Steve Souders from Google: "Focus on front-end performance"

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Dec 162008

Steve Souders recently wrote up an excellent article on how to build high performance web sites. His advice is to focus on what the end-user experiences, which means focusing on everything from the HTML construction to browser caching to network infrastructure and delivery. He provides 14 “rules” to follow and it’s a great eye opener!

Steve is also the author of YSlow, a plugin for the popular Firebug tool. We strongly encourage all our customers to use Firebug and YSlow when doing any load and performance testing on their site. They are great tools to go along with Selenium IDE and BrowserMob.

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Posted by Patrick Lightbody at 10:46 am

Open Source: You don't have to hide from it

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Dec 162008

Sanjay Dange wrote up an excellent summary of why QA professionals don’t have to hide from open source. You can find the article on his blog and reproduced at Test Republic. I made the following comment to his article and I think it’s worthwhile to share here as well, as it explains why we set out to create BrowserMob:

As a contributor to Selenium, an open source functional testing tool, I have also seen a lot more willingness to try out open source technologies.

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Posted by Patrick Lightbody at 10:39 am
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