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Methods & Tools - February 2019
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To avoid wasting time finding bugs that are not related to performance, it is important to have a stable application that has been thoroughly tested.

If load tests are made just before the production deployment, there will be little time left for our tests. This means that if the application has not been functionally and technically tested (unit, integration, etc.), every bug detected during the load tests will jeopardize the start of production at the planned date and under good conditions. The best digital teams have now accelerated far beyond every two week. The Guardian newspaper in London commonly releases several thousand times a week and Amazon.com releases on average every 11 seconds.

Load testing (even if it can be automated with CI) is not here to replace Non Regression testing.

Source: "Master Apache JMeter From load testing to DevOps", Antonio Gomes Rodrigues, Philippe Mouawad and Milamber, https://leanpub.com/master-jmeter-from-load-test-to-devops

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Tools: XCFit a.k.a (XCUI, Cucumberish and Fitnesse Integration Tests) is a full stack Xcode BDD framework for iOS apps written in Swift. XCFit allows us to write BDD Style API/Contract level, UI and Acceptance Tests with Swift in human readable language using tools like Given/When/Then, Cucumber and Fitnesse in Xcode. We can still use Apple’s brand new UI Testing framework (XCUI) under the hood of XCFit and Cucumberish.

Tools: OmniDB is an open source browser-based app designed to access and manage many different Database Management systems, e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL. OmniDB can run either as an App or via Browser, combining the flexibility needed for various access paths with a design that puts security first. OmniDB is actively developed, automatically tested on a variety of databases and browsers and comes with full documentation.