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Integrate JMeter in Grafana Dashboard by using InfluxDB as a backend

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What is Grafana ? Grafana  is an open source metric analytics & visualization suite. It is most commonly used for visualizing time series data for infrastructure and application analytics but many use it in other domains including industrial sensors, home automation, weather, and process control. Sample dashboard: Download Grafana from the link(https://grafana.com/grafana/download) unzip  grafana-4.5.2.windows-x64.zip in your machine and execute the server file in the location grafana-4.5.2.windows-x64\grafana-4.5.2\bin\grafana-server.exe Once executed verify the Grafana by http://localhost:3000 in the browser. Grafana default username is admin and password is an admin. We need influxDB to store the JMeter test result. What is InfluxDB ? InfluxDB  is an open-source* (1.1.0) time series database developed by InfluxData. It is written in Go and optimized for fast, high-availability storage and retrieval of time series d...

Usability Testing

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When I started to work on my first project (fortunately I got an opportunity to work in a mobile application project) after two months of training, I thought that I was doing well and travelling in the right path. During one of the “QA discussion” sessions, my manager asked me to take a presentation regarding the training given to me and my first project experience. She wanted to understand my perspective of the training and project experience. I spent lots of effort on creating a presentation. I took the presentation with the title  “Starting a career as testing professional” . Generally in our meetings we used to have technical presentations, however, with just 3 months of experience in the field of testing, I did not have much to contribute technically (also the fear on what to present in front of experienced testers). Hence, I proceeded to share my 3 months of experience, based on my self-analysis, I compared myself with the developers and how my QA team involved in my care...
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A story about a fresher who starting his career as a software testing professional in a small  organization The first day he had started to office with a question     Second day with lot of questions for a single  concept       The third day he feels alone when comparing  himself with his friends, who were placed as a developer in various  organization           While googling about the testing he got an answer in “yahoo answer” that “Testing is just a typing work”, yeah at that time he had a training to write test cases. He feels sad and weak inside      When his discussing with his friends about testing. They used to ask “Are you in Testing”. He suddenly replies yeah in the XXX  organization , the  organization  is quickly developing one,  organization  has a...