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
While there is certainly more to testing than unit testing, and more to a well-rounded approach to development than just testing, a failure to appreciate the role and practice of unit testing can lead to disappointment or a skewed notion of testing as a programmer’s responsibility. This session aims to …
“Testing is design”; “Unit tests are documentation”; “Tests are specifications”. These are sought-after rewards of developer testing practices, but simply writing tests or even writing tests before writing production code doesn’t make these wishes come true. When we take up unit testing, we initially tend to do things a certain …
In the IT team, and especially in testing and audit, we concentrate on measuring such items as defect density and product attributes. We see testing as an activity which is designed to help mitigate risk. Yet testing and reviews may increase risk; for the test team, for the IT project …
The starting point of all Agile engineering practices is reproducibly building from source code. If software is delivered on servers, and those servers can’t be reproducibly deployed from bare metal to running services, how Agile can you be? The definition of ’shipping’ software has changed dramatically in the last decade. …