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What is Load Testing? How It Works, Tools, Tutorials, and More

Load testing is a type of performance testing that simulates a real-world load on any software, application, or website. Without it, your application could fail miserably in real-world conditions. That’s why we build tools like Retrace to help you monitor application performance and fix bugs before your code ever gets to production.

Testlio 2020 and 2021: An Open Letter of Gratitude and Insights for Our Clients

Dear Testlio Clients, 2020 was a year of abundant challenges. Health, political, economic, social, data, and other issues rippled through news headlines. Moreso, many of us—across organizations and nations—felt the burden of the year. We carried it on our shoulders and in our hearts. Yet, amid challenges, we found hope. We summoned resiliency. We designed new, innovative approaches. And we came together. For one another. In countless ways.

Understanding Standard Deviation in Performance Testing

Standard Deviation is an important metric in performance testing analysis and informs us how stable the application under test is. In other words, it tells us if the requests that occur during the test are consistent or not. Standard Deviation measures how the response times are spread out around the average response time (mean). A small standard deviation means that the response time of all the requests are close to each other.

Sauce Labs - Beginning Test Automation Part 1

In this first of three SF Selenium meetup group recordings, Beginning Test Automation with Sauce Labs, learn about what pieces go into creating an automated test using Java, JUnit4, Selenium, as well as the Maven build tool and the IntelliJ IDE. Set up your project file and create a pom.xml for your first test project and set environment variables so you are ready to write automated test code.

[TUTORIAL] Automate Your Browsers with Katalon Recorder

Katalon Recorder is the most UI friendly and simplest extension for Record and Playback across browsers. It is built to help you replace manual works with automation. — Automate the repetitive tasks on browsers, such as generating reports, filling forms, automating games, etc. — Test your new features before handing your work over to the QA team — Run synthetic testing to monitor the functionality of web applications

Instrumented testing: the answer to faster bug reproduction and issue resolution

With product analytics, you collect data about how your users are interacting with features and how frequently they use your app. With website analytics, you know your top pages, devices, and locations, and you can drill down into activity per visitor. But what about manual app testing analytics?

Cloud Orchestration 101 | A Complete Guide for Beginners

With the expectation to become a $623 billion market by 2023, cloud computing is firmly planted in the technological field. Specifically, the more information that’s created, the higher the demand there is for quick access and manipulation of that data. Therefore, what cloud services offer to end-users is usable and essential: unlimited data storage, disaster recovery, and worldwide access.