4 minutes read Cumulative Layout Shift or CLS, Web Vitals and Core Web Vitals, these terms seem complicated, but it’s actually not that hard to understand what they stand for. Web Vitals is a set of metrics used by Google to identify potential issues with your website. Core Web Vitals is a subset of Web Vitals, focused on… Read more »
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Agile Software Release Checklist Manifesto
2 minutes read In this new agile world, you want to improve your application every day by releasing early and often. How do you manage to release often without major issues? Create a checklist for your software releases, a list of steps to blindly follow every time release a new piece of software. Here is an example of… Read more »
What is the Purpose of Load Testing?
2 minutes read First goal of load testing is “do not lose customers”, the second goal of load testing is… check the first goal. Leaving movie quotes aside, load testing helps you understand how your application behaves under both normal and peak conditions, and discover what is causing the degradation. But truly, the main goal of load testing… Read more »
Our Most Popular Testing Blog Posts so far
< 1 minute read Wanted to help you make the most of our blogs and group in this article the list of blog posts we consider to be the most important, viewed and useful: Here is the list: How to Build, Schedule and Execute Performance Tests Before Black Friday and Cyber Week Cloud JMeter Load Testing at Scale How… Read more »
How to Build, Schedule and Execute Performance Tests Before Black Friday and Cyber Week
8 minutes read Well into the pandemic and with the E-commerce boom rapidly accelerating due to people needing to stay inside, you’ll need to make sure that your website and mobile applications are performing well under high load for the holiday shopping season and especially for Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale events. We have written a handbook,… Read more »
Where to find the configuration files for JMeter when installed with Homebrew?
< 1 minute read When you choose to install JMeter using Homebrew you may find yourself a bit lost with JMeter configuration files and ask yourself: “What is the location of the configuration files now?” To make it easy for you to find the folders please see below the mapping for the folders in the Standard JMeter vs Homebrew… Read more »
Should I use the JMeter GUI for running the load tests against my application/API?
< 1 minute read Often software developers get to ask themselves the question: Should I just run the tests in the GUI now that I finished developing them? The answer is pretty simple, NO. You should not use the GUI when running the tests. The GUI should be used only for developing the tests. For running the tests you… Read more »