There are many programming languages that can be used for test automation. Loadero supports 3: Java (TestUI framework), Python (Py-TestUI framework), and JavaScript (Nightwatch.js framework). Test automation with Java is quite popular, in fact, the second most popular framework of choice when it comes to writing test scripts in Loadero is TestUI.
I'm the technical writer at k6. If you're on this site, you probably know what k6 is. But, to reiterate the essentials: When I started five months ago, I knew I had some work to do because: Really, my "professional programming experience" culminated in some shell two-liners. Fortunately, the k6 team gave me a set of challenges to get up to speed. In this article, I go over the eight challenges the k6 team gave me and present the ways I solved them (I don't promise elegance).
When using a testing tool, it is only logical to trust its results. And the more well-known the tool is, the more trust we put in it. Furthermore, how could we know it is wrong? After all, who is in a position to judge the judge? This phenomenon is particularly true in the load testing community, since the field is still something of a niche among the testing world. Finding deep-dive studies about the actual technical aspect of load testing is difficult.
