I’m going to let you into a little secret about web application performance testing. It doesn’t always do what you probably think it does. More specifically, the figures you get back aren’t always the full story. Sure, performance testing will let you see how quickly your systems are responding. However, it won’t
I’ve been involved in performance testing for 3 decades. During that time, it has evolved massively and continues to change. If you’re a newbie, performance testing can be a tough subject to get your head around. Increasingly, I talk to people at companies who’ve never done proper performance testing, but
Micro Focus has released LoadRunner Professional 2022. The latest version of their class-leading performance test tool. We’ve been through the release notes and selected 3 things you need to know about LoadRunner Professional 2022. If you’re not familiar with LoadRunner Professional, it waspreviously called simply LoadRunner. It has a rich and
Bang!! All of a sudden, one of your production servers goes down. What happens next? How does your system respond? Fortunately, the outage was only in your test environment, at least this time. It was introduced randomly, but deliberately, by chaos engineering. To understand the need for chaos testing, it’s
These days, systems need to be ultra-responsive. You don’t have the time to wait, and neither do your customers and end-users. In this high-speed world, software performance is a must, not a nice-to-have. In the past, you could get away with running a quick performance cycle at the end of a
Micro Focus has announced the end of Virtual User Days (VUDs) for LoadRunner Professional and LoadRunner Enterprise. This blog will cover everything you need to know, including: If you use LoadRunner Virtual User Days (VUD’s) to performance test, then read on… 1. This is Not the End of LoadRunner This is
BlazeMeter and LoadRunner Cloud appear similar on the surface: They’re Both SaaS performance test tools, they both run JMeter, Gatling and other common scripts, and they both provide more than enough concurrent users for most needs. But how do they compare to each other? And more importantly… which one should you
LoadRunner Cloud is already a fantastic performance testing solution. It already has cloud-hosted load generators, flexible licensing models, and global accessibility. As with all Micro Focus products though, LoadRunner Cloud has a strong development backlog. The latest release, LoadRunner Cloud 2021.04, includes some noteworthy additions… LoadRunner Cloud 2021.04 – Release Highlights Released
Performance needs to be built into your software as early as you possibly can. LoadRunner Developer makes this easy. Performance is critical to the success of your software solution, but it can’t just be bolted on at the end. A stitch in time saves nine, and solution performance is no
When you think LoadRunner, you think expensive. It’s a knee-jerk reaction. You’re used to buying bundles of virtual users and paying a lot for them. Conversely, when you think of open-source tools like Jmeter, you think free. But is this true? Open Source Costs More Than You Expect In reality,
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