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.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Dynatrace OTel Collector Understand your applications with ease Due to a lack of contextual insights and actionable intelligence, application teams often find themselves overwhelmed by data, unable to quickly identify the root causes of performance issues. The same is true when it comes to log ingestion.

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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?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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DZone

JUNE 10, 2024

As part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), different types of testing are performed, each targeting specific elements and aspects of the software application. Among those, sanity and regression testing are two of the most important types of software testing.

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DZone

JULY 13, 2020

Connecting RPA and Test Automation. RPA and test automation recite completely similar if you haven’t been working combined with both, so how are they different? But, RPA is a step ahead approach that provides more advantageous support to test automation in different ways.

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DZone

JULY 8, 2020

Testing has always been a critical factor for delivering bug-free, reliable, and secure products. With the high competition on the market and increasing customer demands the benefits testing can bring you are huge. Let’s say you have already found the right testing team. This is only a part of the solution.

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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.

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DZone

JULY 13, 2024

Using Testcontainers has radically improved the process of working with test scenarios. Thanks to this tool, creating environments for integration tests has become simpler (see the article Isolation in Testing with Kafka ). For integration tests, Testcontainers has proven indispensable.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the last blog post of this series, we delved into how Dynatrace, functioning as a deploy-stage orchestrator, solves the challenges confronted by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) during the early of automating CI/CD processes. This slow feedback and time spent rerunning tests can hinder the overall software deployment process.

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DZone

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The test case is the first and most important step in any software testing cycle , and it is crucial to any software testing project. If something goes wrong at this stage, the impact will be amplified throughout the software testing process. But first, let's take a short look at what the Test Case is all about.

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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. We analyze a tool to make the process easier and more cost effective. About the Tool.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Enough to make the business more scalable in a fly-by paralleling development, testing, and maintenance across various independent teams. Considering how different this approach is from the conventional monolithic process, the testing strategies that apply are also different.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It is also known as web app pen-testing or security testing, which is an organized evaluation of a web application’s security to identify exposure and debility that could be exploited by malicious performers. The process involves further points:

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DZone

JANUARY 4, 2022

Over the years, the whole idea of software testing has evolved. And the evolution not only has called for modern testing strategies and tools but a detailed-oriented process with the inclusion of test methodologies.

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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? Apache Kafka is a distributed data store optimized for ingesting and processing streaming data in real-time. Agenda for This Article. Pros and cons.

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DZone

MARCH 15, 2022

Automation has become an integral part of any software development process. Organizations are relying on their fast and sleek websites and mobile apps as their primary source of revenue generation, customer interaction, transaction processing, feedback, etc. Web automation testing is transforming the whole software industry.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Wait.what is Monkey Testing? You may also like: Introduction to the World of Mobile Application Testing. What Is Monkey Testing? Android Monkey is the python-based testing script process that can be run by writing any specific python script or we can directly apply a test for the installed application using the command line.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

In the process of testing a software application, test plans and test strategies are quite crucial. A strong test plan and strategy will always prevent errors in the application. As software testers, we should be aware of these 2 phrases, as they are critical in testing software applications.

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DZone

MARCH 17, 2022

End-to-end testing, or E2E testing, is a type of performance test go-through during the cycle of mobile app development. All of the functionalities of the product are tested from one end to another to ensure that the entire application flow functions without setbacks. Vertical E2E Testing.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dynatrace container monitoring supports customers as they collect metrics, traces, logs, and other observability-enabled data to improve the health and performance of containerized applications. With VA’s heavy focus on security, the platform enables developers to incorporate security testing for applications during development. “In

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2024

When we discuss code profiling with a team of developers, they often say, "We don't have time to profile our code: that's why we have performance testers ," or, "If your application or system runs very slowly, the developers and performance testers may suggest the infra team to simply add another server to the server farm."

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DZone

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Regression testing is a software testing process executed after making modifications or upgrades to a software application and re-tests the application areas that may have been affected by the fix. It can be performed manually and automatically by running a specific set of test cases.

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DZone

JANUARY 17, 2024

Conducting regression testing within our digital ecosystems is essential for enhancing software stability, elevating user satisfaction, and optimizing costs. In times of QA software testing, automation regression processes can be enabled to autonomously identify any unexpected behaviors or regressions in the software.

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DZone

JULY 21, 2022

This software makes the different tasks easier and allows for increased efficiency and performance. Development of any software is a tedious and long process, and it undergoes a series of quality and performance tests before its release and use.

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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.

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DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The goal of Levels of Testing is to make software testing more structured and efficient, as well as to make it easier to identify all available test cases and test scenarios at a given level. All of these steps go through the software testing process's tiers of testing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team. These tests open the retail home pages from various locations across America on a consistent basis.

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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.

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2021

Automation testing is vital to the entire process of delivering a successful web product. The challenge associated with testing a web site or web app grows exponentially if it’s built for a global audience (particularly non-English audience).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

To that end, it’s important that we prevent significant performance regressions from reaching the production app. Any performance regression that makes it into a product release will degrade user experience, so the challenge is to detect and fix such regressions before they ship. What do we mean by Performance?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

Managing cloud performance is increasingly challenging for organizations that spread workloads across a greater variety of platforms. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

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DZone

AUGUST 21, 2021

The responsibility of developers keeps growing, and as mobile apps get more complex, new tools for mobile performance monitoring and testing are being born. But this process usually takes a couple of weeks.

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DZone

DECEMBER 25, 2021

What Is Mobile Testing? Mobile testing is a process of checking mobile applications - software programs running on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices - for functionality, performance, security, usability, etc. It can be carried out with manual or automated tests.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Open source automated browser and testing tool. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? Atlassian Jira.

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