2 minutes readCustomers conversion rate is a very important metric for every online business, even if you have a simple website, a blog, an ecommerce marketplace or a complex platform. At LoadFocus, we saw this as an opportunity to add a new service under the same plans, a service which will help you keep an eye on… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways Staging exists to mirror production closely enough that surprises surface before release. The closer the parity, especially in data and scale, the more useful it is. A staging environment that drifts from production gives false confidence. LoadFocus – is a easy to use cloud testing tool, and you don’t need any setup, it… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Exchanges fail at the order book and matching engine, not at the marketing pages. Test bursts rather than steady load, since trading traffic arrives in spikes. Use isolated test accounts and a sandbox ledger so a load test cannot touch real balances. Load Testing your cryptocurrency exchange service is very easy with the Cloud… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Emulators catch layout and viewport problems quickly and cheaply. They do not reproduce real network or CPU conditions, so confirm on a device before shipping. Test the viewports in your analytics rather than a generic device list. Mobile Emulation service from LoadFocus allows you to understand how your websites and web pages render… Read more »
5 minutes readKey takeaways Without assertions a test passes on any response, including an error page returned as 200. Assert on content as well as status, since a wrong body is still a failure. Keep assertions cheap. Heavy ones distort the timings you are measuring. What are assertions ? In case you are not familiar with the… Read more »
< 1 minute readWe’ve released our load testing plugin for Jenkins CI. Use the Post build actions and define your load test limits in order to mark the build UNSTABlE or FAILED Easy multiple accounts access via the credential Jenkins plugin. More details here: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/LoadFocus+Load+Testing+Plugin Installation Steps: 1. Create your load testing account on https://loadfocus.com 2. Copy your… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways Test the full purchase path. Homepage load tells you almost nothing about checkout capacity. Payment and inventory are the usual failure points because they cannot be cached. Use distinct accounts and carts per virtual user or you measure a cache, not the shop. If you own an E-commerce website or you are responsible… Read more »
