We’re now living in a time where users expect as much functionality, reliability and flexibility from Web apps as desktop programs. All our data is slowly but surely moving into the cloud, and ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Web 2.0 is often described as an evolution, from the ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

Imagine that it’s “show time” for your company’s annual peak period of e-commerce traffic. If you’ve ever been an e-commerce manager for a toy company on Black Friday, a floral company the day before ...

Transaction timing is important for web performance engineers when acceptable service level agreements (SLA) have been defined. In these situations, it allows the definition and measurement of ...

Load testing tools are important to test a specific software's performance in actual or realistic environments. After all, a web application is only as favorable as its use in practical scenarios.

Using performance testing tools, developers and IT teams can catch performance issues early and adjust the application and its compute and network resources to optimize performance and eliminate ...

Microsoft’s web testing framework mixes browser and dev tools access to give you a comprehensive automation and test framework. Modern application development depends on automated testing, using test ...

"The application is horribly slow.", "I don't get the response even after I get my coffee.", "This application is useless". Sounds familiar? How many times have we heard these quotes or or felt like ...

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