Tag: Enterprise

What is k6? Who is it for? k6 is a popular open source tool for load testing built for engineering teams. Born as a startup, k6 was acquired by Grafana Labs in 2021, perhaps for its ability of integration with a really large number of third-party tools. In this article, we will lay out our experience of working with k6 and our opinion on how to make the best of using it.

A wise man once said, Only those who do nothing make no mistakes. That is why we devote this post to mistakes often made in load and performance testing projects. This post was written not only for managers who are up to their first testing project, but also for leading engineers who have had many of them and have many stories of their own to tell.
The focus of this text is on performance testing, although there obviously may be many mistakes in any part of a complex IT project.

In Part 1 of this tutorial, we had a close look on how to update your load testing environment to make load testing results automation possible. Instead of preparing your load testing report manually for days, with the environment discussed above, your data structure will depend on you, not you on your data structure.

In Part 2, we’ve tackled a problem that engineers in every load testing company complain about, — namely, how Grafana slows down the system, — and several other quick fixes to your Grafana dashboards. We plunged into multiple databases and data sources, retention policies and tag filters.

Finally, in this part we want to enable you to automate your test reports using all the infrastructure you have hopefully designed after reading through parts 1&2.

To launch a product, you often need several testing environments. But why? Why pile up equipment, overload engineers with tasks, and hire more staff? Is it really inevitable? We will take a closer look at this problem below, but trust us, it is.

In this part, let’s tackle a problem that engineers in every load testing company complain about, — namely, how Grafana slows down the system, — and several other quick fixes to your Grafana dashboards.

In this article, we start with a major topic, and then, in the following parts, we’ll go deeper into super-hardcore stuff.
Test reports automation is the way to optimize testing costs and make performance testing more affordable. By cutting the cost, you will also be able to attract smaller businesses as customers. Good news: test reports automation is possible with the help of such popular tools as Grafana and InfluxDB, that all testers are already familiar with, to say the least.

There are few companies in the IT systems quality assurance market that have expertise in SAP testing, but PFLB is one of the few that do. Over the years, our specialists accumulated experience in retail that came in handy when helping X5 Retail, a major food retail company worth $16 billion, to support their internal IT systems. We started with SAP platform deployment, established testing processes in the retail giant’s systems, and maintained contact for more than 10 years.

A bare-metal server versus a cloud server: not a dilemma anymore. We have a great case on AWS cloud migration here!

We live in a world where the consumer directs markets and decides the fate of businesses across the world. Managing customers effectively is not only essential for growth but also important for ensuring your business’s survival. CRM software plays a key role in helping businesses manage customer relationships and address their pain points. Unsurprisingly, CRM […]

Cloud computing has emerged as revolutionary technology in the past decade. Gartner predicts that the waves made by the cloud shift will result in $1 trillion and more in IT spending, making it one of the most disruptive forces in IT expenses. Unsurprisingly, cloud has always been a favorite platform of web-service providers, owing to […]