In advance of the 2016 holiday season, Sauce Labs and BlazeMeter teamed up for a webinar that presented step-by-step instructions on how to use JMeter and Selenium to get real-world results from your front end-while applying load to the backend.

1. August, 2016
COMBINING FRONTEND AND
BACKEND TESTING
P A R T 1 : F U N C T I O N A L ( F R O N T E N D ) T E S T I N G

2. THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
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1. Think of your users!
2. Quality Automation
3. Test Function and Performance
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A B O U T F U N C T I O N A L T E S T I N G

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WHY FUNCTIONAL TESTING
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So stuff works.

4. HOW DO WE FUNCTIONALLY TEST?
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E X E R C I S E T H E A P P

5. AUTOMATION FOR FUNCTIONAL
TESTING
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C L O N I N G Y O U R S E L F – Y O U R O W N R O B O T A R M Y
Feature 1
Feature 2
Feature 3

6. THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY
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Continuous
Delivery
Fully automated
Development process
Automated testing in
high frequency
Dev, Ops & QA
functions merge to
one team
Continuous
Integration
Full adoption of Agile
Automated testing
dominates;
manual only for debugging
Dev, Ops & QA
collaborate closely
Fast Waterfall
Initial adoption of Agile
Automated testing
begins
Dev, Ops & QA start to
communicate
Waterfall
Traditional sequential
design model
Manual testing
dominates
Dev, Ops & QA
completely separate
Process
People
Tools

7. How Sauce works
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The World’s Largest Automated Testing Cloud
for Web & Mobile Apps
Just point your tests to Sauce.
Selenium or
Appium test scripts.
Test data
Instant access to secure,
pristine VMs + mobile devices
VM
Improve quality with
massive coverage.
Increase velocity by
testing in parallel
(avg 10x faster)
HOW SAUCE WORKS
Rapidly review, share and debug.
results
commands
Sauce Connect
Proxy

8. DEMO

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The Performance Engineering
Platform for Devops
Sid Narang
August 2016

10. 2011
FOUNDED
$7.7M
FUNDING
120,000
USERS
1,000,000
TESTS
SF, TLV
OFFICES

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Why Performance
Testing?

12. Three Things - Performance Testing
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Understand Bottlenecks/Saturation Points
Quality Automation
Test Functional and Performance

13. SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE
PRODUCTIVITY
• Run x10 more tests
• In a fraction of the time
• By x10 more people
TESTING
Sent to Testing Test Succeeded Test Failed
TOOL-SET
Developer
DevOps
QA
OPs
PEOPLE

14. http://www.example.com
SIMULATED
CLIENTS
Performance Testing

15. Key Performance Indicators

16. Cross-platform, open-source load
and performance testing tool
Works at the protocol level to
simulate client requests at scale
BlazeMeter is 100% JMeter
compatible. Think “JMeter in the
Cloud”
JMeter Architecture

17. Recording a Test Plan
Web Recorder Mobile Recorder

18. What Makes BlazeMeter So Unique?
Pure SaaS, No Setup
100% Open-Source Compatibility
Public Cloud and/or Behind The Firewall
Native Mobile Testing Built-In
Dedicated Servers On-Demand

19. BlazeMeter Customers
Testing is at The Heart of Continuous Delivery

20. Harness The Power of JMeter Coupled with Enterprise
Features, Integrations, Reporting, Support & Security
BlazeMeter – Enterprise Grade

21. Simulate tests from the cloud and behind your firewall.
Use open source scripts and can record your own script automatically.
Run large load testing and automated continuous testing.
Be used extremely fast and yet meet the entire enterprise needs
What is BlazeMeter?
One Performance Testing Platform. All Essentials.
The only available solution that can:

22. Test response time and user experience
from different geographic locations
(e.g. Japan, Brazil, US)
Enjoy unique reports per GEO as well as
an aggregated report
Multi GEO Testing
Web/Mobile Application
APIEnterprise Private Cloud Web Interface
Architecture

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Process
Create
Scenario
Define
Parameters
Run Test
Analyze
Results

24. TOOL-SET TESTING
Sent to Testing Test Succeeded Test Failed
Developer
DevOps
QA
OPs
PEOPLE
Test Orchestration for Modern Software
Delivery

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Demo

26. Three Things - Performance Testing
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Understand Bottlenecks/Saturation Points
Quality Automation
Test Functional and Performance

27. Automate From Any CI/CD

28. C
What are your Options?
Takes days, even
weeks.
Risk postponing or
missing release.
Continuous Testing
by BlazeMeter
Requires No Time,
Ensures Quality.
RUN
ALL TESTS
CUT
CORNERS
CONTINUOUS
TESTING
Risk placing faulty
product into
production.
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29. Continuous Testing
Run unlimited tests as part of Continuous Integration and Continuous
Deployment
– Automatically 1
Create Tests
2
Configure Pass/Fail
3
Sit Back, Relax
Define test and thresholds
for JMeter and eight other
open source tools.
Store in GIT repository
Update continuously.
Set tests to run
automatically.
If test causes build to fail you’ll
know instantly and can
immediately take action.

30. Test Performance of
new code
Test Performance of
every deployment
Test Performance of
every build
Test Performance in
production
SHIFT LEFT SHIFT RIGHT
SHIFT LEFT AND RIGHT

31. Next Steps
Create your Account at blazemeter.com
BlazeMeter's Performance Testing Blog blazemeter.com/blog
BlazeMeter’s Knowledge Base guide.blazemeter.com
Twitter - @blazemeter
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Thank you!