Welcome to OctoPerf's blog, where we embark on a journey through the dynamic landscape of load testing, a crucial aspect of ensuring your applications thrive in the face of user demands.
Whether you're a seasoned performance engineer or just diving into the world of load testing, our blog is your go-to resource for insights, best practices, and cutting-edge tools.
JMeter Load-testing
Load-testing using the n°1 open-source solution: Apache JMeter™.
Real-Browser Load-testing
Load-testing using real-browser solutions like Playwright and Selenimum Web-Driver.
Load-testing Methodology
Load-testing methodology and tools comparison.
OctoPerf's releases
Stay tuned on the JMeter™ Performance Center latest releases: OctoPerf!
Whether you're a developer aiming to optimize your code, a QA engineer ensuring application resilience, or a business owner safeguarding user satisfaction, load testing is your ally. Join us on this expedition into the heart of performance excellence.
Are you ready to transform your understanding of load testing? Let the journey begin!
In today's security-conscious world, relying on a password alone is no longer enough. With 2FA enabled, even if your password is compromised, the attacker would still need access to a second verification method (your authenticator app) to get in.
At OctoPerf we're committed to helping you safeguard your valuable test configurations, results, and reports - 2FA is an essential step in that mission.
In 2022, OctoPerf went through a major UI makeover. The goal was not only to move to a more modern tech stack, but above all to offer a smoother, more flexible experience to our users. Since then, this new UI has been warmly welcomed by the thousands of people using OctoPerf every day.
Over time, we’ve kept listening to you: your positive feedback, your suggestions, your ideas for improvement. All of that has helped shape the brand-new version of the OctoPerf UI that we’re excited to share with you in this short demo video, freshly rolled out to production on the SaaS. It's also available for On-Premise users.
If you recall part one of this blog post, we were going to use ChatGPT in parallel with how we would work to cover these aspects of performance testing.
We left the first part of this blog post at the point at which we had compared Requirements Gathering and Risk Assessment, we will pick this post up by looking at Script Creation before concluding with Results Analysis.
If you believe many articles online you would believe that automation in testing will soon be defined, managed and executed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is embedded in many organisations technology landscape and to think that this model will change is shortsighted. AI is here to stay undoubtedly in one form or another, but should it be responsible for the automated testing of your applications under test ?
Clearly the level of involvement that AI has in your automation is up to you, but to depend on it exclusively will reduce its effectiveness and make it little more than a series of tests that provide little benefit when it comes to truly understanding how your application behaves. This post will look at performance testing and the automation that surrounds this discipline but many of the observations are also true for functional automation.
The many articles that support the wholesale use of AI in automation fail to see the bigger picture: most organizations are complex and any technology change is difficult and involves many applications and many stakeholders. So, while simply getting AI to build you a performance test suite in a language of your choice might be possible in some organizations for the vast majority, this is not a viable option.
Contrary to what this introduction might imply, the use of AI in performance testing is advantageous when used sensibly, this post will look to discuss this in more detail.
Some topics are just too trendy to overlook, and AI in testing is definitely one of them. A few weeks ago, we shared a blog post introducing the integration between an MCP server and OctoPerf, highlighting the many benefits it brings.
To illustrate this in action, we recently hosted a webinar led by Thomas Pitteman, performance testing expert at Adeo and OctoPerf power user. In this short 20-minute session, Thomas walks through the concept behind the integration, demonstrates several prompts to launch a test directly from Claude, and shows how to query the AI for insights and recommendations on the results.
The webinar wraps up with a Q&A session, which we chose to keep, so you can hear answers to questions you might be wondering about too.