My Journey into the World of Performance and Load Testing
By an innovative use of functional test scripts running in a Continuous Testing Server with load testing capability.
Most of my articles are about E2E (via UI) test automation, i.e., black-box functional testing. I also invented a new performance and load testing approach utilising functional UI tests and Continuous Testing with parallel execution. In 2016, I accomplished a major load-testing challenge for a large tech company with this approach, in a matter of days. This article tells this story.
In 2018, Business Wire referred to real-browser-load-testing as “Groundbreaking Technology”.
I switched my day work from Programming (as a 10X lead Java Contractor) to End-to-end Automated Testing (as a test automation engineer) in ~2010. For whys? Check out this story series.
In 2016, I worked as a contract test automation (functional) consultant in a large tech company (with ~500 IT staff). My first task, as usual, was to rescue the…
