It’s no secret that Google likes speed. They have made several announcements about the importance of speed on the web and go so far as to describe themselves as “obsessed with web speed”. In April 2010, they announced that Google search was including a new signal in their search ranking algorithms: site speed. “Historically, we…
Yesterday a customer called me to ask about how his current traffic levels translate to the load he should use for performance testing. We discussed it in several ways, and he said I had been helpful. This morning he sent me an email with a fantastic suggestion to write a blog post about our discussion….
Yesterday a customer called me to ask about how his current traffic levels translate to the load he should use for performance testing. We discussed it in several ways, and he said I had been helpful. This morning he sent me an email with a fantastic suggestion to write a blog post about our discussion….
Yesterday a customer called me to ask about how his current traffic levels translate to the load he should use for performance testing. We discussed it in several ways, and he said I had been helpful. This morning he sent me an email with a fantastic suggestion to write a blog post about our discussion….
We have about 3 feet of new snow here from the storm earlier in the week. It makes for a picturesque Christmas holiday for my family. Today I’m just going to share a summary of 2 performance testing articles that I read this morning, then I’m taking off early to enjoy time with my wife,…
Jason Buksh is a Technical Project Manager and Performance Consultant in London, England. Jason has extensive experience with performance testing at many companies including HSBC and Siemens. He is skilled with tools such as Rational, Grinder, and Performance Studio. His certifications include LoadRunner. We appreciate his time to share some good thoughts with us about…
This is the second installment of an email interview with James Christie, independent software testing consultant and owner of Claro Testing Ltd. In the first part, James talks about his views on usability testing, and in this second part he discusses leaders in usability testing, KPIs, test automation tools, cloud computing, and testing blogs. Living…
This is the third installment of an email interview with James Christie, software testing professional from Scotland. In the first part, James talks about his views on usability testing. In the second part he discusses leaders in usability testing, KPIs, test automation tools, cloud computing, and testing blogs. James mainly discusses load testing in this…
On this day in 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat reached agreement in Cairo on the first stage of Palestinian self-rule. This was the first agreement with the PLO that acknowledged Israel’s right to exist. Unfortunately, performance is everything! See the Second Intifada and Rabin’s Assassination. I guess both sides…
Ricardo Sueiras is a self-professed “IT professional and geek” (found that on his blog. His formal title is J2EE Systems Architect at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Canterbury, United Kingdom. Ricardo has extensive experience with web performance and load testing, and we are grateful he invested his time to share some good thoughts with us about a…
