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Performance Testing

Boost System Performance During Traffic Surges with Spike Testing

Introduction Spike testing is a type of performance testing that evaluates how a system responds to sudden, extreme increases in load . Unlike stress…

Mar 1, 2025 · 4 min read
Testing

Achieving Better User Engaging via Realistic Load Testing in K6

Introduction Load testing is essential to evaluate how a system behaves under expected and peak loads. Traditionally, we rely on metrics like request…

Mar 1, 2025 · 3 min read
Testing

Smoke Tests Explained: Key Strategies Using K6

In this blog, i jot down notes on what is smoke test, how it got its name, and how to approach the same in k6. The term smoke testing originates from…

Feb 16, 2025 · 2 min read
Programming

Learning Notes #73 - Awesome Tricks on K6

K6 is an awesome, simple load testing tool. There are many CLI options available to K6. In this blog i jot down notes on some of the nice options ava…

Feb 14, 2025 · 3 min read
Programming

Learning Notes #69 - Getting Started with k6: Writing Your First Load Test

Performance testing is a crucial part of ensuring the stability and scalability of web applications. k6 is a modern, open-source load testing tool th…

Feb 5, 2025 · 2 min read