NTD 2023

Ping! Your phone has an alert - an escalation from support. Website performance has deteriorated, sessions are dropping, and it is late in the evening. So open your laptop and grab a drink. It will be a long night of performance debugging and issue fixing.

I don't want you to have this experience.

Performance testing, in my experience, is a skill many testers don't often get to explore and develop. The result? Reactive support escalations at inconvenient times filled with stress. But we can change that. Join me in this hands-on workshop based on my experience testing performance for clients with load-intensive applications. We will dive deep into performance testing using K6 and JavaScript. You will learn:

* The business case of why performance is so vital to organisations. The cost in user retention and revenue.
* Models such as RAIL and the Golden Signals, these models help you better understand performance requirements.
* Write K6 tests using JavaScript against APIs inspired by issues discovered with my clients.
* Better interpret the results of performance tests to have real actionable insights you can share with your team.

By our working together you will gain confidence in performance testing APIs. A confidence which will help you discover performance issues early. Being proactive addressing them before production incidents occur. More importantly protecting your evening and avoiding that support call.

Key takeaways:
​1. Understand the business and technical fundamentals which underpin performance testing.
2. Learn how to write K6 performance tests for APIs using JavaScript.
3. Interpret performance test results accurately to identify important performance issues.​​​