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ItsASine (Kayla)

Oh man, awesome response! Lots of things I can look into the next time I get a chance.

Though I just found out I need to stopwatch every call in our app because the CEO complained during a demo that it was slow, so... yeah... performance? :P But manual testing is both my least favorite thing and a huge timesink, so I won't have time for a while.

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rhymes

But manual testing is both my least favorite thing and a huge timesink, so I won't have time for a while.

That's why you need to start automating this stuff :)

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ItsASine (Kayla)

The timeline for when this needs to be done is Tuesday, apparently, to prioritize performance fixes. And they already barely approve of me reading my JMeter book.

And even though it literally has "testing" in the name, the project manager is making the devs do the automated testing of it. Maybe so the "real" engineers will do it right? Whatever. But when shit breaks, I suddenly need to drop all the real work and manually click things for a week.

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rhymes

What's the easiest thing to do that can give you some value? Going through the whole JMeter book is going to take time.

What about employing a third party load testing tool or a tool like wrk to have a baseline of a few endpoints?

Maybe you can also use Cypress to record those use cases you usually do manually...