Interestingly, most businesses realize the enormous benefits of performance testing only when a critical reliability issue hits their production environment. Now, it's no longer a question of what type of application you're developing or what budget you have. Plenty of tools are available—and thanks to the open-source initiative—we can find some effective performance-testing products for free! Validation of performance requirements must become a fundamental task for every com

The pace of development, adding new features, and taking business time precedence over everything can lead to rapid changes being pushed...

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Our IT world is getting increasingly complex, and the chances are that we will see more outdates in the future. But, unfortunately, the...

Keeping awareness for load and performance testing on a consistently high level can be difficult. Leadership is willing to invest several months after severe production issues occurred but their motivation declines the more time goes by. You might see cut's in your performance engineering budget if the speed and reliability of your apps are too long too good. Well, you could introduce performance problems and deploy them on production to get the attention back, but this is mo

The scenario is very well known. You've prepare your load and performance tests for several days, execute the test, and realize that...

Speed is ruling the world. Time to market and how fast a website loads on any device is getting more critical, especially for the...

Businesses across the bench have integrated load and performance testing into their development chain because they can no longer afford...

So many businesses are entirely dependent on click rates. Therefore, whenever abandonment rates go up, it hurts their financial revenue....

Recently a significant reliability issue has affected a big player in Minnesota. This organization has eventually overlooked quality...

It's great to see that the awareness for application performance is growing, but we must keep in mind that a successful load and...

Performance is our most important feature. If services are not responding or pages are loading slowly we become frustrated. Research has...

Lessons learned in a 25 K user load testing project powered by open source.

As a performance engineer, I have been engaged in many performance testing projects. You can imagine that I experienced all kinds of...

In one of my past projects, I led a non-functional testing stream and had to plan performance tests for 70 applications. My testing team...