Tag: LoadTesting

Cloud services can reduce the company’s IT budget significantly by replacing the burden of infrastructure capital costs with flexible subscription-model usage rates.
In their turn, these costs can be optimized, too. Here are some practical tips on how to take control over bills from AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and other cloud services.

Nowadays, almost every company has its own mobile app which provides millions of customers with products and services for all kinds of requests. Just think of it: every day, developers upload thousands of new applications to Google Play and App Store. In this blog post, we will take a step-by-step look at how to write a load script for a mobile application and run a test by generating HTTP/HTTPS traffic on the app server using JMeter.

In this part of the article, we would like to show an actual case of WordPress optimization and performance testing that our team recently performed. We will also provide practical recommendations that will allow you to speed up your website’s performance. We successfully applied the recommendations while working on this case, leading to a 12-fold increase in WordPress speed.

SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is an enterprise resource management software that covers the work of an entire company. SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. If this is the case in your company, you might have started asking yourself how to test your SAP’s performance and which tools to choose. In this article, we will share the basics of how we test SAP ERP with Loadrunner.

We have a lot of experience in the field of web performance optimization, so we would like to share with you our best practices for solving such problems. In this part of the article, we will cover how to test a website on the WordPress platform, give you useful tools and important metrics for website testing. Additionally, we will shed light on site performance optimization.

Load testing is most useful in situations where testers need to evaluate the behavior of websites under a high user load. Since websites and web applications have to constantly cater to thousands of users concurrently, the process of load testing becomes mandatory for them. In this article, we will discuss why load testing is important for web applications.

We talked to our expert from PFLB’s load testing department about financial application testing. This post shares experience of testing financial applications and transaction systems, along with some life hacks on how to choose the perfect timing for such performance tests.

Online gaming is booming, and the demand for online games will be persistent in upcoming years. The global gaming market was valued at USD 173.70 billion in 2020, and it is expected to reach a value of USD 314.40 billion by 2026. One of the important growth factors is, perhaps, the pandemic, since multiple lockdowns made people stay at homes and turn to game platforms to pass the time. But it also created unexpected load growth on gaming servers all around the world.
Obviously, in such circumstances the QA sector of load testing for online games is increasing, too. In this article, we will outline what is load testing in games, why it is an absolute must to performance test games on a regular basis, what types of performance tests are applicable in the online gamedev industry.

Mobile games require performance testing before they hit the markets, otherwise a game built for a high-end device can get complained about by thousands of users and cause financial and reputational losses. Luckily, most key market players do realize it and run performance and load tests on a regular basis, during development, before every next release, etc., so the testing process becomes a necessary routine.

PFLB has recently started testing a large-scale banking system. It was extremely difficult to organize a well-established testing process, so we’re sharing our ideas for you not to reinvent the wheel.