Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

Dynatrace, a digital performance software company, announced the availability of the Dynatrace Load solution suite, an end-to-end application testing and diagnostic solution that integrates synthetic ...

The reason to load test your client/server application is to detect multi-user interaction errors, right? Wrong! If this is your view of load testing, you are seeing only one dimension of this ...

JMeter is a popular open source tool for load testing, with many useful modeling features such as thread group, timer, and HTTP sampler elements. This article complements the JMeter User’s Manual and ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial ...

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In 1999, the world was a very different place. Less than 4% of the world population was using the internet—largely over dial-up modems. Google was just coming out of beta, sites like Ask Jeeves, Alta ...

Using performance testing tools, developers and IT teams can catch performance issues early and adjust the application and its compute and network resources to optimize performance and eliminate ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...