Tag: Load Testing

This is the fifth #BestPractices blog post of a series, by Kevin Parker. Excellent application performance and reliability is crucial in today’s software-dependent business environment. That’s why load testing — simulating realistic user loads to assess application performance — is a cornerstone of quality assurance. However, load testing can be resource-intensive, both in terms of time

The High Bar Set for Load Testing Today What are the criteria for a capable load testing tool that meets the needs of an app today, living in the Cloud, built with a microservices architecture, linking to external resource?  What should it include to ensure your dev team delivers a reliable, high-performance app that meets

For the better part of 20 years, the e-commerce QA test industry has known that every one-second delay in response, they can lose up to half the page audience. Not because the user bought somewhere else, but because they became distracted. Today’s distractions are probably much higher than they were when those original studies were

Thanks to Amazon Web Services, driven by Appvance IQ (AIQ), you can save 99% on your mobile load tests. Before explaining how, first some context. Amazon has disrupted industry after industry and is now disrupting mobile device testing. AWS Device Farm, their mobile device cloud, uses immense scale to lower the cost of testing mobile

Load and performance testing is something you can’t crowdsource, or shouldn’t anyway. After all, crowdsourced load testing would look a lot like DDoS, which is something SecOps wouldn’t appreciate. Nope, load testing is only feasible via automation, as Mercury Interactive showed twenty years ago with LoadRunner.   But, what about now? Well, Jeff Bezos made