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In this new work from home era, a lot of companies have moved more and more towards online services and new tools to keep their productivity at similar levels as before. It’s harder and harder to keep track of all the tools and services you use on a regular basis to test all your websites and API services of your business. Here at LoadFocus it gets easier and easier to make use of the integrated testing services we provide as of today.

The busy month of November full of fun times and hard work has finished and it’s time to share the updates we made to Loadero during the month. We added new media files for participant’s webcam simulation, made various performance improvements, added browsers and published the last post in our popular series about using Javascript for test automation. Here’s a list of the main updates in Loadero this month.

Apache JMeter is a Java-based, open source testing tool, which can help you create and run functional and load tests for Websites, APIs (REST and SOAP) and other web services. In this example we are going to have a look on how to create and run a JMeter test using a CSV file for our data, and consume the data in our test from that CSV file. First, let’s open JMeter and create a new JMeter test script. Add a Thread Group Inside the Thread Group add the following.

Congratulations on getting to part 4 of the “A beginner’s guide to test automation with Javascript (Nighwatch.js)” blog series! This part will help you to improve your test script (and make it cooler). We’ll explain different style suggestions and the overall script structure that we follow in Loadero to bring your script to a new level.

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Artillery is an open-source command-line tool purpose-built for load testing and smoke testing web applications. It is written in JavaScript and it supports testing HTTP, Socket.io, and WebSockets APIs. This article will get you started with load testing your Node.js APIs using Artillery. You’ll be able to detect and fix critical performance issues before you deploy code to production.

We recently announced Ably's Control API, a REST API that enables you to manage Ably's configuration programmatically. You can now use the Control API to configure anything previously only configurable via the Ably dashboard. The Ably platform is designed around four pillars of dependability: Performance, Integrity, Reliability, and Availability.

October is over and it’s time to share the newest updates to Loadero that were made during the month. We’ve been working on adding a WebRTC metrics table for a long time, and are very happy to announce that it is available in the results reports. This update makes it very easy to find out about some of the possible issues in video calls. While this might be the most important of the news, we got more stuff to let you improve your tests. Here is what we added to Loadero in October.

You have just clicked the button to run your test, but how soon will the first participant start the test? And when will you be able to explore the results reports? Each test run goes through multiple stages before a results report is generated. In this blog post we are going to explain everything you need to know about test run statuses you can see in Loadero!

We all want our websites to be responsive and useful. However, the biggest correlation between website performance and business results is seen by improving the performance and speed of your website. Users get bored if they have to wait for too long to load your website or application. Performance Testing and Load Testing your website and restful APIs will help you understand better how your website and web services behave when a lot of users access your website at the same time.