Why Performance Testing is Necessary

Performance matters… Here’s why Ever have those days when too many people want something from you at the same time? When your inbox is flooded by so many…

Can you run performance tests in production? Imagine that we have to run a test that we’ve already designed with a good load scenario, test cases, test data,…

Software Performance Testing Fallacies Continued Continuing with the previous post about software performance testing fallacies, we will take another look at common ways in which many of us…

Don’t fall for these common performance testing fallacies It’s always interesting to find out the many ways in which we can be wrong. Here we want to point out the…

In load tests we simulate the workload that an application will have in production, counting the concurrent users accessing the application, the tests cases that will be executed,…

What to look for when analyzing system performance “80 percent of datacenter managers said their datacenter downtime costs exceed $50,000 per hour.” –USA Today 2014 survey of 200…

Executing performance tests more effectively and efficiently A thought by Scott Barber with which I fully agree reflects part of what I want to discuss here: “Only performance testing…

Good performance engineers need to know what’s “under the hood” Recently, I was involved in a debate about whether it’s necessary for performance testers to understand the architecture of…

Distinguishing the different types of performance tests Among the various types of performance tests usually mentioned in the testing environment, there are some standard names that sound familiar…