Blog Listing: Testing

Today is a big day for the Akamai Sandbox team, and even bigger, we think, for Akamai customers. This group of seven dedicated Akamai team members spent the last year speaking with our DevOps-savvy customers and listening to different pain points they have. After five months in beta, we’re happy to announce that we’re opening up Akamai Sandbox with general...

When you’re a developer, the more similar your test environment is to the real production environment, the better. However, with the complexities around multiple environments, third-party dependencies, and other challenges, it’s not easy to fully achieve this ideal. But every step toward that ideal improves software quality and reduces cycle times. Starting now, you can take another step in that...

The genesis of Akamai Sandbox goes back two years, when we discovered that many Akamai customers were making changes to their configs more frequently than we expected. When we started talking to these customers, we discovered three main patterns: Multiple teams: An Akamai config is usually managed by multiple teams, where each team owns a part of the logic within...

Akamai CloudTest gives you optimized testing capabilities for web and mobile apps, APIs, databases, and web services. Jenkins is one of the industry’s most popular open-source automation servers. In certain scenarios, you can combine the two of them for a superior automated testing solution. First, let’s outline one of these scenarios. Let’s say you have a CloudTest Test Composition* that...

We recently improved our Edge Side Include (ESI) debugger UI and released a new API so developers can run a script to check whether their ESI code is running successfully at the edge.

You can locally test the effect of blocking or deferring third-party scripts and take action based on your results.

Akamai Test Center, a unique new testing tool that can help increase your confidence in the safety of configuration updates on your web properties, is now available.

In the ever-changing world of web performance analytics and measurements, this is one of the most common questions we hear: “How is mPulse different from Google Analytics?”

Most people in the performance engineering field agree that our skillset is derived from an intersection of disciplines that include testing, optimization, and systems engineering. Because of the interdisciplinary requirements, these skills can be difficult to accumulate organically, but it's possible!

If you’re ever offered a chance to throw a million or so beacons' worth of user data into a Google-developed machine-learning system, I highly recommend you say yes. That’s what we did when Google approached us a year ago about partnering with them on a pioneering research project. The results have been eye-opening. In this post, I’ll walk through a...