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Manage automated test data with the PractiTest orb

The software testing data provided by CI/CD tools is valuable, but it is not always comprehensive enough to give managers the insights they need to make improvements. To make effective business decisions, managers need visibility into the entire testing process, in a way that will help them understand what needs to be done and how.

How we perform continuous performance testing on Enterprise Search

Elastic Enterprise Search is a product that uses the power of Elasticsearch over datasets — so that data will always be accessible, no matter its location. Enterprise Search leverages Kibana and Elasticsearch to let you index all your data. Enterprise Search is composed of two distinct sets of features: App Search and Workplace Search. App Search provides APIs and dashboard controls for building powerful search experiences.

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Top 5 Kubernetes Load-Testing Tools and How They Compare

It's not for nothing that Kubernetes is a popular choice for running a cloud workload. It can be a powerful tool for orchestrating your applications. However, one thing that can often be a last thought in a production workflow, or maybe forgotten altogether, is load testing. It might be tempting to think that Kubernetes can handle it all. In many cases it can, but it's always smart to know how much your application can take. After reading this article, you'll be equipped to determine which tools would best serve you for load testing your application.

Scalability Testing Best Practices

Will your software perform well during peak hours? Can it handle the load during sales periods? Is your infrastructure valid if you double your sales by the end of the year? These are just some of the questions that scalability testing can help you answer. Scalability testing evaluates the activity level of your application by upscaling and downscaling the number of users.

Top 5 Tools to Test Your Website in 2022

The reliability of a website affects its earning potential, as every second in the digital world counts. According to a study by BCG and Ryte, every second of loading speed costs from $3,000 to $9,000, depending on the eCommerce industry. That shows that your website has to perform optimally all year round. It's the only way to avoid losing money. Aside from outstanding performance, you need to work on your website's design. Certain tools help you improve it to get more conversions.

A Developer's Guide to Continuous Performance Testing

One of the most important phrases of DevOps practices is “Test early, test often.” It’s crucial to perform functional testing early with unit tests and integration tests. But it’s equally important to perform non-functional testing. That means you should have performance tests. As markets become more saturated with each passing day, you no longer have the luxury to postpone performance testing until all features are developed.

API performance testing with k6

Performance testing measures how well systems perform when subjected to various workloads. The key qualities being tested are stability and responsiveness. Performance testing shows the robustness and reliability of systems in general, along with the specific potential breaking points. In this tutorial, you will use k6 to do load testing on a simple API hosted on the Heroku platform. Then you will learn how to interpret the results obtained from the tests.

Testing locally with CircleCI runners

Many development teams start their CI/CD journey with a local build box (or six) that run their tests. In several mobile teams I worked on, for example, we had a few Mac Mini boxes with physical devices plugged in that we used for running local UI and unit tests. Eventually we migrated to a cloud-based solution, which brought us much greater stability and many new features. But moving to the cloud also meant our local hardware was obsolete.

Run Synthetic tests in CI/CD with the new Datadog GitHub Action

Testing early and often throughout the software development process (shift-left testing) helps teams stay agile and reduce the time it takes to validate and release new updates. Datadog Synthetic CI/CD Testing enables you to implement shift-left testing throughout your CI/CD pipeline so that your team can prevent faulty code deployments from degrading your end user experience.