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Performance Testing of OAuth 2.0 Secured Apps and Services

LoadFocus now provides easy testing for services that are using OAuth authorization (we support OAuth2.0 as OAuth1.0 was retired in 2012). We support all the OAuth 2.0 grant types: For testing a service that is behind a login (that has OAuth authorization) the only thing the user needs to do is: The call to the authorization server will be done only once before the performance testing of the API endpoints starts.

What is CPU Utilization in Performance Testing?

CPU or Central Processing Unit is the brain of any computer and its main responsibility is processing all the tasks required by the running applications. CPU Utilization is a key metric in performance testing which measures the percentage of time the CPU spends executing a task. One of the most crucial tasks to do when running a performance test is to monitor the resource utilization.

Actively measure the right key metrics during performance testing

During crucial performance testing session we need to monitor and measure various parameters/metrics to be able to analyze and understand why the application behaves in a certain way under a specific load. Below ones are the most used metrics collected during performance testing sessions.

Which are the types of performance testing?

Software developers try to implement applications that not only is responsive and fast with a very small number of users but also with multiple users using the application. To be able to measure this we need to rely on different types of performance testing. Performance testing should be an integral part of the agile release manifesto.

Some websites are just too slow...

Have you ever entered a website and realized how slow things move, you just click a button and you have time to do something else until the requested action is finished. Sometimes I enter on this kind of websites with the idea to purchase their product or service, but when the things move so slow, I start to ask myself, do I really wanna purchase this or shall I find another competitor or website offering the same product.

How to Add Notes to your Load Test Results

We’ve added the functionality to add notes to your load test results. This functionality applies to Load Tests and JMeter Load Tests. It’s super simple to add/edit/remove notes for any of the test runs of the same test in order to caption various changes of your test runs. You can easily compare any test run with a baseline.

How to Compare Two Load Tests using the Baseline Comparison Feature

The load test comparison feature build-in to LoadFocus Results allows you to compare the results of two different test runs of the same test for the cloud load testing service. You can visually compare the results between the test run set as baseline and the current test run, just by setting a test run as a baseline, and loading the other load tests runs. Baseline comparison is important because it allows to easily find differences in performance for the test runs.