TestGuild Devops Toolchain Podcast

Get ready to learn how to plan and conduct your next performance test. In this episode, Nikolay Avramov, a software engineer at Automate the Planet, shares performance testing fundamentals. Discover what exactly performance testing is and how you can perform it as part of your test strategy. Also, learn how to set up and create your performance testing Infrastructure. Listen up!

Want to know the latest in emerging trends for site reliability engineering? In this episode Leo Vasiliou, creator of the CatchPoint 2021 SRE Report, shares this year’s survey insights. Discover insights from over 300 site reliability engineers around the globe, as well as actionable advice to help you deliver better value to your customers. Key topics covered will include value-based SRE activities, insights around toil, SRE budget, AIOps, Observability and more. Listen up!

Observability has been a topic I’ve heard more and more about the past few years. But what is it really, and how does it apply to testing? In this episode, Abby Bangser, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Duffel, breaks it down for you. Discover what observability & telemetry is, how to use observability in debugging, how observability is different from monitoring and much more. Listen up!

How do you performance test audio and video? In this episode, Domeniks Bisofs and Nikolajs Varlamovsall will share their secrets about the tricky task of audio and video performance testing. Discover audio and video testing tips, how to set up a performance test, the most common audio and video quality performance issues a tester needs to be aware of, and much more. Listen up!

You probably know that Karate DSL can help you with functional automation testing. But do you know you can also use it for performance testing? In this episode, Artem Bondar, author of the online course Karate DSL: API Automation and Performance from Zero to Hero, shares how. Discover how to leverage your existing Karate scripts for performance testing, load testing using Gatling, and much more. Listen up!

I think A/B testing is an under-utilized technique in SRE and Performance Engineering practices. In this episode, David Sweet, author of the book Tuning Up from A/B testing to Bayesian optimization, shares practical and modern experimental methods that are super helpful to software engineers. Discover tips for designing, running and analyzing an A/B test, identifying and avoiding the common pitfalls of experimentation, and much more. Listen up!

Did you know that Appium has an in-built integration to XCode Instruments? In this episode, Sandeep Dinesh shares how to leverage this information to measure your iOS app’s performance in a real device or a simulator. Discover performance testing mobile app tips, what to measure, and key performance indicators to be aware of. Listen up!

Slow loading times can drive users away from even the coolest of websites or applications. But how can you pinpoint where your product's performance issues lie? In this episode, Dave Westerveld shares the fundamentals of performance testing, including tests and tools to use, monitoring, types of performance tests, and more. Discover the fundamentals of performance testing that you need to know to get started on your performance engineering journey. Listen up

In this episode, Harsh Upreti will go through the importance of load testing your back-end APIs. You’ll learn more about APIs and their performance contracts and hear about useful load templates to get started with API load testing. Harsh will also walk through some REST API examples and share tips on using distributed load testing. Listen Up!

In this episode, James will boil down for you what is performance engineering today, and some of the core attributes that we look at in terms of performance as a performance engineer.

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