Core Performance Testing Principles
Overview
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| For a successful performance testing project, the approach and the testing must be focused on the context of the project. | |
| Identify the user, business and project success criteria related to the performance of the system. These frequently take the form of requirements, goals, objectives, targets and constraints. | |
| Plan and Design Tests. Identify key scenarios, simulated user variances, and test data and metrics to be collected. | |
| Install and prepare the test environment, tools, and resources necessary to execute tests as features and components become available. Instrument for resource monitoring as necessary. | |
| Using your tool of choice, script the performance tests in accordance with the test design. | |
| Run and monitor your tests. Validate the tests, test data, and results collection. Execute validated tests for analysis while monitoring the test and the test environment. | |
| Analyze the data individually and as a cross-functional team. Use trends and ensure your conclusions are supported statistically. | |
| Consolidate and share results data. Customize your reports to your audience, use well designed graphics. Short narrative summaries with intuitive charts and graphs are almost always a hit. | |
| Reprioritize remaining tests and re-execute as needed. Or, as the shampoo commercial used to say "Lather, rinse, repeat" as necessary. | |
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by: J.D. Meier, Scott Barber, Carlos Farre, Prashant Bansode, and Dennis Rea