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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

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. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it.

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Can We Do Performance Testing by Selenium Web Driver?

DZone

There are certain technological combinations that can work wonders for a project, but, on the contrary, there will be scenarios where if the proper strategic analysis is not being done in order to measure the outcome of such combinations, then it can prove to be a real hassle.

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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. New Technologies (this post). Often it is the only option for component performance testing. – Cloud. – Agile.

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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. How did you get into performance engineering? Most jobs I was offered were related to older technologies like Prolog/Cobol. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too.

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What Is a Performance Engineer and How to Become One: Part 1

DZone

Nowadays, many performance testers with many years of experience in IT have a lot of confusion and are still confused about the technologies they worked with and were used in their projects for years. and must have extensive experience in specialized skills.

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Top 10 Reasons Why We Should Invest in Performance Testing

DZone

The world is moving fast with many modern technologies, and this has eventually increased the need for having powerful and high-performing applications. Thus, to avoid such bottlenecks, performance testing is a major need. Thus, it is crucial to practice performance testing to avoid crashes and performance bugs.