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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014.

Testing 243
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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

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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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

These issues can arise from errors in the code, insufficient testing, or unforeseen interactions among software components. A poorly tested feature release leads to incompatibility issues, resulting in downtime for users. A poorly tested feature release leads to incompatibility issues, resulting in downtime for users.

Software 290
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Follow up on the Test Automation Discussion – Bringing in the Performance View

Alex Podelko

There was a rather heated discussion around A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing by James Bach and Michael Bolton (referred below as the article and the authors – other references would be explicit). and Open letter to “CDT Test Automation” reviewers as well as in many other different places.

Testing 140
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Shift left vs shift-right: A DevOps mystery solved

Dynatrace

On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. Shift-left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the software development process, thus the process of shifting to the “left” side of the DevOps lifecycle.

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Shift left vs shift-right: A DevOps mystery solved

Dynatrace

On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. Shift-left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the software development process, thus the process of shifting to the “left” side of the DevOps lifecycle.

DevOps 246
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Master Apache JMeter. From Load Testing to DevOps

Alex Podelko

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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