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Equivalence Class Partitioning: A Complete Guide

Equivalence Partitioning, also known as Equivalence Class Testing, is a powerful black-box testing technique designed to streamline testing by minimizing the number of test cases while ensuring comprehensive coverage. This approach is widely used to make testing more efficient without sacrificing effectiveness. Let’s learn more about how it’s done!

Boundary Value Analysis: A Complete Guide

Boundary Value Analysis (BVA) is a crucial software testing technique that focuses on testing the boundaries or edges of input ranges. It is based on the observation that errors often occur at the edges of input ranges rather than in the middle. By testing the extremes, BVA helps identify potential vulnerabilities and ensures that the system behaves correctly at its limits.

5 Ways Perforce Helps with DORA Regulation Compliance

In January 2025, the European Union (EU) will begin enforcing a new regulation called the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The DORA regulation mandates sweeping cyber resilience requirements for financial institutions and third-party information and communication technology (ICT) providers. In this blog post, we examine how two core Perforce offerings help financial institutions and their supporting ecosystem of service providers comply with the requirements laid out in the DORA regulation.

Black Friday Tip for Software Testers

Testers, how can you prepare for Black Friday? @MarcusMerrell suggests running real practice drills. Build an environment as close to production as possible and simulate an outage with your team to see how prepared you really are. These drills help reveal issues in your response process that you might not realize until it’s too late. By practicing in a realistic environment, your teams get more confidence handling real-world outages.

Replay Production Traffic to Mock local development environments

Building and debugging Kubernetes microservices can be tough, especially when you don't have realistic data or environments. See how Speedscale can quickly mock DBs and APIs based on observed production behavior, so you can debug and develop features quickly. People familiar with GoReplay will notice a more modern and automated approach to turning user behavior into reproducible developer environments.

How to Load and Performance Test Kubernetes, what is Kubernetes and nuances of the platform

Check out Matt LeRay's talk on How to Test in Kubernetes at Star WEST 2024. Distributed architectures like Kubernetes present unique performance challenges. Autoscaling, Load Balancing and other mechanisms help with resiliency but can also serve to cover up fundamental problems. In this video, learn best practices and high level concepts around Kubernetes and achieving high throughput.