This is a recording of a presentation given by k6 Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven during Cambridge University Press's QA Week 2021, and it talks about why load tests as code is a superior approach in many cases and why k6 is a great tool to implement it.

Learn more about k6:
Site: https://bit.ly/3rYhVsE
GitHub: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
Docs: https://bit.ly/3bZEhEC

Learn more about Nicole:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_vanderhoeven
Slides used for this talk: https://slides.nicolevanderhoeven.com/2021-load-tests-as-code/

0:00 Intro
3:31 The history of load testing tools
5:20 Scripting in a GUI-driven tool
12:42 Execution in a GUI-driven tool
17:11 Continuous Testing in a GUI-drievn tool
19:25 k6 in one page
20:27 Demo
35:09 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
37:46 Contact details