Performance & Load Testing Library
TestGuild’s collected coverage of performance, load, and stress testing, from tooling comparisons to real-world scaling stories, across articles, webinars, podcasts, courses, and talks.
New to Performance & Load Testing? Start with our guide →Articles (51)
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Browser-Based Load Testing vs. JMeter: When Real Browsers Are Worth the Cost
Sep 17, 2026 article
What Is HTTP in Performance Testing?
Sep 9, 2026 article
What is Throughput in Performance Testing?
Aug 16, 2026 article
What Are Concurrent Users in Performance Testing?
Jul 9, 2026 article
The JMeter Alternative for Teams Who’ve Outgrown Open Source But Can’t Stomach LoadRunner Prices
Jun 30, 2026 article
Best Load Testing Tools for 2026
Mar 7, 2026Show all 51 articles
- Gatling Studio Review 2026: What Gatling’s Creator Showed Me
- 6 Must Run Performance Tests for Black Friday
- What is Synthetic Monitoring? (2024 Guide)
- Unlock the Power of Continuous Performance Engineering
- Traffic Driven Testing For Realistic Kubernetes Testing
- What is Response Time Testing (Performance)
- Performance Testing Guide: Overview, Common Problems, and Tools
- Testing Nirvana Basics – Four Steps to Performance Nirvana
- The Complete Front-End Performance Testing Guide
- Resource Monitoring Basics: CPU and Memory Utilization in Performance Testing
- Six Top Trends for Performance in 2020 and Beyond
- Performance Testing in Troubled Times (Don’t be like Robinhood)
- 9 Load Testing Best Practices (Don’t Make These Mistakes)
- How to Reuse Functional Test for Performance Testing
- A Podcast Dedicated to Performance Testing and SRE
- Performance Testing with Sauce Labs
- Browser Performance Testing Using Element
- Why Testers Need Chaos Engineering
- <strong>Top IoT Testing Tools That Support MQTT</strong>
- Is Performance Testing and Site Reliability Needed?
- Visual Studio Load and Coded UI Dead! Now What?
- Best Application Performance Monitoring Tools (APM)
- k6 JavaScript Performance Testing
- Ramya Performance Calculator
- How QA Testers are Discovering Performance Testing
- Transcript: 5 Ways to Make Load Testing Work for You
- Harnessing the Power of JMeter
- Dynatrace AppMon Performance Monitoring (You’ll Be Jammin)
- PerfGuild Online Conference Registration Now Open
- 6 Performance Testing Mistakes Newbies Make (How to Avoid Slipping Up)
- Performance Testing in New Contexts [PODCAST]
- Continuous Performance Testing with BlazeMeter [PODCAST]
- Using WireShark to Attack Hard to Find Bugs [PODCAST]
- Getting Started with Performance Testing
- How to Start Performance Testing (The Black Art Revealed)
- How to run a Selenium Script in LoadRunner
- LoadRunner How to Run LR in Jenkins Continuous Integration
- LoadRunner 11.50 Licensing Change and Protocol Bundles
- HP LoadRunner 11.50 – How to Download LR 11.50
- LoadRunner web_service_set_security Action Mismatch error
- How to test a RESTful web service using HP’s LoadRunner
- Performance Basics Peak Load Testing
- Practical Packet Analysis Using Wireshark (Book Review)
- Become Your Company’s Performance Testing Yoda using Books
- LoadRunner Web Service Tutorial: Learning the Basics
Webinars (7)
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What Teams Test Too Late and How to Fix It Before It Costs You
Sep 10, 2026 webinar
Autonomous Testing in Action: Functional, Performance, and Mobile Testing from a Single Prompt.
Jul 23, 2026 webinar
Unleash Peak Performance Mastering Continuous Testing With Blazemeter
Oct 16, 2025 webinar
The Testing Death That Wasn't: Performance Testing in the Age of AI
Aug 21, 2025 webinar
Simulate Real-World Scenarios Like a Pro: Unlock Scalable and Insightful Load Testing with WebLOAD
Dec 12, 2024 webinar
Maximizing the Value of Performance Testing Throughout the SDLC: Combining Proven Approaches with AI
Nov 13, 2024Show all 7 webinars
Podcasts (216)
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AI Performance Testing: How to Scale Agentic AI with Kandasamy Selvaraj
Sep 8, 2026 podcast
Latest Selenium, TestMu, 45 Million for Code Validation and more TGNS193
Aug 17, 2026 podcast
Performance Testing with AI with Akash Thakur
Feb 17, 2026 podcast
Locust Performance Testing with AI and Observability with Lars Holmberg
Jan 13, 2026 podcast
Gatling Studio: Start Performance Testing in Minutes (No Expertise Required) with Stephane Landelle & Shaun Brown
Dec 7, 2025 podcast
Test Automation Crisis,AI Takes Over Performance Testing and more TGNS175
Nov 18, 2025Show all 216 podcasts
- Is Performance Testing Dead,LLM Testing, AI Reliability, TestMu and More TGNS166
- Agent2Agent, MCP Accessibility, Kubernetes Performance and More TGNS156
- Making Performance Testing Accessible for All with k6 Studio with Mark Meier and Tom Miseur
- Scaling ML Infrastructure Like a Pro with Elliott Clark
- Playwright MCP, k6 Studio, AI Hype and More TGNS152
- How AI Will Change Performance Testing Forever with Scott Moore
- Visual and API Testing with Playwright, JMeter Book and more TGNS149
- 2025 Testing Trends, Postman Gatling, AI Agents and More TGNS145
- How to Track Test Related Events (New Relic) with Rodrigo Martin
- AutomationGuild Voting, Performance in SDLC, Playwright Updates and More TGNS138
- Test Accessibility Event, Playwright Github Actions, Performance Testing LLM and More TGNS137
- WebLoad vs LoadRunner vs jMeter (Who Wins?) with Paul Kanaris
- Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability with Steve Flanders
- Observability Testing Using OpenTelemetry with Swapnil Kotwal
- Quality Assurance Myths, Code-less Performance, Karate and More TGNS128
- A Beginner Guide to Load Testing
- Demystifying Open-Telemetry with Michael Haberman
- Testing MedTech, Playwright Getting Started, Performance and More! TGNS123
- Playwright Vs JMeter, 3 Automation Questions You need To Know and More TGNS119
- DevOps Success: Merging Automation, Culture, and Performance Testing with Lee Barnes, Scott Moore and Paul Grizzaffi
- Automated Observability with David Wynn
- The New Age of Performance Testing
- Traffic-Driven Testing for Faster Execution with Nate Lee
- AI Prompt Engineering for Testers, Performance Pyramid and More TGNS109
- DevOps Performance Trends for 2024 with Scott Moore
- Stop Monitoring. Start Observing with Jeremy Burton
- Uncovering the Potential of AI in Testing, API, Specflow TGNS100
- Streamlining DevOps Focus with Ivan Merrill
- Beyond DevOps Borders: QSConf’s Journey from Uruguay to Chile with Federico Toledo
- Gremlin Certification, Reliability Testing and Chaos Engineering with Darrell Dunn
- Achieving Observability Goals with BugSnag with Eran Grabiner and Justin Collier
- Bug $500K Lost, Test SMS, AI Observability & Game Testing TGNS97
- Performance (And Load) Testing In Production with Leandro Melendez
- Gremlins, Bears, and Limas in Automation, Oh My! TGNS94
- Performance Testing Using Artillery with Hassy Veldstra
- Zero to Hero DevOps Performance Testing with Giannis Papadakis
- Breaking the Code: Game Test Automation, IoT, and QA Interview Improvements TGNS90
- Postgres Performance at Any Scale with Lukas Fittl
- Establishing SRE Foundations with Vlad Ukis
- AI in Testing, Magic Quadrant, Tylor Swift is Back and More TGNS88
- Codeless Automation Trends, Appium, PerfOps, and More TGNS87
- AI Assistance Test Tooling, Burp Suite GPT, Oracle Performance Testing and More TGNS86
- Unlimited AI-driven Test Automation, AI Testability and More! TGNS84
- New DevTest Community, DevOps Culture and More! TGNS81
- AI, Self-Healing Clouds & Performance Breakthroughs! 🔮TGNS80
- BDD in Action, Performance Golden Rule and More! TGNS79
- Is Performance Part of the DevOps Toolchain? (Why We Rebranded)
- What is Deviceless Mobile Testing? Selenium Logger and More! TGNS76
- Frontend Performance Testing Using Xk6 with Marie Cruz
- Top Automation Framework? New Test Data Tool and More! TGNS74
- Testing in Production with Eran Kinsbruner
- Performance Testing Big Data with Vishnu Nair and Vijay Gavane
- Understand the Behavior of Live Applications with Eran Kinsbruner
- Machine Learning in Performance with Gopal Brugalette
- Resilience Testing (Failures are your Friends) with Benjamin Wilms
- Simplify Performance Engineering with Intelligence with Josef Mayrhofer
- How ChatGPT Impacts Automation, Performance, and Security Testing TGNS69
- Performance Tour 2023 BBQ with Scott Moore
- Performance/SRE Awesomeness in Latin America
- TestProject is Dead, Taylor Swift Performance and More TGNS67
- Collaborative Notebooks for Debugging Your Infrastructure with Micha Hernandez Van Leuffen
- Hands-on Java, Black Friday, Hack the Cloud and More! TGNS66
- Anyone can Performance Test with Eric Proegler
- Building Performance Testing Pipelines with Viktoriia Kuznetcova
- Painless Mobile UI Automation, Burp Suite, Zoom Performance Testing TGNS 64
- Playwright Performance Testing with Katarzyna Kmiotek
- Automated K8s Load Testing with Matt LeRay
- Live Kubernetes Optimization in Production with Stefano Doni
- JMeter and How to Debug Test Scripts with Naeem Akram Malik
- 5 Top Factors For a Fast, Performant Database with Peter Corless
- Cypress TDD, Observability, Chaos, and More! TGN60
- Load testing with Artillery and Playwright with Katarzyna Kmiotek
- Testing for Good, Debug JMeter, Uber Hack and More TGNS59
- Unity Performance Profiling Ninjas with Ruben Torres Bonet
- Call for Speakers and Guild Courses with Joe Colantonio
- Develop JMeter Scripts Using Java with Roger Abelenda
- How to Measure to Improve Quality, Hacking Fun and More TGNS54
- OOP Automation Testing, jMeter JAVA DSL and more TGNS49
- Mainframe Automation Still a Thing?TGNS47
- Playwright Time Saving Tips, LoadRunner, HackEDU and more TGNS45
- Debunking 5 Stubborn Systems Performance Myths
- The Beauty of Variance with James Pulley
- Keptn to help with DevOps and SRE with Andreas Grabner
- Selenium Speakers, Slack Load Testing TGNS42
- Performance Testing in an Agile Environment with Michael Olechna
- Chaos Engineering Controlled Disruption with Mikolaj Pawlikowski
- ML for Testers Course, Python Performance Tool and more
- AI Test Data and Vulnerabilities TGNS35
- The New Performance Game with Cristiano Cunha
- Software Telemetry with Jamie Riedesel
- Journey Towards Continuous Performance Testing with Stephan Mousset
- SelectorHub, Resilience Testing and more TGNS30
- Rise of Continuous Non-Functional Testing with Rick Broker
- Creating a Performance Testing Framework with Stephen Townshend
- Humanoid Robot Testing TGNS24
- Performance Testing using Cypress.io with Marie Drake
- AI, Test Dashboards and Threat Modeling TGNS21
- How Does Pokemon GO Automate? TGNS20
- Kubernetes using AI to optimize Performance with Stefano Doni
- How to Automate Your Performance Test Results with Joey Hendricks
- Testing Red Flags TGNS18
- Splunk RUM Real User Monitoring with Shashwat Sehgal
- Headless Automation Not Worth it? TGNS15
- Building an SRE Process from the Ground Up with Evan Niedojadlo
- Is the Page Object Model Overrated? TGNS14
- The Evolution of Chaos Engineering with Benjamin Wilms
- Is it Observable? with Henrik Rexed
- Software Testing and Observability with Abby Bangser
- How to practice Chaos Engineering with Michael Sage
- The Story of Load Testing (A Hitchhiker’s Guide) with Leandro Melendez
- Performance Testing Infrastructure Building with Nikolay Avramov
- SRE 2021 Report with Leo Vasiliou
- Observability in Testing with Abby Bangser
- Performance Testing Audio and Video with Domeniks Bisofs and Nikolajs Varlamov
- Karate DSL: Performance from Zero to Hero with Artem Bondar
- The Basics of Performance Testing with Dave Westerveld
- Tuning Up with David Sweet
- E2E Testing News for Week of June 20
- Performance Testing iOS apps Using Appium and XCode Instruments with Sandeep Dinesh
- Performance Testing Foundations with Dave Westerveld
- API Load Testing Strategies with Harsh Upreti
- Absolute Performance with James Pulley
- Performance KPIs with Keshav Vasudevan
- Top 15 Open Source Load Testing Tools with Joe Colantonio
- Testing our Performance Test Tools with Nicole van der Hoeven
- PAC Hero Festival with Henrik Rexed
- Performance Testing for Massive Scale with Anvesh Malhotra
- Performance Testing Using Locust.io with Rahul Solanki
- Lessons From a Performance Journey
- Unit Level Performance using QuickPotato with Joey Hendricks
- The Economics of Performance Engineering with Lloyd Watts
- Why You Need to do API Performance Testing with Patrick Poulin
- Performance Engineering for Beginners with Scott Moore
- Automated Quality Gates in Performance Testing with Roman Ferstl
- Reliable & Fast Synthetic E2E Monitoring with Tim Nolet & Hannes Lenke
- Mobile Performance Testing with Sofía Palamarchuk
- Front-end Performance User Experience Testing
- Front-end Performance Testing Masterclass with Andy Davies
- Performance Testing More than Tooling with Harinder Seera
- Effortless Load Testing Using Open-Source Tools with Simon Aronsson
- Performance Testing of gRPC services with Vikas Kumar
- Performance Pretzel Testing with Andrei Alexandr Danilov
- API Performance Testing Trends with Phil Voulgaris & Keshav Vasudevan
- Robotic Performance Analytical Framework with Stijn Schepers
- Introduction to Performance Management with Arthur Luimes
- Taurus Performance Testing & Modernization with Matthew Andrus
- Performance Monitoring using RayGun with Innocent Bindura
- Drupal Performance Tuning with Brain Tully
- Performance Testing FOMO with Nicole van der Hoeven
- ScalaTest Performance Testing Microservices with Zubair Haque
- Modern Browser Performance Testing Master Class with Neotys PAC
- Performance Testing SAP with Helen Bally
- Performance Testing Fitness Functions with Lukasz Nowanski
- Load Testing Done Right using Gatling with Stephane Landelle
- Open Source Testing Survey with Kevin Dunne, Matthias Rapp, Ivan Vanderbyl
- Six Top Trends for Performance in 2020 and Beyond with Joe Colantonio
- Performance Testing in Troubled Times with PerfGuild
- Email Storms in a Load Test with Paul McLean
- More Than Just Noise Reduction with Guy Fighel
- Site Reliability Engineering: The Big Picture with Elton Stoneman
- Why Performance Testing is NOT Load Testing with Leandro Melendez
- UX Performance in Continuous Testing with Guy Arieli
- The Prestige User Performance Method with Ankur Jain
- 9 Load Testing Best Practices with Joe Colantonio
- Performance is a Team Sport with Mark Tomlinson
- Performance Strategies for the People with Corey Bailey
- Front End Developers View of Performance with Cristian Daniel Marquez Barrios
- Continuous Integration Performance Testing with Paola Rossaro
- Signal and System Testing with Paul McLean
- How to Avoid Newbie Performance Testing Mistakes with Rebecca Clinard
- APM in DevOps and SRE with Andreas Grabner
- AiOps in Performance with Jonathon Wright
- Performance Testing in 2020 with James Pulley
- Performance Testing APIs with Patrick Poulin
- Chaos Engineering and Site Reliability Testing with Tammy Bütow
- Modeling Test Data For Performance Testing with James Walker
- Black Friday Performance Testing Challenge
- Simplified Performance Engineering with Stephen Townshend
- Performance Testing Pipes and Balloon Animals with Scott Barber and Mark Tomlinson
- How to Inject Robustness Testing Into Your Projects Dawn Haynes
- Context-Driven Performance Testing with Alexander Podelko
- Performance Advisory Council (PAC) 2019 Recap with Henrik Rexed
- Performance Testing From User Perspective with Jacek Okrojek
- Real Browsers Performance Testing with Keshav Vasudevan
- The Future of Application Performance Monitoring with Scott Moore
- JMeter Tips and Tricks with Christina Thalayasingam
- Shift-Right in Performance Testing with Jonathan Wright
- Integrated Performance Assurance (IPA) with Leandro Melendez
- 00: Into to the New TestGuild Performance & Site Reliability Testing Podcast
- 254: Making Load Testing with Real Browsers a Reality with Tim Koopmans
- 246: Chaos Engineering with Tammy Bütow
- 245: Performance Testing in 2019 with PerfGuild
- 227: Fuel Your Performance Testing with Loadster with Andy Hawkes
- 211: Lowering Performance Testing Barriers Using k6 with Robin Gustafsson
- 209: API Functional Testing with Klaus Neuhold & Dave Karow
- 203: Performance Advisory Council with Henrik Rexed
- 192: Performance Testing in DevOps with Paola Rossaro
- 165: Top 12 PerfGuild Q&A Performance Tips
- 160: Online Performance Testing Conference with Joe Colantonio
- 156: Performance Testing Monitoring with Andreas Grabner
- 140: Reinventing Performance Testing with Alexander Podelko
- 132: Automation at Twitter & The Huffington Post with Anil Kadimisetty
- 117: How to Avoid Rookie Mistakes in Performance Testing with Rebecca Clinard
- 80: Eric Proegler: Performance Testing in New Contexts
- 75: Michael Sage: Continuous Performance Testing with BlazeMeter
- 48: Mark Tomlinson: A Bucket Full of Bottlenecks
- 39: Scott Moore: Getting Started with Performance Testing and LoadRunner
- 14 : Paul Bruce : Performance Testing using LoadUI
- 11: Joe Colantonio : How to run Selenium Scripts in LoadRunner
- 05: Joe Colantonio: The Top New Features in UFT, ALM and LoadRunner 12
Courses (2)
Talks (40)
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Abhinav & Nikita & Nagarjuna: AI-powered performance testing to ensure app reliability
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AI-powered performance testing to ensure app reliability (Abhinav & Nikita & Nagarjuna)
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Sravanthi Naga: Resilient by Design: AI-Driven Observability and Performance Testing in MCP Workflows
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Sravanthi Naga: Resilient by Design: AI-Driven Observability and Performance Testing in MCP Workflows
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Dimpy Adhikary: Optimizing Performance Testing with Smart Workload Modeling
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Evan Niedojadlo: Understanding Observability and deploying dashboards to show test results
Show all 40 talks
- Scott Moore: Advancing The DevOps Evolution With DevPerfOps
- Continuous Automated & Performance Testing In DevOps (Panel Discussion)
- DevOps VS QA: An Interactive Story Around Observability And Synthetic Testing (Giannis Papadakis & Dionysis Tsoumas)
- Playwright Superpowers - Load Testing & E2E Monitoring W/ Playwright (Hassy Veldstra)
- Shift Left Performance Testing (Dave Sorenson)
- The Load Testing Expedition: A Beginner's Quest For Practical Application (Karime Salomon)
- The Quest for High-Performing App Releases (Fernando Mattos)
- Ana Barragan: Tools all performance engineers must know in a DevOps world
- Andreas Grabner: Performance as a Self-Service based on SLIs/SLOs in 5 minutes with Keptn
- Andy Davies: Adding Front-End Performance to the Testing Lifecycle
- James Pulley: The Beauty of Variance
- Jonathon Wright: Shift Right - Digital Experience Analytics
- Keshav Vasudevan: KPIs - Painting a cohesive picture of web application performance
- Mohamed Rifad: Automation Scripts For Performance Testing
- Nicole van der Hoeven: Hybrid load testing: the best of testing using protocols and real browsers
- Paul McLean: Distortion - Why it can make music sound great, and how it’s relevant to making your load tests more realistic
- Saida Yurishi Reyes: Siege Becoming a Medieval QA
- Scott Moore: Effective Performance Engineering
- Simon Aronsson: A code-first approach to performance engineering
- Stephen Townshend: Chasing a Java Performance Monster
- Ana Medina: Chaos Engineering
- Christina Thalayasingam: Tips and Tricks Using JMeter
- Gopal Brugalette: Machine Learning Application in Performance Analysis
- Henrik Rexed: How to shift Left By Shifting Right
- Jacek Okrojek: Performance Testing From User Perspective
- James Pulley: Absolute Performance
- Keshav Vasudevan: SmartBear
- Leandro Melendez: IPA (Integrated Performance Assurance)
- Paul Bruce, Laura Stone, Marcus Merrell: Roundtable Ask Us Anything about Site Reliability Engineering
- Scott Barber, Mark Tomlinson, Alex Podelko: Roundtable Ask Us Anything About Performance Testing
- Scott Moore: IOT Performance Testing
- Tim Koopmans: Making load testing with real browsers a reality
- Viktoriia Kuznetcova: Building Performance Testing Pipelines for CI/CD
- Wilson Mar: How to Handle Performance Issues at Scale in the Cloud