TestGuild Devops Toolchain Podcast

What can performance engineers learn from the principles of functional test automation? In this episode James Walker, an SDET at Curiosity Software will share modeling and data tips that most might associate with functional testing, but can be applied to performance testing as well. Listen to discover why test data is so critical for creating more realistic performance tests.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019 are over – how did your site do? Listen in to hear about a few companies whose website did not fare well this year. Also, discover a simple way to get started with performance testing and how to participate in the December performance testing challenge.

The way software is delivered has changed. We now release smaller changes more often – and we must adapt. In this episode, Stephen Townshend shares ways to simplify your performance testing efforts and adapt to more agile methods. Discover why simpler is better, and learn some tips to get more folks involved in the transition from performance testing to performance engineering.

In this episode, listen in on one of Perf Guild online conferences’ Ask Us Anything roundtables with Scott Barber and Mark Tomlinson. Scott is the founder of PerfTestPlus, and Mark is a host at PerfBytes, so they’re both performance testing uber-experts. Learn more about using functional automation scripts for performance testing, the future of performance testing, ways to get started with performance testing, and much, much more. Also, listen up to find out how performance testing is similar to pipes and balloon animals.

Have you ever worked on a project where you felt the testing was thorough, yet in the first week of production the software had severe issues and problems? In this episode, Dawn Haynes will share how to inject robustness testing into your projects to uncover those issues before release. Robustness is an important and often overlooked area of performance testing. Listen to discover some strategies for making robustness testing a project-level concern.

In this episode, find out why the value of any practice, especially performance testing, depends on its context. While context-driven testing is usually associated with functional Testing, Alex Podelko, a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, explains how it works even better with performance-related activities. Listen up and discover a new approached, you can use with your performance testing planning efforts.

In this episode, Henrik Rexed of Neotys will join us to give us his recap of the 2019 Performance Advisory Council (PAC) event that took place in September. Listen in to find out which performance testing themes and topics stood out for him. Discover what the Performance Advisory Council is all about, as well as how to join the online PAC events to learn more about the latest in performance testing.

On most modern websites, performance testing measurement focuses on collecting information only about the performance of the lower layers of an application. But what about metrics from a user's perspective? In this episode, Jacek Okrojek from TestArmy will share his approach to obtaining information about UI metrics, which are critical from the user's perspective. Don’t miss it!

Teams are more eager than ever to incorporate testing into their Agile and DevOps workflows. But what about performance testing? Today Keshav Vasudevan will share why protocol-level-based performance scripting can be time consuming, and how a real browser-based protocol performance approach may be better in certain situations. So listen up and discover actionable insights for creating user-based performance testing, and how to add them earlier in your development life cycle.

In this episode, Scott Moore will share his thoughts about Application Performance Monitoring. We’ll discuss the latest Gartner report on full performance monitoring and where he thinks we might be heading over the next few years. Listen up and discover more about APM observability and AI Ops.