Ways to visualize k6 results
A k6 load test can generate a ton of data. Without a way to organize the data, you'll struggle to analyze test results. Fortunately, there are many ways to turn results into data-rich visualizations.
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Modern Software Development For Today's Systems & Applications
March 2022
There's more than Performance Testing - Chaos Engineering with k6 and Steadybit
Software development is entirely different today than it was a few years ago. Back then, we usually had a big monolith running on our own hardware. We mainly did performance tests to see if the hardware resources were sufficient to handle the load. Today, we develop software in a distributed environment with multiple services which may even run on different cloud platforms. With performance testing, we try to identify performance and resilience issues in these kinds of environments.
How to analyze load testing results with k6 (k6 Office Hours #47)
So you've run your k6 load test, but how do you analyze your load test results? In this video, Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh talk about different ways to visualize your test results and make sense of all that data. A big part of the value of performance testing is in the analysis of the results, so presenting and reporting test data in a format that stakeholders can understand will help you improve your performance outcomes.
How to make Kubernetes clusters production-ready with Crossplane (k6 Office Hours #46)
How do you get your Kubernetes clusters production-ready? Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, demonstrates how he uses Crossplane, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to manage and monitor a Kubernetes cluster.
Real browser testing with xk6-browser
Did you know you could do real browser testing with k6? It's called xk6-browser, and it turns k6 into a browser automation tool as well as a load test. Leveraging the power of the xk6 extension system for k6, xk6-browser brings browser automation using real users. In this video, Nicole shows how you can get started with xk6-browser.
Load testing for DevOps with Viktor Farcic (k6 Office Hours #45)
How can you use load testing for DevOps? What kind of performance testing can or should be included in CI/CD pipelines? Viktor Farcic from Upbound and DevOps Toolkit join Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh to discuss how he sees k6 fitting into the daily duties of a DevOps engineer.
How to Perform Load Testing with k6 using GitHub Actions
You can find a collection of k6 scripts and GitHub workflows referenced in this tutorial here. In this tutorial, we will look into how to integrate performance testing in your development process with GitHub Actions and k6. For a video tutorial 🎥 , check out the following tutorial on YouTube. k6 is an open-source load testing tool for testing the performance of APIs, microservices, and websites.
Private load zones for load testing, with Pawel Suwala and Samuel Regandell (k6 Office Hours #44)
Load testing on the cloud definitely has its advantages, but what if you need to load test behind a firewall? Here to talk about using private load zones in k6 are k6 CTO Pawel Suwala and k6 Backend Lead Samuel Regandell. Private load zones are a new feature of k6 Cloud that will allow you to run load tests against applications that are not publicly accessible and also use your own AWS account to generate the load.
Why k6 does not support multiple scripting languages?
At k6 we regularly get a request to support another programming language in addition to JavaScript. Go developers would like to write test scripts in Go, Java developers migrating from jMeter would like to write tests in Java. We have evaluated these requests and discussed in detail internally if this is a good direction for the k6 tool. Ultimately we have decided against supporting more programming languages for scripting. Below is our reasoning for this decision.
How to use k6: a walkthrough of k6 Cloud
In this video, our k6 Sales Specialist, Bill Rainaud, demonstrates how to use k6 with this walkthrough of k6 Cloud, the load testing as a service platform from Grafana Labs.