Nov 18, 2011 | Featured, Performance
There are two dangerous practices that are rampant in performance testing right now – shrinking or removing think times and extrapolation of test results. Collectively we need to work to put an end to these practices and start testing more realistically to...
Oct 30, 2011 | Load, Performance, Testing
If you’re a software tester or quality assurance (QA) professional for any business with a heavy stake in the holiday season – i.e. a retail, hotel, airline, car rental or parcel shipping company – you know that early, thorough planning is essential to ensuring your...
Oct 6, 2011 | Performance, Testing
Modern browsers are turning into miniature operating systems. They can multi-task browsing processes, allocate and manage memory, collect garbage and much more. They are capable of running complex web applications on their own with minimal server interaction. There is...
Jun 15, 2011 | Performance, Process, Test Plans, Testing
Performance Requirements: What is the Problem? At first glance, the subject of performance requirements looks simple enough. Almost every book about performance has a few pages about performance requirements. Quite often a performance requirements section can be found...
Apr 12, 2011 | Performance, Process, Testing
There are many things that a tester has to do while testing the code and performing white-box testing. For instance, a tester will need to read, understand and analyze the code; find code optimization bugs and coding standards related to bugs; find hardcoded fixes;...
Dec 20, 2010 | Performance, STP Community, Testing
A U.S. Army Officer turned performance tester, Scott Barber is probably best known as the co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications by Microsoft Press. In the 11 years since Scott became a self-proclaimed “career tester of software systems”...
Nov 1, 2008 | Automation, Load, Performance, Process, QA, Testing, Tools
This article originally posted November, 2008 Party Time. Excellent. Take a Trip Backstage to Hang With 2008’s Test-Tool Heroes (We’re Not Worthy!) E x-squeeze me! OK, pop quiz: In 2006, did you vote for Mercury Interactive as your starring supplier of testing tools?...
Nov 1, 2005 | Data Warehouse, Performance, Testing
11/1/2005 How to Get Your Relational Database Up to Speed Right Out of the Gate The overall speed of an application will often depend on how fast the database runs. Most mission-critical business applications have at their core a relational database that maintains key...
May 1, 2005 | Automation, Mobile, Performance, Testing, Tools
The Choices This Year Look A Lot Like Last Year’s Winners, With LoadRunner Again Leading the Pack In 2006, you voted Mercury Interactive as your favorite supplier of testing tools, lavishing high praise on LoadRunner, QuickTest Professional and TestDirector for...
May 1, 2005 | Performance, Testing
When You’re Out to Fix Bottlenecks, Be Sure You’re Able to Distinguish Them From System Failures and Slow Spots So you found an odd pattern in your scatter chart that appears to be a bottleneck. What do you do now? How do you gather enough information to...
