Thanks to the nearly 300 people who attended yesterday’s R2 Release webinar! I wanted to follow the webinar with this post pointing everyone to some of the resources I mentioned in the webinar.

• Slides: You can find the slides online now in our library
• Video Recording: The video recording of the webinar will be posted to Telerik TV shortly – it’s uploading in the background as I type this; however, it will take several days to get through the processing workflow.
• Demo App: The demo app is currently hosted on GitHub. You can poke around the repository and look ...

In this final post of my performance testing series I’ll help you figure out where to start, then pass on a few resources I’ve found extremely helpful in my own efforts.

What do I Monitor?

Figuring out which metrics, measurements, and counters to monitor can be extremely daunting—there are hundreds of individual counters in Performance Monitor alone! In most cases you don’t need anywhere near the entire set of metrics. A few counters will give us all the information you generally need for starting your performance testing work.

Most performance testing gurus will tell you just a few items will ...

I fully admit it: I’m extraordinarily biased to having developers and testers co-located in the same room, or even at the same desk. I’ve seen the great collaboration that ensues as testers and devs bring their different skillsets, experience, and views together while working together on project tasks. While I’m biased in that direction, I’ve also led and been a part of teams working in different states and on different sides of the globe—and we were highly successful at our efforts thanks to working hard at establishing a great collaborative environment.

Collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a central pillar ...

Updated: I realized that I didn’t make it clear I was writing this post from a vendor’s viewpoint! My choices of what to automate below are based on the view of a tester working on the team for this component—the creators of this control. You, as a consumer, should rarely, rarely ever automate third party controls or components. You may need some high-level test to ensure custom functionality works correctly, but your value is much better focused on testing your own software. Don’t invest in automating Google, Telerik, or other commercial products.

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When you’re working with automation, choosing what ...

We’ve got a great new release of Test Studio coming up which contains a number of tremendous new features and some great updates to existing functionality.The list is long, but here are a few highlights:

• Dive into your web application’s performance with our new performance testing feature set
• Bring your manual test cases into Test Studio where you can manage them, record results, and even create “fast forward” automated steps to offload tedious prerequisite setup tasks
• Take advantage of HTML 5 with Test Studio’s enhanced support for interacting with a variety of HTML5’s common tags
• Improved element management: search the ...

We have a special virtual room running today as part of the broader EuroStar virtual conference series. Telerik’s virtual conference room gives folks interested in automated testing a spot to come and see demos and ask questions of our team.

We’re also raffling off a license for Test Studio – all you’ll need to do is go download a trial copy of Test Studio and install it. Let the folks in the virtual conference room know what e-mail address you used to register Test Studio and you’ll be entered in the raffle!

Come stop by our virtual booth and say ...

Are you going to, or considering going to, Agile Testing Days in Berlin, Germany on 14-17 November?

I’ve got a limited set of discount codes that will get you 25% off the ticket price! Please contact me via e-mail: jim.holmes@telerik.com if you’d like some. No strings attached, although we'd love to meet up with you while we’re there!

(BTW: I’ll be doing a 25 minute session on Tuesday, 15 Nov. at 15:20 in room D3. I’ll be covering common test automation woes.)

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Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of ...

Performance testing isn’t something you can slap together and figure out as you go. While you certainly can (and likely will!) adjust your approach as you move through your project, you do indeed need to sit down and get some specifics laid out around your testing effort before you begin working.

First and foremost: set expectations and goals.

Ensure everyone’s clear on why you’re undertaking the performance testing project. If you are looking to meet specific metrics for delivering your system then you’ll need to be extremely detailed and methodical in your initial coordination. Does your system have specific metrics ...

If you've been monitoring our roadmap or other announcement channels, you may have heard we’re bringing performance testing to Test Studio. This is a pretty exciting step for us, and it lets us bring some great functionality to help you continue to boost the quality of the software you’re delivering.

I thought I’d take some time to lay down some of my opinions and experiences around performance testing in general as a bit of a lead in to later posts which will showcase our performance testing functionality. I’ll be writing a number of posts over the next few weeks to ...