Web Performance Testing Group
One of the benefits of being in central London during the week is the number of events it is possible to attend.
With too much choice, it is sometimes possible to miss opportunities to expand your knowledge, but yesterday I took the opportunity to attend for the first time, a meeting of the London Web Performance Group being held at the London Canal Museum near King's Cross.
David Burns spoke about web performance testing and continuous integration. He described how he had developed processes for building web performance testing into development processes and is now able to do this with continuous integration.
Although initially this began by asking helpdesk staff to time the loading of web pages using stop watches (long ago in 2006), he now uses Selenium Web Driver in combination with BrowserMob Proxy. The latter allows data export in the HTTP Archive format (HAR) (more information). This data can then be viewed, aggregated and analysed. The long Q&A session provided plenty of time for discussion of the techniques, how Ajax can be monitored, and alternative methodologies.
Perhaps there are some ideas here to investigate for security testing.
Future meetings of this group will be looking at Ajax, and performance testing of mobile applications. I have joined the group to receive future announcements.
Posted on: 19 January 2012 at 08:34 hrs
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