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November 2020

Week of Testing Day 4: Streaming results to the cloud and stepped load profiles on k6

Nicole discusses how to stream the results of load tests run locally to the k6 Cloud and how to recreate a stepped load profile using k6, compared to a load testing tool like JMeter. Note from Nicole: I realized after this video that I was mixing `let` and `var` in this video. They have different implications on scope, and I would recommend you use `let` or `const` in your own scripts. Also, there are other ways to achieve the stepped load profile, but this is one way to do it.

Agile Software Release Checklist Manifesto

How do you manage to release often without major issues? Create a checklist for your software releases, a list of steps to blindly follow every time release a new piece of software. Here is an example of what steps your list should contain: This list can go on and on, by I would suggest that every team should have a similar checklist. This checklist should be reviewed and updated every 1-2 weeks (doesn’t matter if you do Scrum or Kanban), most likely at the team retrospective meetings.

Introducing Compute Units. How To Choose Correct Compute Power For Your Test.

Previously Loadero had the same amount of compute power assigned to each participant in every test, but applications that our customers test are different and have different demands for end user machine resources. That is why we added compute units to give our customers better flexibility in test creation. This also allows to run much larger load tests as well as optimize cost of running the tests for the applications that don’t use much compute power.

How to Record and Run Load Tests with JMeter in the Cloud Chrome Extension

It’s so easy to record a load test for your website, just add to Chrome Browser the JMeter in the Cloud Chrome Extension and you’ll be able to record and run a load in less than 60 seconds. Let’s have a deeper look how to do this. This is it, less than 60 seconds to record a load test. Now you can: More detail can be found in this video. Written by Bogdan Vazzolla.

Record JMeter Tests Chrome Extension

If you need to run a JMeter Load Test and it’s a burden to download Apache JMeter locally on your machine, open it and manually create your JMeter test file, now there is a much easier way to record browser interactions with JMeter. The LoadFocus | JMeter Load Testing in the Cloud Chrome Extension for recording JMeter test script files (.JMX files) from LoadFocus is a free tool to easily record and run load tests in the cloud.

Performance Regression Testing

Regression Testing, as all Quality Assurance professionals know, is ensuring that previously developed and tested software continues to operate after a change. Performance Regression being a subset of regression testing as a discipline is therefore ensuring that previously developed and tested continues to meet its performance criteria after a change.

Performance testing gRPC services

v0.29.0 contained a lot of interesting features. Have a look at the release notes for details! gRPC is a light-weight open-source RPC framework. It was originally developed by Google, with 1.0 being released in August 2016. Since then, it's gained a lot of attention as well as a wide adoption. In comparison to JSON, which is transmitted as human-readable text, gRPC is binary, making it both faster to transmit and more compact.

How to Build, Schedule and Execute Performance Tests Before Black Friday and Cyber Week

Well into the pandemic and with the E-commerce boom rapidly accelerating due to people needing to stay inside, you’ll need to make sure that your website and mobile applications are performing well under high load for the holiday shopping season and especially for Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale events.

What's New In Loadero (October 2020)

Loadero customers around the world take quality assurance and testing seriously, we understand this and work hard to provide a cloud-hosted testing service to fit client’s needs. Over the past couple months we added new features and browser support to make sure Loadero users can achieve their testing needs. We are proud to share our latest updates in this blog post.