by parag.shah on May 7, 2012
Mobile apps are here to stay but the challenges to test these remain the same. We have already gone through the list of challenges when testing a mobile app – OS and device fragmentation, form factor variations, bandwidth issues, network speeds, recording user actions and load requirements which are varied in mobile. Testing web apps [...]
by Patel Akhilkumar on October 3, 2011
Preface: Oftentimes, we have observed that the Jmeter samples of load scenarios don’t match with previous runs or don’t match among different servers in standalone and client server environment (distributed) etc. The results/samples depend on the many parameters like SUT version, time of execution, data in back end, pacing of requests, think time between requests and [...]
by Patel Akhilkumar on August 8, 2011
Preface: I hope you may have enjoyed the first part of this series “Performance Monitoring of ASP.Net Application”. Now as we have got basic information about the performance monitoring of the ASP.Net application using performance counters, you may have found the problamatic areas of application and now it is time to dig more into the application [...]
by Patel Akhilkumar on August 2, 2011
Preface: While working on many applications’ performance and load test projects, we have been testing quite a few web and desktop applications developed using .Net, Java, PHP etc. using different frameworks, models, technologies and libraries. One of the basic requirements on all these projects is to involve the stakeholders, who are either working directly or [...]
by Manish Mathuria on January 26, 2010
So you need to simulate a load of 5000 users and you are struggling to find a tool that will allow you to create a load of 5000 users. You short list a couple performance testing tools and call the sales reps. Turns out they sell it in packs of virtual users. You and your [...]