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Re: Ask a SmartBear: Your Biggest Test Automation Gaps
I think this really depends on what you are wanting to accomplish with your performance and load testing. SmartBear offers a UI load testing tool (LoadComplete). This is a great tool for performance and load testing on the front end. LoadUI in the ReadyAPI suite can be used to perform load testing on the API services on the back end. My team works with our infrastructure team to run API load test in conjunction with Dynatrace. This gives us a great picture of how performant our API services are and if the hardware supporting it can handle the requests. You can use TestComplete to set up tests that will check on the response time on the UI and either give a warning or fail depending on the amount of time it takes to respond. For a full picture of how performant an application is I believe you need to do backend and front end performance/load testing. This provides better overall coverage and context. If API services and hardware are not optimized and performant then your front end will not perform well. If they are but your front end is not performant you have UI issues.4.1KViews1like0CommentsRe: Ask a SmartBear: Your Biggest Test Automation Gaps
Per person that will vary depending on the experience and technical knowledge of the person. From a company perspective, I can tell you the once we started using TestComplete that we went from having a single automated test to several hundred within the first year. 4 years into using the tool and we now have thousands of tests. Just this week we ran 45 regressions equalling about 8000 tests run. Making sure that you have a solid framework and design plan that doesn't result in a maintenance debt that is unattainable is key.4.7KViews2likes0CommentsRe: Ask a SmartBear: Your Biggest Test Automation Gaps
How do you determine the life cycle of an automated test? At some point, the tests become stale or redundant and no longer valuable. How do you track your automation coverage? What percentage of an application is being tested by your regression suite? Thanks, Quenton4.8KViews0likes1Comment