Past Events

The way we develop and manage applications is evolving. This evolution is pushing organisations to think about quality testing in new ways to ensure it follows the evolution that is underway.

DevOps does not signify that testing and quality is out of scope but rather that it is embedded in every aspect of the application lifecycle from inception to EOL (End of Life).

More specifically, as it pertains to load testing, we are seeing a growing trend around moving from performance testing as a planned phase executed close to go-live to something that we engineer into every step of the application development lifecycle. In this brief talk we will take a quick look into this these new trends, it’s inherited implications and the advantages that come with it.

CI/CD is not a fad - it is a transformation of how products hit the market. GitHub Actions are now an integral part of developers' ecosystem to automate workflows. Starting from linting to production deployments, GitHub Actions are ubiquitous. In this presentation, we are going to see how we can leverage GitHub Actions for JMeter test plans to run performance tests for developers' events such as push, merge, new release etc. We will see how to integrate your test plans into GitHub Actions, scheduling, test execution matrix, results collection and more in a demo.

Collaborative efforts in performance testing.

A significant issue with running load tests is contending with extraneous factors introducing errors into your test. Dave will talk about how to automatically remove outliers stemming from a specific common scenario using a Groovy script. Dave will show an example of how we can filter out the ramp-up and down timeframes from results and how we can focus on true peak performance.

Heath will discuss ACTs move to RedLine13 and why it was such a pivotal transition for their organization.

Leandro Melendez, Señor Performo, will talk about his new book, The Hitchhiking Guide To Load Testing Projects. A fun step-by-step walkthrough guide into load tests. In this book, he teaches fun examples, stories, and engaging tales about the steps (in order) that a performance engineer should take while executing load testing projects. But, it is not all fun and games, as he includes, after each fun story, all the official terms and accurate descriptions of a traditional load test project from beginning to end. Following the book's guidelines, he will share details around what the book describes, some tips, and inside looks into the content. All the information he will be sharing will align with the steps and best practices that a performance engineer should be following when doing a load test project.

Nik will talk about developing a Command line driver for Redline13 using the rest API. As part of this talk, Nik will discuss the running of tests and doing data extraction and test run analysis through a CLI wrapper.