Nov 21, 2016 | Business of Testing, Continuous Delivery, Development, Funtional, Load, Performance, Process, QA, RBCS, Testing
It starts with a bug- an invisible bug that turns one user’s experience into a long and painful waiting game that usually ends badly. If only they had called tin the Performance Police. The deadline’s Friday. This Friday. That’s when this baby goes live; when the...
Mar 13, 2014 | Performance, Podcast, STP Radio, Testing
Mark Tomlinson host of PerfBytes, Performance Tester, Speaker, and all around Testing guru talks about the similarities of music and testing. Testing and music have many common attributes and it is fun to listen to Mark make the comparison! Mark talks about...
Mar 1, 2013 | Performance, Testing
In a previous article, I provided details on the top two performance landmines to be aware – Size and Deployment Issues – as well as details on how best to avoid them. In regards to Size, bigger pages inevitably take longer to load. You don’t want to...
Feb 15, 2013 | Performance, Testing
Performance is a critical business issue. Research has shown that 75% of users will go to a competitor if your web performance is poor. Sites often bog down or fail during peak traffic times, exactly when they need to perform at their best. There are only a few...
Dec 19, 2012 | Load, Performance, Software Test & QA Magazine, Testing
“The Cloud” according to the marketing types, is the greatest thing since the invention of bread, surely able to solve all of our needs, whether technology-related or not. While the hype for the cloud might be frequently and frustratingly overstated and...
Dec 19, 2012 | Performance, Testing, Tools
While each kind of performance testing may have different goals and test designs, in most cases they use the same approach: applying multi-user synthetic workload to the system. The term ‘load testing’ is used further in this article because, by...
Jul 12, 2012 | Leadership, Load, Performance, Testing, Testing Career
Have you ever heard of the New York Times? How about iVillage, a division of NBC Universal? You have, eh? We suspected you might. It turns out these large companies have websites that serve readers from around the world with constantly changing content, pulling data...
Jul 5, 2012 | Performance, Security Testing, Testing
If you’re interested in security testing web applications, these tips will help a non-security tester to consider some techniques to get started. The world of security testing is perhaps the most important, yet it’s often the most neglected aspect to testing. A lack...
May 4, 2012 | Load, Performance, Testing
This article is based on experiences and research, giving you an insight into “the why” of our performance testing data-analyzing process and the possible outcomes. You Have Performance Testing Results! What now? Performance Testing, one of the testing...
Jan 5, 2012 | Performance, Process, Test Plans, Testing
This is Part 2, didn’t read Part 1 – See it here. IEEE Software Engineering Book of Knowledge defines four stages or requirements1: Elicitation: Identifying sources and collecting requirements. Analysis: Classifying, elaborating, and negotiating...
Dec 6, 2011 | Performance, Testing
In my last article, I wrote about the paradigm shift in web application architecture and why performance testers have to re-think their strategy around testing rich internet applications (RIA) for performance. Web application development processes and user...
Nov 29, 2011 | Performance, Process, Testing
Our organization recently implemented Sharepoint 2010. During testing, functional users noticed that the application “looked different” or rendered information that was impossible to read on different browsers. The test team was called in to help after the...
