There are many articles on the huge benefits of performance testing integrated into the development process and the concept of shift-left performance testing. We have also discussed the concepts of Load Test Driven Development which involves the creation of performance testing in parallel with the code development and sits alongside Test Driven Development. We are going to consider in this post how involving performance testing resources in the application design process can be a benefit.

Our new UI has been available for everyone since a few weeks now. It is a major project for us that has taken several years to get to this stage. It’s been a lot of effort but we’re confident that it will be worth it when you see all the new possibilities. That being said, we thought it would be helpful to ease you into it by going through some of the key features together. The goal is to talk about the major UI changes that impact most if not all the new screens.

Adeo is the European leader in the home improvement and DIY market, and number 3 worldwide. Its companies : Leroy Merlin, Bricoman, Weldom, Zôdio… Gather 150 000 leaders and more than 1000 sales points over 20 countries. Teams all over the world enable ADEO companies be useful to inhabitants while making home a positive place to live. Thomas Pitteman Very fond of everything related to computers, he worked in the transport industry before merging work with passion by joining Adeo in 2018.

With the release of OctoPerf’s new UI we wanted to create a component that would allow our users to easily edit HTTP request actions. The new UI being heavily inspired by IDEs such as Eclipse or Visual Studio we decided to create a component that behaves likes the project settings panel of IntelliJ: IntelliJ Settings This panel displays a tree on its left part with a search input on top. The content of the left part changes depending on the current selection.

BivwAk! is the transformation hub for BNP Paribas. Its goal is to bring new services and skillsets at the crossroad of all BNP Paribas entities. It’s in this context that Dino learned about OctoPerf. Dino Dona is the QA lead at BivwAk! He handles all the testing-related activities. Dino is very passionate about testing because it's a constantly evolving space. With new methodologies and tools emerging all the time. We met Dino at the french testing event JFTL.

We are going to look at scalability testing in this Blog Post. On paper scalability testing is simple because all you are doing is increasing the load, but there are some common pitfalls that can be easily avoided. So you need to really understand what you are trying to achieve before you start.

We are going to explore whether Load Test Driven Development is an idea that would be worth pursuing for your organisation. We will recap on what Test-Driven Development (TDD) is in the next section but fundamentally Now when you think about this, does it make sense to try and run a performance test before we have developed any code? We think it does and we are going to explain why. For clarity we are not suggesting that Load test Driven Development should replace TDD but rather to compliment it.

It’s been a while since the last update post in july 2021, not that we haven’t updated OctoPerf since then but the additions we’ve made are not easy to share in a blog. Allow me to take an example.

In this Blog Post we are going to look at the GraphQL HTTP Request sampler and look at how GraphQL requests can also be made using a HTTP Request sampler in case you are for some reason restricted to an earlier version of JMeter (the sampler was only introduced in JMeter 5.4). We will also look at some of the principles of GraphQL.

Building performance tests that conform to a very specific level of load and concurrency is a standard approach to performance testing. You determine your peak levels of load and concurrency, and you build a test that meets this. You build soak test and scalability tests that conform to pre-determined levels of load and concurrency, and you execute these alongside the other scenarios you build to meet your performance requirements.