When it comes to database load testing, in the majority of cases it’s enough just to execute a request or series of requests and measure the execution time. However, there may be some cases when you

In an interview from the recent Velocity NYC conference, BlazeMeter's Chief Evangelist Michael Sage talks about continuous performance testing throughout the development lifecycle.   Mike

Last week, BlazeMeter and APM experts New Relic co-presented a webinar, 5 Ways to Test & Tune What Matters Most this Peak Season. The full recording is now available.   Michael Sage

BlazeMeter's Chief Evangelist Michael Sage has guest posted on the IBM Bluemix blog, giving a comprehensive demonstration on how to automate continuous performance testing for applications on the

  If you read our article, JMeter's Superpower: The HTTP Proxy Server, then you already know how to use JMeter's Proxy Server to record HTTP traffic.   But what if a web

Performance testing has changed - dramatically.   Long gone are the days of thinking we could get by without testing, and yesterday's approaches haven't kept pace with the demands of mo

BlazeMeter recently teamed up with automated visual testing experts Applitools to deliver a hands-on webinar on combining frontend and backend testing - allowing you to get a comprehensive view of how

Here is a helpful to have a handy guide for load testing professionals who are new to JMeter and BlazeMeter. We’ll take some of the familiar tasks and ideas from performance testing in general and shed a bit of light on how to approach those tasks in these next-generation tools.

We’re often asked about the difference between Concurrent Users and Hits or Requests per Second, also known as Throughput. Teams want to know the numbers they should be shooting for as performance

In July, Amazon made available to its customers AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery and release automation service. And as part of the platform, performance testing powered by BlazeMeter - a

This post is part of our continuing series on Taurus, an open source test automation tool that extends and abstracts JMeter, and helps to overcome various challenges. Taurus provides a simple way

When looking at a load test, many people choose to focus on the specific elements involved in that specific test, including the number of threads that should be used, response times and hits. This

In this next post in our series on Taurus, we look at overcoming the challenge of working with multiple test script files, with multiple engineers involved, when load testing complex applications.

The question of when and how to use manual and automated testing in the application lifecycle usually has attracted much debate. In general, we follow our existing habits. Teams without a long history