NeoLoad 7.11 is now available! The highlights in a nutshell are outlined below. More information on all the latest Tricentis product releases — including self-healing AI, elastic test execution and more robust enterprise app testing —  can be found here. Easy, more flexible burst licensing options  NeoLoad is licensed on a virtual user (VU) basis, meaning each license accounts for how many VUs can be generated as load to stress a system under test. The VU licenses are used ongoing for continuous performance testing. To account for the use case where teams nee ..read more

Nowadays everyone is trying to board their software projects on the Agile and Continuous trains. Almost every organization is trying to embrace those practices. Sadly, some even if the practices do not apply to the nature of specific software projects. And even on the ones that do apply, many are struggling to embrace the practices, succeed in the methodologies, and reap the benefits that they bring. A few manage to somewhat embrace the practices. Even fewer manage to implement testing practices together. So you can imagine that doing QA processes well in any Agile/continuous environment is ..read more

On March 23-24th we organized our 3rd Virtual PAC. As we “followed the sun” over 24 hours, we had the honor to welcome a new PAC Expert as part of our panel: Taras Tsugrii, Software Development Engineer at Facebook. In his presentation, Taras discussed “Old Pattern Powering Modern Tech” — specifically, append-only, one of the oldest properties of storage systems that, despite its simplicity, powers the most efficient and sophisticated modern technology — from databases to blockchains and consensus algorithms. As he explains, “It’s natural to look for a complex solution when faced with a chall ..read more

The CNCF open-source project Keptn is currently helping hundreds of performance, DevOps, SRE, and automation engineers with flexible automation around performance & resiliency engineering as well as delivery (DevOps) and operational (SRE) automation. By providing automation with 90% less automation code, Keptn enables users to bring more automation into more projects. Keptn has helped many engineers to scale DevOps & SRE automation to more apps and projects But, Keptn wouldn’t be where it is today without the PAC (Performance Advisory Council). Over the past 2 years, the PAC was inst ..read more

When measuring database performance is done as part of automation testing, I experience interesting and useful results. Here are the areas for running one of the test cases:  Number of SQL statements  Separately broken down by select, insert, delete, update quantities Lock waiting time Rollbacks Database server CPU time and percentage The number of rows read, the number of rows in the database during the test case.    Why is accuracy an asset?  In a large enterprise application, small code changes are usually reflected in many different services.  For example ..read more

Tricentis NeoLoad 7.9 introduces automatic license lease management, greater real-time reporting collaboration, simplified Dynatrace integration configuration, export of test results data in structured format from the Python CLI and more The highlights in a nutshell: The license leasing at runtime is now much easier for everyday use cases — NeoLoad manages the lease/release process for you automatically. (Though if you have multiple licenses, it’s a simple click to keep managing licenses manually as you do today.) You can now share your dashboard with colleagues, stakeholders and clients throu ..read more

Many of us work for prolonged periods at departments where the performance engineers group together to share their knowledge. These departments have a variety of names: performance competence centers, performance center of expertise, load and performance testing center, or even (God forbid) load testing factory. Besides allowing for a rapid exchange of information and ideas that these performance competence centers, as I will call them now, offer for the performance engineers themselves, these centers also provide a single point of contact for the organization they work in for performance-rel ..read more

Neotys is joining Tricentis! The leader in automated continuous testing now has the leader in automated continuous performance testing in its portfolio. Rarely is it so obvious that there’s such a perfectly snug fit between two companies. Neotys and Tricentis have had a strong partnership for many years, and we keep hearing from our customers that our offerings dovetail so seamlessly that this alliance should go further. The next logical step is to join forces, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I encourage you to register for the webinar Introducing Tricentis NeoLoad: Behin ..read more

With NeoLoad 7.8 now you can edit test scenarios directly from the NeoLoad Web Platform and visualize on your dashboards real-time metrics captured throughout the test from dynamic Microsoft and Prometheus monitors. And sharing results is even easier with one-click export of any dashboard as a PDF. The highlights in a nutshell: Capture real-time metrics from dynamic Microsoft and Prometheus monitors. NeoLoad creates counters dynamically all along the run phase of your tests, so you retrieve and analyze key metrics from your auto-scaling systems. Now you can edit test scenarios directly from th ..read more

At the 2020 virtual PAC I discussed “Should performance testing grow fur or feathers to be saved from extinction?” — you may check the video and slides for more details and interesting historical facts. Basically it was about the past, present and future of performance engineering. Here I will try to summarize it in a more streamlined way. I believe that we see two major industry paradigm shifts: one, more platform/infrastructure-oriented; another, more process-oriented. If we look at the changing computing paradigms, it started from highly centralized mainframes with full control of workload ..read more