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.

Zhimin Zhan

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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…

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.