Cloud Testing Blog

Key takeaways Spike testing applies traffic suddenly rather than ramping, which is what breaks autoscaling and cold caches. The recovery is half the test. How quickly the system returns to ...

Key takeaways Endurance testing and soak testing are the same thing: normal load held for a long time. It finds the failures that need hours to appear, which is why ...

Key takeaways Volume testing increases the amount of DATA, not the number of users. That is what separates it from load testing. Most volume failures are queries that were fine ...

Key takeawaysAPI monitoring runs scheduled checks from outside your infrastructure, so it catches what internal metrics miss.Assert on response content, not just status codes. A 200 with the wrong body ...

Key takeawaysTesting services individually misses the failures that appear when they call each other.Include service discovery, retries and timeouts in the test; they cause cascading failure.Trace across services or you ...

Key takeawaysExternal monitoring catches outages your internal dashboards cannot see, because it fails the same way users do.On-premise gives depth and control at the cost of maintaining the monitoring itself.Decide ...

Key takeawaysEdge computing moves work closer to users, so a single-region load test no longer represents them.Generate load from multiple regions or you measure your CDN rather than your application.Cache ...

Key takeawaysPerformance testing before release finds problems too late to design around.Continuous testing works when it is fast and automatic; a slow suite gets bypassed.Set thresholds that fail the build ...

Key takeawaysGrowth exposed capacity limits that had been invisible at lower traffic.Testing against projected load rather than current load is what bought reaction time.The fixes were architectural, so finding them ...

Key takeawaysOAuth2 makes load testing harder because tokens expire mid-test and refresh adds its own latency.Acquire tokens outside the measured path, then measure the API rather than the auth server.Model ...