Ever wonder what would happen if your favorite website’s database went down? Would anyone care? After all, if the database goes down you’ve got bigger problems. Would you expect to receive a friendly message instead of an ugly error code? If you answered yes, congratulations! You’ve thought about failure testing. What is failure testing? Failure testing […]
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API Performance Testing, Part 1
July 25, 2013 by 3 Comments
Is there such a thing as too fast when it comes to API performance testing? Unless you’re trying to play a game engineered around a busy loop sized for a 286, probably not. We always want to get more done in less time. That’s why the Constant Contact Web Services team is charged with building […]