cloud-load-testing

Intro We can gain a lot of insight into how applications or websites perform thanks to load testing. If you’re serious about testing, running tests inside your local environment will only take you so far. Eventually you will need some kind of solution that allows you to scale. This is where cloud load testing comes into play. Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running & maintaining the hardware neededRead More →

As we have previously examined, the cloud has opened up many new doors within the world of performance testing. We are now seeing a new use case for cloud performance testing emerge, not simply a means to validate scale, but as a service to validate deployment options based on size, scale, and cost: load testing for capacity planning. This trend is a sign that the power of pricing/performance has shifted from operations teams to development andRead More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing In the previous (#6 How it Used To Work), I told a story of how we put our desktops, yes desktops, to work. However, in today’s world, there are many more options.   You can rent agents from other commercial load testing clouds or you could use your own cloud to generate the test load.  Each team can now have their own environment and the dependency friction gets removed. Stephen Sigwart (CTORead More →