In a perfect world you’d expect developed code to be “bug-free” or “clean”. However as we all know, this is not a perfect world and there will always be bugs. Our goal is to capture as many of them as early as possible.
This video is about performance testing goals and methodology. It covers questions such as what is performance testing and what’s needed to run a performance test. Web performance testing is done to validate speed, stability and scalability of a web application. To check if an application response time is acceptable …
TourBus is an application that does web testing on real-world servers. It combines the flexibility and expressiveness of a functional web test suite, the statefulness and intelligence of a regression test suite, and the concurrency of a load/stress/bench suite. In short, it can test your web application from end to …
This is the second of two episodes where we learn the basics of Load Testing our web applications. In this episode we take a look at autobench, a tool that automates our httperf load tests, then we’ll figure out how to visualize our httperf results in a graph, and finally …
One way to measure the scalability of your Rails application is to use Load Testing. This is the first of two screencasts where we attempt to give an introduction to load testing and show how to use two of the most basic Load Testing tools, Apache Bench and httperf. http://railslab.newrelic.com/2009/06/23/episode-15-load-testing-part-1
