Grafana Labs, today at its ObservabilityCon event, unfurled a raft of additional offerings, including public previews of Explore Traces and Explore Profiles tools that make it simple to drill down into data without having to master a specific query language. In addition, the company revealed it has acquired TailCtrl to drive the development of Adaptive […]
Grafana Labs Acquires k6 to Add Open Source Load Testing Tool
During its online GrafanaCONline 2021 conference today, Grafana Labs revealed it has acquired k6, a provider of an open source load testing tool. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said load testing will complement the observability platform Grafana Labs currently provides based on open source Prometheus software. Most of the output of any load testing processes […]
Tricentis Aquires Neotys to Gain Load Testing Tools
Tricentis announced today it has acquired Neotys as part of an effort to expand the scope of its tools portfolio into the realm of load testing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Neotys provides application testing teams with automatic test design and maintenance, user behavior simulation and root cause analysis capabilities using a set […]
Challenges of Designing API-Driven Experiences
As SaaS and mobile application development–and cross-software integration and communication–continue to become increasingly important for organizations across all industries to remain competitive today, APIs play a critical role. In fact, APIs dominate digital experiences today, with an average of 220 new APIs published every month, representing a 30% increase over the previous four years. As […]
DevOps Chat: Performance Testing with SmartBear’s Keshav Vasudevan
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Keshav Vasudevan, product manager for performance testing at SmartBear. Keshav talks about the move to “end-to-end DevOps,” the importance of shifting left with testing and the latest state-of-the-art in performance and load testing with SmartBear. As usual, the streaming audio is immediately below, followed by the transcript of […]
We’re All Load Testers Now (Maybe)
More than 94 percent of organizations already have Agile or DevOps initiatives or plan to adopt them within the immediate future, according to a survey by VersionOne. As part of the process transformation required to adopt these more iterative and rapid methods of delivering software, organizations are reassessing all practices associated with software development and […]
Why your Company Should Load Test
The main reason your company should load test its websites and mobile applications is to learn how the site performs so you can improve the user experience and make smart web infrastructure decisions. Sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Above all else, load testing is a learning experience that provides a wealth of insight into how your […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]
The Business Value of Continuous Testing
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. Enterprise software development models have presented many innovative solutions for IT to align development efforts with business goals. Adopting new software development lifecycle methodologies is as much a business decision as an IT decision. From an […]
Releasing your team from Release Thinking
How much time do you spend optimizing your delivery pipeline? My guess is none. Many teams have figured out great ways to automate their releases, and some even automate testing and monitoring. But they don’t often take the next step and learn from those results to refine the delivery processes.