What are some concerns when testing microservices for performance that you should be aware of? Nicole van der Hoeven talks about common points of failure and the coordination problem.

Marie Cruz and Nicole van der Hoeven talk about what exploratory testing is, why you should do it, and how to do exploratory testing to improve application performance. They discuss some heuristics to add structure and intention to exploratory testing for both frontend and backend performance.

What are some of the first questions you'd ask when joining a new load testing project? For Nicole van der Hoeven, it's "Why?": Why do you want to do performance testing? Why do you want to do it now?

How would you explain load testing to a 5-year-old? Paul and Matt attempt to do so using metaphors involving food. Load testing is complicated, so thinking about it in terms of simple language can be a helpful exercise in what really matters.

In this week's k6 Office Hours, join Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Leandro Melendez as they talk about performance testing in the Agile world. How has Agile approach changed the way we do performance testing? What's the current state of performance testing? and How can k6 help? Join us to know more! Do you want to join our team?

Tracetest enables trace-based testing with assertions at any point within a request transaction. Using the xk6-tracetest extension, your k6 tests can launch deep testing by unlocking the power of OpenTelemetry. Join us as Developer Advocates Nicole and der Hoeven and Paul Balogh are joined by founder Ken Hamric and software engineer Oscar Reyes from Tracetest.

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Which should you do: frontend vs. backend performance testing? The short answer is both. Each has its pros and cons, but hybrid load testing combines them and gives you the most holistic view of performance, including frontend concerns like how quickly a page renders or perceived application performance as well as backend concerns like response times of individual components.

In this video, we talk about how to organize testing scripts in k6 using features like tags, groups, and functions depending on what type of testing you want to do with your test script. Developer Advocates Paul Balogh, Marie Cruz, and Nicole van der Hoeven show us a few examples of how they would organize and modularize scripts in a test suite.

In this introduction to performance testing, we talk about how performance is part of the functionality of an application, why you should do performance testing, and some myths about performance that discourage teams from testing for it and make applications more likely to fail and fail miserably.