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How to Avoid Your Financial Application Crash Under Load

We talked to our expert from Performance Lab’s load testing department about financial application testing. This post shares experience of testing financial applications and transaction systems, along with some life hacks on how to choose the perfect timing for such performance tests.

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Performance Testing for Online Games and Game Servers

Online gaming is booming, and the demand for online games will be persistent in upcoming years. The global gaming market was valued at USD 173.70 billion in 2020, and it is expected to reach a value of USD 314.40 billion by 2026. One of the important growth factors is, perhaps, the pandemic, since multiple lockdowns made people stay at homes and turn to game platforms to pass the time. But it also created unexpected load growth on gaming servers all around the world.
Obviously, in such circumstances the QA sector of load testing for online games is increasing, too. In this article, we will outline what is load testing in games, why it is an absolute must to performance test games on a regular basis, what types of performance tests are applicable in the online gamedev industry.

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Performance Lab Grabs GoodFirms Recognition for Exclusive Mobile App Development Services

GoodFirms evaluated Performance Lab and concluded that they provide excellent testing services to their clients, whether a startup or a large, well-established company. The company is equipped with a team of developers that ensures that the latest development guidelines are followed during the development process, and product quality is maintained. The developers access the latest platforms for native and hybrid app development, which offers a maximum return to the clients. The team works closely with the clients to properly understand their ideas and business models to develop the mobile app in a way that meets their client’s vision.

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Performance and Load Testing with K6 – open-source tool and cloud service

What is k6? Who is it for? k6 is a popular open source tool for load testing built for engineering teams. Born as a startup, k6 was acquired by Grafana Labs in 2021, perhaps for its ability of integration with a really large number of third-party tools. In this article, we will lay out our experience of working with k6 and our opinion on how to make the best of using it.

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Performance Testing for Game Development: Process Automation

Mobile games require performance testing before they hit the markets, otherwise a game built for a high-end device can get complained about by thousands of users and cause financial and reputational losses. Luckily, most key market players do realize it and run performance and load tests on a regular basis, during development, before every next release, etc., so the testing process becomes a necessary routine.

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