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Removing the Roadblock to Continuous Performance Testing

DZone

Continuous performance testing makes total sense. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy to break something when different teams are evolving different components (built on many different architectures) at different speeds, all in parallel. But users and stakeholders don’t care that delivering good software is hard.

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7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

DZone

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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14 Best Performance Testing Tools and APM Solutions

DZone

With All of the Free and Enterprise Tools Available for Performance Testing, There’s No Excuse for Having a System Failure. Performance tests reveal how a system behaves and responds during various situations. In terms of performance, we wish to achieve three main goals: speed, scalability, and stability.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Quality gates after load/performance testing Teams can use quality gates to evaluate performance metrics. Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands.

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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. We do a lot of 1-hour sessions with our customers to get them up to speed and that usually enough time to have a first basic test on their application. The base idea is that everything you do should be intuitive.

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Types Of Performance Testing and When to Use Them

DZone

To ensure that users get high-performing software that works seamlessly under all load conditions, performance testing is necessary. This test helps to measure the speed, scalability, reliability, and stability of software under varying loads, thus it ensures stable performance. What Is Performance Testing?

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Karate Framework: Let's Make API Tests Green Again

DZone

In order to best describe it, here’s a pretty descriptive excerpt from the official source: Karate Framework is the only open-source tool to combine API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers.

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