Avoiding to load test any web application could be risky. Why? Because if the program is exposed to an excessive load, the entire system can fall on its knees, offering nothing but a waste of time and resources and potentially unhappy users. That’s why load...
This year’s Black Friday shopping period was already predicted to be the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S. for traditional brick and mortar stores, but even on that day, more shoppers ditched the long lines and were busy filling up their online shopping...
The Early Days of Flash Apps Have you ever run into issues load testing Flash applications or any other Rich Internet Applications (RIA)? In the early days of the Internet, web pages were static HTML, repeatedly giving users the same content. With the addition of...
Performance Testing Tools There are a few different ways to attack performance testing. Different tools take a variety of approaches. Put together, they let you perform extensive performance testing that will ensure your site won’t slow down or crash when business is...
User Experience (UX) Can Make or Break a Business No one is going to buy your products or services if your site is hard to use, so you design your site to be intuitive and easy to navigate. It’s that simple, right? Not so fast. If you ignore load testing, your...
Not All Load Testing Is the Same Traditionally, when we think of load testing, we mean an entirely internal test. You send a large number of virtual users at your site or application to see how it performs. But everything happens behind your firewall. The calls are...
