There are many aspects of application performance, but they broadly fall into two categories: frontend performance and backend performance. As a tester, it’s important to know the differences between the two and how that impacts the way you approach your tests. In this blog, I’ll provide a high-level overview of frontend performance testing and backend performance testing, including pros and cons of each one.

In today’s digital age, security has become a top priority for businesses of all sizes. With the increasing number of cyber-attacks and data breaches, ensuring that your website and applications are secure is essential. Usually, access to websites that are actively being developed or are intended for private/internal usage within an organization is restricted. A common way to do this is with custom SSL certificates. This ensures that the website won’t be publicly available.

Performance testing uses workflows in parallel to test a system’s infrastructure to ensure a product works successfully for many users at the same time.

Modern applications are built on a microservices architecture that leverages cloud-native technologies. This architecture has many benefits regarding scalability and fault-tolerance of individual components, but it also increases the complexity of the applications, mostly due to the interdependencies between services. This complexity makes it difficult for engineers to fully understand how their applications will react to abnormal conditions, such as a dependency failure or performance degradation.