performance testing
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Successful Performance Testing Begins at RequirementsDiscovering performance issues in early builds allows more time to correct the design. By including critical performance-related features and elements earlier, we can take advantage of the incremental nature of the development process to avoid creating engineering in potential performance issues. | 
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Why You Should Build a Custom Performance Testing FrameworkPerformance testing involves an unparalleled combination of different workloads and technologies—which translates to a large set of variables for a performance test. Creating a custom simulation framework lets you execute varied performance tests at any stage of the product development cycle. | 
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From Jeff Bezos—A Valuable Lesson on Competition Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently addressed a group of children at an elementary school. There was was one particularly interesting sound bite: "Who succeeds at Amazon? Explorers and pioneers. Who fails? Those who focus on killing our competitors." Here's why you shouldn't obsess over competition. |
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FCC Wants You to Track Mobile Network Speed with Free AppDo you suspect the advertised speeds your mobile provider hypes don’t measure up to actual performance? If you have an inquiring mind and really want to know for sure, the Federal Communications Commission has a free app for you to use. | 
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What Goes into a Successful Recipe Site or App?While all of the shopping buzz and analysis is happening during the holidays, another niche that is steadily and silently picking up momentum is the online world of recipes—both recipe portals and applications. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the important aspects of a successful recipe site or app. | 
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How to Create a Reliable Baseline for Measuring Your App’s PerformanceA baseline test measures an application’s performance and tells you whether it meets requirements before it goes live to customers. One of the most challenging exercises in creating a baseline is making the test dependable. What can you do to make sure you develop a reliable performance baseline? | 
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Exploring the Need for Holistic Performance Test StrategiesMukesh Sharma looks at why performance, of the various attributes that testers target, should always remain a very important piece of the pie. In an agile world, performance test strategies must be nimble and robust enough to try new approaches to meet the need of the day. |
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Why the Government Health Care Site Launch Was Doomed from the StartThe implementation of the Affordable Care Act on October 1, 2013, prompted the launch of a government website—HealthCare.gov—to help people purchase health insurance coverage. Almost immediately after going live, the website crashed. What went wrong isn't as simple as failing to do load testing. | 
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