KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? To answer all these questions we need exhaustive mobile testing in place. Functional Testing.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

So how do the testing community ensure that this love for iPhone and iOS apps grows manifolds with time? With quality testing and automation, we can ensure the iPhone provides the best experience to its loyal users. In this article, we will be looking at mobile testing for iOS. Unit Testing.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

Use performance budgets to fight regression Page bloat happens when people stop paying attention. Integrating performance testing into your CI/CD process is a great way to fight regression, especially if you combine this with creating performance budgets. Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

It’s not just a simple tweak you can turn on/off; it’s a long-time process that touches almost every single item in your stack, including both hardware and software sides of the system. Application scalability is the potential of an application to grow in time, being able to efficiently handle more and more requests per minute (RPM).

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Held back by budget and infrastructure restrictions, some organizations have been forced to settle for load tests that paint an incomplete picture. Setting Up the Test. Creating a Script.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. ” With the advent of new technologies and new software being released every day, software testing is gaining more strength and accolades.

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Testsigma

JULY 25, 2020

Continuous Testing is the testing strategy to fast-track the testing required for achieving rapid software development using Agile and DevOps methodologies. What is Continuous Testing? Continuous Testing is the process of testing at all stages of software development – one after the other – without any human intervention.

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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. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

During the entire SDLC phase, there are various kinds of testing performed at different stages. Each stage of testing has different objectives to fulfil. The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing.

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Apica

AUGUST 12, 2020

One of the best conversations from the event was a discussion on the five challenges enterprises need to know about testing and monitoring. Below are the five challenges we discussed regarding testing and monitoring. Finally, scalability regarding effectively consuming results from testing. Scalability.

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Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Load testing is a form of non-functional testing that is carried out to understand the behaviour of an application under a specific user load. Why Load Testing? On that day, they realized the importance of testing for potential load on the server. Yes, loading testing is mighty important! Load Testing Parameters.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences. There are six metrics used to create the overall performance score. that allows for testing a minimum of two devices; a fast desktop and a low-mid range mobile phone.

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Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Taking into account the previous considerations, performance requirements were set as 1000 faceted navigation requests/second per typical hardware blade. On the one hand, maintenance node provides potentially resource-consuming indexing processes with dedicated hardware capacities. Pattern: Probabilistic Test.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. Jumping too quickly to blaming hardware or build tools is a classic mistake, but in this case the mistake was that we weren’t thinking big enough. I decided it was time to try science.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Our biggest achievements this year have centred on making it easier for you to: Gather more meaningful real user monitoring (RUM) data Get actionable insights from Core Web Vitals Simplify your synthetic testing Get expert performance coaching when and how you need it Keep reading to learn more.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Amazon is a good example of a site that serves large, fast pages, as you can see in this recent look at our Retail Page Speed Benchmarks : In the waterfall chart for this test run , you can see why the Amazon home page ranks fastest for Start Render. How quickly do they show up? Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All your JMeter results in Dynatrace for better performance engineering. Christian Inzko , Performance Engineer out of our Klagenfurt Lab, is running a lot of performance tests to validate performance and scalability of our Dynatrace clusters. Goal: sending metrics to Dynatrace. Raspberry Pi Model 3 B.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Now you have something measurable to test against.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates. Now you have something measurable to test against. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If you develop something then you own the lifecycle of that product, which means you would work with QA, DevOps to ensure it’s tested/deployed. We use a variant of git-flow, for every ticket, we clone the repo and we run automation tests on every merge request. How do you test your system? How you analyze performance?

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