How Ready are you for Heavy Load on Your Website?
Load testing is an important subset of any overall performance management strategy. It is a technical investigation done to determine the scalability, speed, and/or stability characteristics of the...
View ArticleSecrets of Effective Performance Analysis
Successful performance analysis depends on the ability to identify bottlenecks in the application or system infrastructure. A bottleneck could be caused by any object on a page that is taking longer...
View ArticleUsing Twitter as an Emergency Broadcast Network [Infographic]
We have seen it more often than not lately, and many of us have been taking it for granted: Twitter as the place to go for rapid communication during an emergency. Here in the Boston area, we saw the...
View ArticleWebLoadUI Pro Made a Scene and This Guy Won a Kindle Fire
We’ve had so much going on here at SmartBear that we haven’t had a chance to share with you our latest exciting release. Aligning its launch with the StarEast software testing conference on May 1st in...
View ArticleThe Feature That Made All the Difference for One Master Tester
At SmartBear, we create software for software developers and testers. It’s definitely an interesting space to work. Unlike most software companies, our customers are not lay people who don’t really...
View ArticleLame Excuses for Not Load Testing: A Cautionary Tale
We all know the phrases. They are trite and lifeless, but still we use them: “I had a bad feeling that day, and I should’ve listened to it” “I had been dreaming all week of it!” “It was on my list of...
View ArticleTools of the Mad (Load Testing) Scientist – How to Take Over the World
I often met with the Doctor in his very unassuming lab off of Route 128 on the North Shore of Massachusetts. I frequently bribed him with homemade cookies in order to get him to lower his guarded...
View ArticleTools of the Mad (LoadTesting) Scientist – Creating Scary Load Test Profiles
As I mentioned in my last post, I often stop by to see the mad load-testing Doctor at his very unassuming lab when I had some extra time, and when I had some extra homemade cookies with which to bribe...
View ArticleThe Ins and Outs of Load Testing: APIs and Web Applications [Video]
I’m in the process of writing a new eBook on load testing at the level of APIs vs. Web applications. I recently spoke with Niclas Reimertz, Managing Director of SmartBear Sweden and co-founder of...
View ArticleTools of the Mad (LoadTesting) Scientist – Tapping the External Powers
One day recently I had been feeling a little down, and thought I would again stop by and see my old friend the Mad Load Testing Doctor at his very unassuming lab, hoping he could cheer me up with his...
View ArticleAdvancing Network and Security Performance
While server virtualization has actually been available for more than a decade, many IT professionals still refer to it as a relatively new technology. The comfort and familiarity of a world made up of...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks
Benchmarks can reveal the truth – well, some of the truth – about technologies. A well-constructed benchmark can provide a way to compare performance, reliability and other metrics that can make a...
View ArticleTools of the Mad (Load Testing) Scientist – Minding the Minions
I tried to stop by and see the mad load testing doctor at his very unassuming lab a few times in the last few days, armed with fresh baked goods on each occasion, but his lab had been shuttered tight...
View ArticleScott Barber Schools the Masses on Load Testing API Web Apps
Scott Barber, Chief Technologist, President and CEO of PerfTestPlus, is one of the world’s most prominent thought-leaders in the area of software system performance testing. A long time performance and...
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