, and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types in DevOps friendly way.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Functional and non-functional testing are the two types of software testing. There are various types of functional testing, that are as below: Unit Testing. Integration Testing. System Testing. Regression Testing. Smoke Testing. Sanity Testing. Acceptance Testing.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Benchmark Objective The primary objective of this benchmark is to measure and compare PostgreSQL’s performance on ScaleGrid and AWS RDS, analyzing how each platform scales under different PostgreSQL versions. It simulates high-concurrency environments, making it a go-to for performance testing of PostgreSQL across cloud platforms.

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Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Non-functional testing focuses on user expectations, whereas functional testing is to do with user requirements. Non-functional testing examines how a system operates rather than looking at specific functions or behaviors. Apart from these necessary tests, there is much more to QA when assessing a new feature.

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InfoQ

JUNE 9, 2021

The PDCA (plan-do-check-act) framework can be used to outline the performance, availability, and monitoring to enable teams to ensure performant and highly available applications. These include infrastructure design and setup, application architecture and design, coding, performance testing, and application monitoring.

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. Challenges of On-Premise Testing.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

For about a decade now in the world of Agile where quick and frequent releases are the main goal, DevOps has just been the right solution which let teams automate all redundant development as well as Ops related tasks leading up to a release. DevTestOps is a combination of DevOps and Continuous Testing. What is DevTestOps?

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Interestingly, Xcode provides a testing framework called XCTest to write unit tests, performance tests, and UI tests. The test cases are defined using the primary class – XCTestCase, while the test cases are managed and executed using the abstract base class – XCTest. Operating System.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Most software delivery teams are already adopting automated tools and DevOps methodologies for shifting unit, functional, regression and performance testing left as far as they can in the software pipeline. Continuously deploying new releases at 100X or 1000X speed is a DevOps state of flow all organizations strive for.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Therefore, effective and efficient mobile application testing is a must for developers, testers, and users. Variations while performing Mobile Application Testing. With such a huge spectrum of device types, testing becomes a huge task, because we do not want to lose any user due to the bad quality of testing.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

In all honesty, it wasn’t always practical or simple, but with codeless test automation – test automation that does not require learning to code – testers can now focus on what’s crucial: shipping efficient products. Let’s take a look at some of the best advantages of using codeless test automation tools.

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Apica

AUGUST 12, 2020

We have heard and continue to hear from enterprise DevOps teams that they want their testing and monitoring to “Shift Left.” Additionally, many operational groups would like to be able to leverage functional testing scripts into production, saving hundreds, and potentially 1000’s of hours of rescripting time annually.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Therefore, performance testing has become a fundamental part of the development chain and the demand is still growing. Performance testing platforms provide a broad range of load simulation methods such as HTTP, headless, and real browser-based. Performance Test Types. Performance Test Types.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables?

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

With the advent of agile and DevOps culture, we’re already embracing digital transformation. If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. that you’d like to perform tests on. Picture credit: Mabl.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

Owing to the abundance of apps and websites in the market, an average user has several choices, and to ensure the user consumes your product, you’ll have to craft products that are compatible with their devices that run on various operating systems. that you’d like to perform tests on. Picture credit: Leapwork.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Cross Browser Testing is the process of verifying the compatibility of your application across multiple web browsers by shipping the product to function accurately across various web browsers, devices and platforms. Need for Cross Browser Testing. In manual cross-browser testing, testers create test cases(e.g.

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