Load testing – MEETUP #2
Hi to all attendees of the Lyon Testing Meetup #2 and those interested in performance Testing, …
Easily measure the load time of a web page – Web console
A long load time to display your web page may unfortunately frustrate the user who will leave the website (the maximum waiting time tolerated is estimated to 4 seconds approximately). Even before landing on your page, the user has to find your website and Google Bots will tend to reference it better if the loading time is below 2 seconds.
It means the loading time of a web page is a critical feature.
There are various ways to measure the load time of a web page. For example:
- the console in the browser
- on-line websites
- browser plugins
- specific tools measuring loading time
User Story and Epic. What is it?
Definition of User Story
The specifications are often a big cause of failure in projects. Bad specifications could lead to misunderstandings about the final product, wrong functionalities, and not required features.
The objective of “User stories” is to respond quickly and with less cost to modifications of requirements (new user needs for example).
With agile methodologies, the US is written to share the vision of developers/testers/project leaders instead of continually reviewing during the redaction phases.
We find this sharing also in the V cycle through the very formal notion of requirements reviews after this one is drafted (less + but very motionless process – no live modification).
The ” user stories ” describe the features that will be useful. The ” user stories ” consist of three aspects ( principle of 3C) : …
Friday all joking aside
A small tool to perform exploratory tests
Exploratory testing methodology keeps growing nowadays.
Those tests allow the free expression of a tester without following a test plan.
To run those tests, there is no need for a specific or complex software.
Here is the presentation of a very simple and efficient Chrome plugin “Exploratory Testing Chrome Extension”