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Spike Testing vs Performance and Load Testing

by Software Testing Magazine in Articles 0

If you ask two software testers, you will get three different definitions for each software testing term. This article discusses spike testing and how this type of testing relates to and differs from performance and load testing. share share share share 

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When Software Testing Just Doesn’t Cut It

January 27, 2025 2

Writing unit tests is pretty much standard practice these days. Otherwise, how would you make sure that your code does what you expect? Yet, some software is mission-critical and merely testing a few examples – or even randomized testing – is not enough.

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4 Reasons Why QA is Essential in Agile Development

February 7, 2025 0

There is a lot of debate around whether QA and Agile are compatible. Some say that QA (quality assurance) is often compromised during Agile’s quick sprints. Yet, foregoing QA altogether will not set a solid foundation for a project. There’s always a need for balance and it’s all relative.

Knowledge

  • Mastering Agile Test Management with Jira: A Comprehensive Guide

    January 31, 2025 1
    Fed up with chaotic test management and scattered QA processes? Transform your testing workflow with Jira’s powerhouse features. This guide reveals battle-tested strategies that go beyond basic issue tracking, showing you how to build a robust testing ecosystem that scales. From automated backups to security implementations, discover the techniques that [...]
  • Spike Testing vs Performance and Load Testing

    January 24, 2025 0
    If you ask two software testers, you will get three different definitions for each software testing term. This article discusses spike testing and how this type of testing relates to and differs from performance and load testing. share share share share 
  • How R Programming Enhances Test Data Analysis

    January 23, 2025 0
    Analyzing data is very important. It helps us learn new things, especially when we need to check how well something or someone is doing. Imagine you’re dealing with repetitive jobs; the correct tools will make your work easier. R, a type of programming, is a great tool for analyzing data. [...]
  • Key Elements in Coding & Testing Engaging Online Slots

    January 21, 2025 1
    The digital revolution has turned traditional casino gaming into a powerful virtual environment that is shaped by the gaming industry’s cutting-edge coding and creative design principles. The colorful animations and cheerful sound effects are essential elements that enhance the software used in interactive games. Careful testing is essential to prevent [...]

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  • Open Source .NET Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Tools

    December 2, 2024 0
    Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is an Agile approach that mixes requirement gathering, documentation and acceptance testing. You write human-readable sentences describing the features of your application and how they should work. share share share share 
  • Commercial and Open Source JMeter Plugins

    October 8, 2024 3
    The Apache JMeter is an open source load testing tool developed by the Apache Foundation that can be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server and also some functional testing. JMeter has an open architecture [...]
  • Open Source Database Testing Tools

    September 26, 2024 7
    Database testing is one of the areas that might have the smaller number of open source tools. The programming languages have many xUnit tools and mocking frameworks, but this is not the case for databases. This article provides a list of open source tools that can be used to perform [...]
  • Exploratory Testing Chrome Extensions

    August 5, 2024 0
    This article presents a list of exploratory testing extensions available for the dominant Chrome browser. The current trend in software testing might be to talk about test automation or artificial intelligence, but in some cases nothing replace the intelligence of a human tester to detect bugs and consequences of irrational [...]

Videos

  • Don’t Do E2E Testing

    December 9, 2024 1
    End-to-end (E2E) testing is one of the more common approaches to testing software, but it is complex, fragile expensive and low quality. As soon as we accept that the best way to test our system is to deploy it all [...]
  • Migrate from Selenium to Selenide to Stabilize Your Tests

    November 12, 2024 0
    Selenium WebDriver is a great open source tool, but it is not software a testing library. It is a browser manipulation tool. Still, a good deal of software QA projects are built on pure Selenium. Selenide is a testing library [...]