There’s a new set of emerging technologies around Website Performance Optimization (or WPO). Most of these focus on the browser side of the problem and have all sorts of rules to suggest how best to inline your images, compress and minify your JavaScript and CSS, using CDN’s for static data and so on. But with the explosion of RESTful APIs on the cloud and the proliferation of mobile apps on iPhone and Android, WPO is really a misnomer. We should probably call it WebPage Performance Optimization.
Archive for HTML5
Testing for Today’s Most Popular Apps…The Holy Grail of Testing?
I’ve been in the testing business for many years now and I’ve come across a lot of grandiose claims by test tool vendors with regards to features and capabilities that just sound too good to be true. And in many cases, they are.
When it comes to today’s world of smartphones and tablets and the explosive growth of web and mobile applications, it’s mind-blowing to see the sheer quantity of apps out there. If you look at the number of apps available today on just three of the leading app stores (Apple, Android and Facebook), there’s over a million applications, with tens of thousands of new ones every single month. Full Post »
Announcing blitz.io – and we are hiring!
We just launched our public beta of blitz.io. We wanted to bring the excitement and simplicity of git push for cloud deployments to load and performance testing. As a matter of fact, we think performance testing ought to be a social sport! Most load testing solutions on the cloud today are built heavy (remnants of the J2EE world), require major investment in time and resources, not to mention you have to talk to an expert to accomplish anything meaningful. By adapting common dev tools and dramatically simplifying this, we hope to make cloud performance testing incredibly easy.
Testing HTML5 Applications
There are two kinds of test tool vendors in the world. Those that count in binary and those that don’t. Okay, stale joke aside there are those that test applications (like Mercury, now part of HP, IBM, etc) and those that test the infrastructure (like IXIA, Spirent, etc). Mu was founded on the premise that this boundary is blurring rapidly and there needs to be a new kind of testing solution that spans the layers between applications and infrastructures and looks at the service as a whole. As we look into the imminent future of HTML5 and the innovation in mobile and cloud apps, you can see this in play right now. And yet all these test tool vendors are lagging behind this brave new world.
