Heap Memory In Java Applications Performance Testing
DZone
JUNE 17, 2020
Does every performance engineer need to know about how memory in Java works? To completely fine-tune the java performance bottlenecks for high performance my answer is YES.
Performance Performance Testing Testing 
Performance Testing Using Iter8
DZone
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
There are umpteen performance testing tools available in the commercial market as well as in the open-source repositories. Recently, Go-based performance testing tools are exploding in the open-source world. Based on our requirements, we can choose the best tool from the arsenal.
Join 5,000+
Insiders
Sign Up for our Newsletter
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Trending Sources
The Future of Performance Testing
Alex Podelko
AUGUST 18, 2019
Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , 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. I decided to answer multiple comments here separately.
Interviewing and Hiring Software Performance Test Professionals - Book Review
DZone
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
A few weeks ago, I reviewed The Hitchhiking Guide To Load Testing Projects: A Fun, Step-by-Step Walk-Through Guide by Leandro Melendez. It is good to see more books on the performance testing/engineering genre recently. One of my favorite books is The Art of Application Performance Testing series by Ian Molyneaux.
Removing the Roadblock to Continuous Performance Testing
DZone
AUGUST 11, 2021
Continuous performance testing makes total sense. You can’t afford to have a new feature, update, or bug fix brings you two steps forward and three steps back. The new functionality must work flawlessly — and it can’t disrupt the pre-existing functionality that users have come to rely on.
3 Performance Testing Metrics Every Tester Should Know
DZone
APRIL 3, 2020
Making sense of the average, standard deviation and percentiles in performance testing reports. There are certain performance testing metrics that are essential to understand properly in order to draw the right conclusions from your tests.
Web Performance Testing — What, Why, How of Core Web Vitals
DZone
MAY 31, 2022
A website needs to be constantly tested and optimized to be in line with Google's web and SEO guidelines. However, to tactically assess the website's performance , it needs to be measured in a well-thought-out manner. This article will learn about web performance testing and how Core Web Vitals plays a crucial and strategic part in it.
7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021
DZone
DECEMBER 28, 2020
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. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.'
Performance Testing at MongoDB
Alex Podelko
APRIL 18, 2021
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. Continuous performance testing is built on the top of Evergreen. If I missed something interesting, please let me know.]
Mobile App Performance Testing Checklist
DZone
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
That's why mobile app testing is so important — because it allows us to predict failures and avoid losses. What Is Mobile App Performance Testing? Mobile app testing is a process of testing that is conducting in a simulated test environment to ensure its functionality, convenience, usability, and quality requirements.
Mobile 
203
203 
Performance Testing vs Stress Testing vs Load Testing
DZone
MAY 8, 2020
Software Testing comprises of different testing practices such as unit testing, integration testing, UAT testing, accessibility testing, etc. Every testing practice is having its significant importance and role in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
The Three Types of Performance Testing
CSS Wizardry
OCTOBER 27, 2018
A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is. Proactive.
Istio Ambient Mesh Performance Test and Benchmarking
DZone
AUGUST 12, 2024
Istio is the most popular service mesh, but the DevOps and SREs community constantly complain about its performance. Istio Ambient is a sidecar-less approach by the Istio committee (majorly driven by SOLO.io) to improve performance. Architecturally, the Istio Ambient mesh is a great design that improves performance.
Benchmarking 247
247 
Memphis.dev Cloud Performance and Load Testing
DZone
JANUARY 24, 2024
This article presents the most recent Memphis.dev Cloud, multi-region benchmark tests conducted in December 2023, explores how to carry out performance testing, detailing hands-on methods you can apply yourself, and provides recent benchmark data for your reference. The benchmark tool we used can be found here.
Cloud 280
280 
Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality
Alex Podelko
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. What load testing tools did you use? As most things in life, by chance. What is your business model?
Open Source 223
223 
JMeter + Pepper-Box Plugin for Kafka Performance Testing to Choose or Not to Choose?
DZone
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
How to start Kafka performance testing with JMeter + Pepper-Box plugin ? Is it possible to write samplers for JMeter on your own to provide Kafka performance testing? That is why it is a great opportunity to know what approach to choose for performance test design for this system component. Pros and cons.
How To Test for Your Software’s Scalability
DZone
AUGUST 8, 2021
Several software tests can improve your digital products. Software scalability tests are imperative for any company operating in the digital market. Scalability testing and performance testing are ways to assess software capabilities. Performance testing focuses on response times and software quality.
Scalability 342
342 
Ten Things You Should Learn Before Learning About Performance Testing
DZone
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
So, you want to learn about performance testing and progress towards performance engineering or DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering. Jumping directly into performance testing might be overwhelming. I was directed to learn the tool, then the performance concepts. I do not want you to go down that route.
14 Best Performance Testing Tools and APM Solutions
DZone
AUGUST 15, 2019
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.
Can We Do Performance Testing by Selenium Web Driver?
DZone
AUGUST 16, 2021
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.
Getting Rid of Performance Testing Outliers With a New JMeter Plugin
DZone
JANUARY 24, 2021
But back to performance testing where we measure the response times of our applications. Or if you were to look at the arrival times of planes at your local airport, you would see that most planes land in a [0.10min] interval around the scheduled arrival time, but then, from time to time, a few planes may be late by 1hr or more.
Client-Side Perf Testing Using Lighthouse CI With Puppeteer
DZone
JUNE 9, 2021
Whenever we need to do performance testing, mostly it is the APIs that come to mind. Testing the performance of an application by putting load on APIs or on servers and checking out various metrics or parameters falls under server-side performance testing.
Testing 336
336 
Top 10 Mobile Performance Testing Tools in 2020
DZone
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
According to App Annie , in 2019, consumers averaged 3 hours and 40 minutes per day on mobile (up 35% from 2017), highlighting the fact that companies from all industries stand to benefit from putting mobile at the center of their digital transformation strategy.
Mobile 252
252 
In-house Tool for Performance Testing
DZone
DECEMBER 14, 2020
In the software development cycle, testing is one of the important criteria. There are many tools available in this space for testing such as Junit, Jmeter, manual, automation, and many performance testing tools. Some of these tools are third-party tools and have a cost-heavy license for the company to manage.
Why Continuous Performance Testing for Retail Apps Matters
DZone
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
The retail industry has been actively adopting digital transformation in order to provide a better user experience. According to current trends, the reliance on digital channels has been enormous, placing them at the core of all significant online retail operations.
Retail 245
245 
Modes and Modality in Performance Testing
DZone
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
When reporting summary statistics for performance test results, there's a common assumption that the data follows a central tendency. This article explores why it's crucial to check for modality of performance test results, how to detect multimodal distributions, and how to handle them. But is this always true?
Ddosify: High-performance Load Testing Tool, QAInsights
DZone
OCTOBER 28, 2021
There are over 50+ tools and solutions available in the market for performance testing your application and services. Now it is time to check out Ddosify, a high-performance load testing tool that offers free and commercial features to test web applications and services over HTTP(S), HTTP/2, and other protocols are on their way.
Testing Tools 244
244 Common Mistakes In Performance Testing
DZone
JULY 30, 2019
Performance Test Execution and Monitoring. In this article, we are highlighting a few points on what can be avoided for better performance when we test and monitor a load test. In this phase, virtual user scripts are run based on the number of concurrent users and workload specified in the non-functional test plan.
Salesforce Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide
DZone
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
One of the most important aspects of optimizing Salesforce is performance testing. Performance testing is the process of testing a software application under load to identify any performance bottlenecks or issues.
Load Testing Shiny Apps
DZone
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
But, performance testing is a little tricky. If you are working on Shiny apps performance testing, then this blog article is for you. This blog article explains load testing shiny apps using shinyloadtest package. Shiny from R Studio helps to build interactive web applications from R. What Is Shiny?
Testing 276
276 
Instrumenting Our Frontend Test Suite (.And Fixing What We Found)
DZone
AUGUST 29, 2021
In this blog post, we’ll examine one such case where we use the Sentry JavaScript SDK to instrument Jest (which runs our frontend test suite) and how we addressed the issues that we found. We have high-level metrics for how well (or not) our CI is performing.
Testing 335
335 
Client-Side Performance Testing
DZone
JANUARY 14, 2020
Find out more about client-side performance! Client-Side Performance Testing Importance and Introduction. If you're worried about the performance of your web application, you need to test and analyze not only with what happens on the server but also with what happens in the browser.
How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale
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). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?
Engineering 212
212 
The Biggest Performance Testing Obstacles
DZone
AUGUST 13, 2019
Performance testing is a crucial part of the development process, but it is also one of the most overlooked steps in a development cycle. Not many developers are interested in doing rigorous testing on their codes to see how they perform under heavy load.
Step by Step Guide for Performance Testing With Gatling
DZone
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Gatling is a quite famous and powerful open-source tool for performance/load testing and provides integration with CICD tools like Jenkins. It offers great reporting and an easy to use recorder and script generator.
What Is a Performance Engineer and How to Become One: Part 1
DZone
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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. and must have extensive experience in specialized skills.
Engineering 277
277 
Real Devices vs Emulators: Where Do You Test App Performance?
DZone
OCTOBER 6, 2021
When testing the performance of a native Android or iOS app, choosing the right set of devices is critical for maximizing your chances of success. In order to ship new updates of your app with confidence, you should efficiently analyze app performance during development to identify issues before they reach the end-users.
Testing 278
278 
Evolving From Performance Testing to Modern Engineering
DZone
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Performance testing stands as one of the most crucial aspects of ensuring seamless functioning of applications. As organizations strive for innovation and rapid releases, the significance of evaluating software performance throughout its lifecycle becomes increasingly paramount.
Understanding the Power of Coefficient of Variation in Software Performance Testing
DZone
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Not another figure to look at when analyzing performance test results! Most performance tools already report a bunch of them (e.g., Actually, the Coefficient of Variation (CoV) stands out as a valuable metric to prove that your application will perform reliably under various conditions. average, min, max, percentiles.),
Skills Required To Be A Perfect Performance Engineer
DZone
JULY 12, 2019
Performance testing and engineering is always a niche area with many challenging objectives across the globe. The challenge of performance testing with performance engineering is far more complex and requires one to be multi-skilled to find problems/issues/defects.
Engineering 248
248 Using Selenium, Docker, and Cloud for Performance Testing
DZone
JUNE 20, 2019
Growing up in performance engineering in the last decade, it was almost impossible to think of simulating load using a real browser because a performance engineer would need a lot of machines to simulate load using a real browser.
Are Times still Good for Load Testing?
Alex Podelko
JUNE 12, 2019
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
243 
Performance Testing of Mobile — How Is This Different?
DZone
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Do you know how to test mobile performance? Below is a quick start guide on performance testing a mobile application.
Performance Testing With JMeter
DZone
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Learn how to test your app's performance! When developing complex, high-availability software projects, performance is of key importance. We’ll map the expected bottlenecks, set up realistic scenarios on the expected load, and automate all of this so we can check the performance the whole time.
Let's personalize your content