Monthly Archives: August 2011

Testing Has a Point of Diminishing Returns

Posted on August 30, 2011 by David Tobey

Testing of course is vital, if not central, to programming. That said, there is a point of diminishing returns where it takes up more time than its worth. The line is crossed at different points depending on the situation. Continue reading →

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Automated Functional Testing with JMeter

Posted on August 11, 2011 by David Tobey

Jmeter bills itself more as a load testing tool, but we’ve used it extensively for functional testing as well. For us, functional testing amounts to pretending you are a (single) user hitting the application with various requests on the way … Continue reading →

Posted in How To's, Programming, SoftSlate Commerce, Web Ops | 4 Comments