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About the Book
Load testing is often neglected in software development. As a result, we often see websites crash due to load on the launch day. With more and more end-users accessing websites using various devices anytime, anywhere, the load demand for web apps grows exponentially. While awareness of the need for load testing is widely acknowledged, there has been little improvement in load testing in software development. That is why we see so many "XXX site crashed on the first day" news.
Here are the common challenges that software projects are now facing in load testing:
- Load testing tools are expensive
- Unable to load-test dynamic websites (using AJAX)
- Load testing is conducted rarely, and often too late
- Lack of skills in load testing
- Fragile load test scripts, unable to maintain them along with application changes
This book will show you a practical approach (Continuous Performance/Load Testing) to address the above.
- Support modern websites. All operations, including AJAX, can be load-tested easily.
- Free (as in freedom as well as free in ‘free beer'). The load test (and build) scripts are all in open-source and popular frameworks, with no vendor-locking. Load testing is no longer a luxury that only large software companies can afford.
- Immediate Result. Set up and running can be done within one day!
- Continuous Performance and Load Testing in a DevOps process. Detect performance or load issues early.
About the Author
Zhimin Zhan is the founder and principal agile testing coach of AgileWay Pty Ltd, Australia. As an advisor and coach, he helps organizations by implementing test automation with Continuous Testing using open technologies such as Selenium WebDriver / Appium and RSpec. Zhimin is the creator of TestWise, the next-generation functional testing tool that supports functional test refactorings, and BuildWise, an award-winning Continuous Testing Server. Zhimin is a frequent speaker and author of 12 books on software testing and programming. He shares his test automation and CI experience on Substack and Medium.