Tutorials, articles, tools and resources on how to perform load testing in software testing.

Performance Testing with JMeter

February 22, 2016 1

Apache JMeter is one of the most well known open source tool that can be used to perform load testing or functional testing. The book Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 written by Bayo Erinle provides you with the knowledge to start using JMeter and the basic concepts for successful performance testing.

Load Testing Survey Results

September 9, 2014 1

A recent survey from the Methods & Tools software development magazine shows that the load testing activity is performed only in a minority of software development organizations. The poll asked the question: “Does your organization perform load / performance testing?”

Visual Studio Online Load Testing Process

June 16, 2014 0

It is often said that “it’s always the baker’s children who have no bread”. In this very interesting article, Ed Glas explains how Microsoft manage the load testing efforts for its Visual Studio Online tool based on a Cloud architecture.

Preparing for Load Testing Best Practices

April 14, 2014 3

It has been put in evidence by some famous recent failures that load testing is an important activity when you release a public web site. This article provides some hints and tips hat will allow you to prepare for successful load tests.  These load testing best practices range from working with the right team to collecting the meaningful metrics.

Large Scale Load Testing Amazon.com’s Traffic on AWS

December 5, 2013 0

It’s 4am and you don’t know it, but you’re about to get three times the traffic you were expecting. Is your service ready to handle it? Systems are only as scalable as their weakest component. Large scale load testing in production is the best (and surest) way to ensure that services can truly scale to the unexpected and Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help you.

Stress-Testing Java EE 6 Applications Without Stress

September 30, 2013 0

In the context of Java EE 6, unit tests are nice but worthless. Unit and integration tests execute chunks of the business logic in a single thread. Back-end resources and shared states are simulated with mocks.

How Twitter Does Performance Testing

May 30, 2013 0

James Waldrop of Twitter discusses the tools, process and philosophy that goes into performance testing at Twitter. Particular emphasis will be placed on the Iago open source load testing library, which he wrote to enable Twitter’s engineering teams to perform load tests before deploying code to production. This presentation dives into implementation details of some of these tests (including source code) and how complicating factors such as OAuth and arbitrary Thrift protocols are managed. Video producer: https://developers.google.com/google-test-automation-conference/ Slides: http://goo.gl/9VY2b

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