Tag: Mobile

Performance testing is one of the most challenging components of web application testing. But it is worth it: if done right, performance testing can forecast product behavior and its response to user’s actions with an impressive amount of detail and precision. Irrelevant web performance test data or wrong metrics chosen during testing cost companies a lot of money and effort, while not monitoring your web application performance at all can lead directly to a crash, say, on Black Friday, if you are not prepared to handle an increased number of concurrent users.

Business or product owners needn’t know exactly how to performance test a website, but it’s useful to have a basic understanding of procedures that you pay for. From this post, you can learn what web application performance testing is, when it should be done, and how. Then, you will be able to make an informed choice whether to hire testing specialists or run testing sessions on your own.

Software testing has swiftly evolved as industries began to understand the critical importance of usability, security, and seamless functionality in winning customers and generating leads. The market’s adoption of innovative automation tools has rendered the testing process more economical, quicker, and widely available. The upcoming trends in software testing suggest a move towards enhanced flexibility […]

Shopify is a great e-commerce platform, but as your business grows, you may face issues with limited customization, costly scaling, and insufficient performance control.

Although PFLB Platform is user-friendly, it has every necessary function you may need to have full control over the performance testing process.

iOS and Android emulators are software that simulate real devices and are often used for mobile app performance testing. An emulator can demonstrate how an app will operate on various types of devices and under different OS releases.

Postman is a quite popular tool used to check the work of API and run functional and integration tests easily. However, many developers also use Postman for performance testing. Some use it to measure the response time, while others write scripts to simulate the load.
In this blog post, we will share our opinion of the foundations of these methods and discuss if they are worth your time.

In broad-brush terms, there is only one scenario for mobile app performance testing, no matter what the OS is. You choose the tool, start an emulator or a device, connect it to the network, and configure your proxy server. In this post, we are sharing the list of such differences between Android and iOS app performance testing, as we do not want anyone to make these kinds of surprising discoveries when in the middle of the testing process.

One of the main reasons is a widespread misbelief that testing your system is rather expensive. In some cases it is not cheap, indeed, say, when you want to test a complex system in a short time before release. But such situations are rather an exception than a rule: much more often, system performance testing requires a very moderate budget, while offering an opportunity to save money! How? Read further, and find out!

Have you noticed that your app often crashes or users uninstall it soon after the initial download? With high probability, the reason is the performance of your application in various networks and under different loads. To be sure about that, check it under critical conditions by testing your app’s performance.

Mobile app testing is often even more challenging and tedious than that of PC software. A large variety of devices, increased mobility of users, the use of device-specific features — all of this can seem confusing. In this post, you’ll find out more about what it means to performance test mobile apps, as well as get some tips and hacks that help do it.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, so it’s your last chance to take a look at previous years’ results for business and do the math. Together with Christmas sales, these three events make up for the peak load in Internet traffic. ECommerce and mobile apps endure the highest load and expect great profits.