Testing Types (k6 Office Hours #88)

In this k6 Office Hours episode, Developer Advocates Leandro Melendez and Paul Balogh are joined for the first time by the Technical Content Manager Pepe Cano, to discuss the different load testing types, reviewing what are them, why do we need them, and multiple polemics around them.
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction and announcements
05:37 Load Test Types
08:42 Smoke Test
16:16 Average Load
22:54 Stress Test
26:35 Soak Test
33:53 Spike Test
42:09 Breakpoint Test
50:43 How to in k6
51:38 No Roller Coaster
55:04 Open VS Closed
58:09 Interesting Details
59:59 Pepe will be back
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Nicole's KubeCon talk:    • Emergent load testing (KubeCon EU 202...  
Load test types guide: https://k6.io/docs/test-types/load-te...
GrafanaCON 2023: https://grafana.com/about/events/graf...
Leandro's StarEast streams:    • StarEast 2023  
k-SIX News May Roundup:    • K-SIX News - May 2023 Roundup  

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Contact Paul:
Twitter:   / javaducky  
Site: https://javaducky.com/

Contact Leandro:
Twitter:   / srperf  
Site: https://www.srperf.com/

Contact Pepe:
  / ppcano  

Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/k6