A well-designed website isn’t about how easy it is to use or how elegant it looks. An aspect often overlooked is the performance of an application in terms of response times. Web and Mobile apps need to respond quickly to requests from users and this means optimizing your site with performance in mind. Today everyone seems to be in a…
Manual Correlation in Performance Testing
Correlation is the hard part of designing scripts in performance testing, usually includes fetching dynamic values on the server’s responses and include them to successive requests. According to Blazemeter’s blog “Correlation is the process of capturing and storing the dynamic value from the server and passing it on to next requests. A value is considered dynamic when it can return…
Fall Online Test Conference
[English] Did you know about OnlineTestConf? OnlineTestConf is an initiative to bring all the advantages of attending professional QA related conferences: personal learning, networking etc. without the shortcomings of scheduling, expenses and travel. Attendance at OnlineTestConf is free and meant for anyone who sees themselves involved in testing and the testing community. All sessions will be recorded and shared with registered participants I invite…
UX Check is a Chrome Extension
UX Check is a Chrome Extension that helps identify usability issues through heuristic evaluation. Jakob Nielsen was one of the pioneers who tried to objectively evaluate the user experience on digital platforms with his heuristic evaluation. The heuristics provide a format that designers can reference to perform a usability review. A heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection method for software…
Common Performance Testing Mistakes
Performance testing is defined as the technical investigation performed to determine or validate the speed, scalability, and/or characteristics’ stability of the product under testing. Performance testing can be a challenging field to get into. Many companies with web and mobile apps often have performance issues because they are not executing the performance tests, or they may not be testing under real-world…
Term “Bug” – Fort Myers and Thomas Edison
More than one year ago, I moved to Fort Myers, a small city located in southwest Florida on the Gulf Coast. The Fort Myers area is a beautiful region, with many nationally protected areas and a big variety of beaches, which makes this area a real paradise; however, this city has a lot more to offer. In 1885, Thomas Alva Edison was…
Testing Congress in LatinAmerica 2018
Software Testing Congresses in Latin America 2018. Testing Bolivia – APR 20, 2018. LA PAZ – BOLIVIA http://testingbolivia.com/ Testing UY – MAY 21-22, 2018. MONTEVIDEO – URUGUAY https://testinguy.org Testing Day Chile – Jun 15, 2018. SANTIAGO – CHILE https://www.testingenchile.cl/ Argentesting – OCT 18-19, 2018. BUENOS AIRES – ARGENTINA https://argentesting.com/
Video Tutorial – How to use JMeter to test a Webservices
How to use JMeter to test a Webservices
Comprendiendo Protocolo HTTP
La mayoría de las herramientas generadoras de carga, primeramente realizan una grabación de las peticiones HTTP, estas peticiones luego deben ser manipuladas para que nuestro script sea ejecutado exitosamente. Entender las características básicas del protocolo HTTP, nos ayudará a llevar a cabo pruebas de performance más completas.
Understanding HTTP protocol
Most load generating tools first record HTTP requests and then these HTTP requests must be handled to get the script to be executed successfully. Understanding the basic characteristics of the HTTP protocol will aid us in executing more wholesome performance tests.
UX & JMeter 4.0
UX is a high priority task for Apache JMeter. We’ve seen many improvements after each version. Just a few day ago on February 11th, 2018 JMeter released version 4.0! When you open JMeter 4.0, the first impression is that it looks different, by default “Darcula”. If you don’t like it, don’t worry, you can change it. What’s new for…
UX & JMeter 4.0 Español!
La experiencia de usuario es una tarea de prioridad para Apache JMeter, a lo largo de sus versiones hemos podido ver mucha mejoras. Hace apenas unos días, Febrero 11, Apache JMeter liberó la última versión 4.0. Cuando abres JMeter 4.0, la primera impresión es: JMeter se ve diferente! por defecto el tema Darcula, No te gusta este tema? No te…
A review on Cloud testing
Cloud computing is providing a new horizon of opportunity for IT companies with software development, and even for Software Testing. Cloud Testing has many benefits such as: easy availability, high scalability and low costs. It allows executing functional and nonfunctional test (like security and performance test) in different environments without building your own infrastructure. Cloud Testing is a great option to…