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Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

With the advantages cloud storage offers over on-premise or traditional storage, we will continue to witness more migration of organizational resources to the cloud. As this trend continues unabated, ...

Load testing tools are important to test a specific software's performance in actual or realistic environments. After all, a web application is only as favorable as its use in practical scenarios.

Imagine launching a website that works perfectly in testing, only to watch it struggle or crash the moment real users arrive.

The reason to load test your client/server application is to detect multi-user interaction errors, right? Wrong! If this is your view of load testing, you are seeing only one dimension of this ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

The importance of Java test frameworks in modern, Agile software development simply can't be understated. Of course, software developers tend to like writing code more than they like writing tests, ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...