The Test Therapist

March 15, 2021

Availability Testing | what , how and why?

A while ago , a colleague of mine was asking me about the availability test and my first answer was , do you mean soak/endurance test? , but I was wrong , both tests have something in common but they are totally different in the objective of the test. What is Availability Testing? As a […]
March 9, 2021

Software Testing : Being a specialized or do anything a tester can do

We all have or had been in this debate even inside ourselves , which is better do everything a software tester can do , and here I mean to do manual , automation , performance , security , and anything else may be related to software testing or being a specialized and here I mean […]
February 25, 2021

Don’t commit to a tool and start with POC

Which performance testing tool you’re going to use in your next project , each one of us has a favorite tool or a go to tool , one that always in your mind. But this is not the case always , we may have some limitations which affect which tool we should use , I […]
February 1, 2021

Unusual performance tests for unusual situations

Not all performance test types are famously equal , some types are used less often than others. That doesn’t mean of course that they are not important , they are and in some cases so important but unusual tests needs unusual situations. I am going to focus on the following performance test types , we […]
January 23, 2021

The hidden cost of slowness

There is always a debate about how important is the speed to the software industry. They say and I quote “if the customer/user is not complaining , there is no issue and we are fine”. I will try here to discuss this in a different way. what is the hidden cost you pay when your […]
November 2, 2020

How to Set your performance testing acceptance criteria

This is always a question for people who are doing performance testing (as a general term) for the first time and also those who don’t have a specific performance requirements. What numbers to compare to? what are the current response time means? is it good or bad? How to set an acceptance criteria? All the […]
June 21, 2020

What a performance test report saying about your system.

When evaluating a performance test report most of the times we are looking for the response time and specifically the Average response time. But if you take a deeper look , the performance test report elaborates more information. In this article I will use one of JMeter basic reports “Summary Report” as example to explain […]
June 11, 2020

How to add security checks to your manual / automation test suite

Let me tell you that you can have a basic / moderate security checks in your manual test suite by extending your test cases in two different areas : Input validation Authentication Most of test suites if not all of them are already testing the sections mentioned above but mostly just a basic checks like […]
June 5, 2020

Performance Test Script Validation – Why & How?

The main goal for any performance test script simply is to work , but is this enough? I mean is it enough that your script has no errors ? No errors do not mean that your script is working flawlessly , you may get a 200 response code but the script functionality is not working […]
May 3, 2020

Factors that affect your performance test results

The performance test process is not a complex process but it has lots of things to keep an eye on , in this article I will focus on factors that personally I think it will affect your test results. I will try to demonstrate the effect in most of them and I will put some […]