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Spotlight on the Top 3 Performance Test Types
Performance testing is meanwhile a fundamental step in many software development projects. Test early and repeat often is also true for...
May 14, 20171 min read


Guideline for Choosing the Optimal User Simulation Approach
Testing and Monitoring platforms provide a broad range of user simulation methods such as protocol, headless, and real browser-based. In...
May 7, 20173 min read


The need for Continuous Performance Optimization
Nowadays, information technology is at the heart of every business. Outages or slowdowns in critical software components often impacts...
Apr 23, 20172 min read


Performance Testing in a Dynamic World
In many fields such as finance, engineering or politics there are groundbreaking changes ongoing. However, our human skill to adapt to...
Apr 16, 20172 min read


Why Monitoring is essential in DevOps
Time to market is more important than ever before because the competition is on the rise. Successful retailers are deploying every 12...
Mar 28, 20172 min read


Turn the Ship around; From Firefighting to Performance Driven
Jumping from one performance hotspot to the next can be very frustrating because there is never enough time to eliminate the issues....
Mar 16, 20172 min read


Part 1 – Introducing a Performance Engineering Maturity Model
Speed is everything, but not everything is speed! Nobody enjoys slow loading or erroneous applications, and bad user experience has...
Feb 7, 20172 min read


Why we need a Next Generation Technical Testing Platform
Our testing tool chain is quite impressive. Some are very specific, and others support a broad range of technologies and testing...
Jan 16, 20171 min read


Web 2.0 Application Performance Testing
But, what is the magic behind Web2.0 applications? Just to mention a few, Facebook, Amazon or Zalando are successful examples of how...
Dec 26, 20161 min read


What Wikipedia can’t tell you about Performance Testing in Production
Certainly, a realistic production test setting is not for free. Due to the high costs involved, some companies skip real user load...
Dec 20, 20162 min read


The Best Ways to determine Load Patterns
As a performance engineer, I have been engaged in many performance testing projects. You can imagine that I experienced all kinds of...
Nov 29, 20162 min read


The 3 User Experience Antipatterns
The digital transformation is ongoing, and user experience will become more important than ever before. Obviously, there are many...
Nov 24, 20162 min read


Mobile performance excellence
Companies are increasingly investing in mobile applications because smartphones and tablets have become fundamental in our daily lives....
Nov 22, 20161 min read


Lifecycle Performance Engineering
Mobile or web-based applications are playing a vital role in our daily life. Checking emails, sending a message to our loved ones or...
Nov 20, 20161 min read


NFR Testing should not be an afterthought
However, make testing of non-functional requirements, namely, security and performance testing, part of your development pipeline. Also,...
Nov 13, 20161 min read


A Performance Engineer’s Toolbox
According to a performance research from DoubleClick , slow loading sites often results in reduced revenue. Therefore, successful...
Nov 3, 20161 min read


There are few things more frustrating than a slow application
Have you ever been affected by a slow loading or not responding application? According to recent studies a typical user is willing to...
Oct 27, 20161 min read


Why you should combine Performance and Security Testing
Short turnaround cycles are more important than ever before. New business requirements must be implemented within weeks to address...
Oct 25, 20161 min read


Pitfalls in Performance Engineering
For those hoping that reaching a satisfying user experience is a cakewalk, there is the bad news, reliable and responsive applications...
Oct 20, 20161 min read


Meaningful Performance Requirements
Slow response It’s a common practice that the functionality is precisely specified. Requirement specialists outline use cases from a...
Oct 13, 20162 min read
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