Reach Higher Scalability from Your Web Applications
When the performance of a web application starts to degrade, often IT managers jump to the conclusion that more hardware is required. This increased infrastructure can be expensive and may not even...
View ArticleHow to Test Application Throughput: Keep It Real
Often we see the workload to a web application measured by throughput. It’s a way of quantifying the volume of requests/responses in relation to time. Transactions per second or TPS is the most common...
View ArticleGUI Versus Script: Is This Old Load Testing Debate Now Over?
Some testers dismiss the GUI driven approach as being too limited for complicated behaviors. Old school testers insist on only utilizing program-based scripts because past experience has led them to...
View ArticleLoad Testing in Clustered Environments
Load and performance testing web applications will allow you to determine whether or not your deployment will require a clustered environment. When the test results show that the current throughput is...
View ArticleEleven Tips to Becoming a Better Performance Engineer
The ability to conduct effective performance testing has become a highly desired skillset within the IT industry. Unfortunately, these highly sought-after skills are consistently in short supply....
View ArticleMobile Performance Testing: Demystified
How does the approach to performance / load testing extranet mobile applications change from testing other RIAs? In some ways, not much. Yes, the user activity for every mobile application will be...
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