Have you been wondering about the rise of open-source alternatives to LoadRunner and other legacy performance tools? Why is there such a strong shift to open source performance testing? Here are key concepts that will allow you to make the transition from centralized testing with legacy tools to widely distributed testing with Apache JMeter and other open source tools. You’ll see how a small Center of Excellence (CoE) team can drive a 10x or 100x increase in testing by handing out logins to self-service tools instead of being a finite resource for test preparation and execution. Start Testing for Free. Create your free CA BlazeMeter account today. https://www.blazemeter.com/#signup

1. Moving to Open-Source Tools—How to
Increase Performance Test Coverage Through
Shift-Left and Democratization
Dave Karow
Sr. Principal Product Marketing Manager
Dave.Karow@blazemeter.com

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Agenda
LEGACY TOOLS CREATED THE COE BOTTLENECK
AGILE MEANS ELIMINATING HANDOFFS AND BOTTLENECKS
WHY OPEN-SOURCE PERFORMANCE TESTING?
COE 2.0: FACILITATING SHIFT LEFT/DEMOCRATIZATION
GETTING STARTED WITHOUT REINVENTING THE WHEEL
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3. Legacy Tools Created the COE Bottleneck

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Complexity

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Restrictive
Licensing
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The Center of Excellence (COE) Was Born
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Small number
of experts +
scarcity of
infrastructure
= a queue
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8. Agile Means Eliminate
Bottlenecks and Handoffs

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Core Principles Underlying DevOps
§ Flow (small batch sizes, elimination of constraints)
§ Feedback (fast discovery of defects, swarming to resolve)
§ Continuous experimentation (local discoveries shared globally)
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How Flow Is Achieved in Agile
§ Many small teams working in parallel
§ Teams are self-contained to avoid costly handoffs

11. Why Open-Source Performance Testing?

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Why Open-Source Performance Testing?
▪ Self-service, pain-driven,
zero-friction model
– Just download and start
– Learn on YouTube
– Spin up on public cloud
– Open market of shared knowledge,
plugins, design patterns

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What Doesn’t Come for Free With Open Source
▪ Provisioning
▪ Reporting
▪ Collaboration
▪ Test management
▪ Support

14. COE 2.0:
Facilitating Shift Left/Democratization

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Self-Service
§ Web UI for fast onboarding, ad hoc
testing, rich reporting and collaboration
§ Open APIs and CLIs for fast automation,
integration without needing a plug-in
Hand out logins, API keys and interfaces; let them do the rest

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Parallelize Everything
§ Compress test cycles to minutes.
§ Grow coverage without adding
cycle time.
§ The best queue is a queue with
just one test in it.
The entire test takes only as long as
the single longest component

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Amplify Open Source, Don’t Constrain It
§ Scalability
§ Reporting
§ Collaboration
§ Integration
Provide an execution environment that amplifies, rather than
constrains, the use of open-source tools
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18. Getting Started
Without Reinventing the Wheel

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DEMOCRATIZING
PERFORMANCE TESTING IN THE
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY ERA
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100% open-
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Performance
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