3 minutes readKey takeaways Keep the pipeline fast. A suite people skip because it is slow provides no safety at all. Build once and promote the same artefact through environments rather than rebuilding per stage. Make the pipeline the only path to production, or the checks become optional in practice. What is CI/CD? Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (or… Read more »
4 minutes readAs website traffic increases, it is important to ensure that your website can handle the load. One way to achieve this is through load testing, a process that helps identify bottlenecks and other performance issues. What is a Load Testing Tool? A load testing tool is a software application designed to simulate real-world user traffic… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways A dashboard is only useful if it shows the few numbers you act on. Arrange widgets around a question you ask often rather than around what is available. Review the layout occasionally. Dashboards accumulate widgets nobody reads. As a developer or QA tester, you know how important it is to have all the… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Depth in one area beats shallow familiarity with every tool. Learning to read systems and ask better questions outlasts any framework. Automation is a skill within testing, not a replacement for knowing what to test. Software Testing is hard. It involves hard work and dedication in learning the product, but also a huge… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways Running load tests from Jenkins puts performance in the same gate as the rest of the build. Fail the job on a threshold, not on a chart nobody opens. Keep the CI test small and run the long soak test on a schedule instead. We’ve released a new version of our load testing… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Releasing often only works if the pre-release checks are automated and identical every time. A written checklist beats institutional memory the first time someone is on holiday. Anything you check manually before every release is a candidate for the pipeline. In this new agile world, you want to improve your application every day… Read more »
8 minutes readKey takeaways Start weeks ahead. Finding a capacity problem in peak week leaves no time to fix it. Test the whole path including payment and third parties, since those fail first under load. Agree who is on call and what the rollback is before the traffic arrives. Well into the pandemic and with the E-commerce… Read more »
