As the world transitions to cloud-native offerings as an industry norm, DevOps is gaining traction for its critical role in supporting more efficient IT infrastructure. DevOps is designed to boost collaboration and communication by streamlining the automation process to expedite the creation and deployment of applications. Implementing cloud-native DevOps requires organizations to make a massive […]
Testing Challenges in 2022 – Techstrong TV
Stephen and Alan discuss the biggest testing challenges in 2022, along with the tools and methods needed to solve them. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. Recording: This is Digital Anarchist. Alan Shimel: Hey everyone. Welcome to another Techstrong […]
EP 24: Cloud Performance Testing
The purpose of cloud performance testing is to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks that might occur within an application. Performance testing allows DevOps teams to check the speed, scalability and stability of the apps to ensure that everything is working as planned under the designated workload. In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Kristen Webb (Tricentis), […]
EP 13: Observability and Performance Testing
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel is joined by Christine Yen of Honeycomb, Paul Bruce of Tricentis and Mitch Ashley from ASG/MediaOps to discuss how to effectively test the performance of your applications and how bringing observability into testing environments helps DevOps teams identify and resolve issues early in the SDLC. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation.
Using Incident Response for Continuous Testing
Incident response tools offer the ability for organizations to not only implement continuous testing but to also shorten the feedback loop from continuous testing back into planning and development At this point, you should be able to say the word “continuous” to any technical team, drop the mic and leave. Yes, the idea that we […]
Test Value Distribution
What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast about how many nines of uptime they guarantee. To be sure, uptime is one component of delivering a reliable application […]
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 […]
Sauce Labs Combines Functional and Performance Testing
Sauce Labs announced it is now moving beyond functional testing, adding a front-end testing tool it has dubbed Sauce Performance to make it easier to accelerate testing within the context of a DevOps process. Lubos Parobek, vice president of products for Sauce Labs, said the goal is to enable developers or testers to begin testing […]
The Art of Software Performance Testing
When users turn away from applications or have critical feedback, it’s often because the application is slow, hangs/freezes or, worse, it isn’t available when needed. In this era of limited—or, zero—patience for app instability, delivery teams should ensure that their performance testing capability is sound. First though, let’s start with definitions. Despite popular opinion, performance […]