New Performance Testing Guidance Avaliable

I am involved in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance project. We have reached a critical mass with regards to our "mostly final" content and have made that content publicly available at the following URL http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTesting

The team includes some of the original members from Improving .NET Application Performance as well as some new faces. We're tackling various flavors of performance testing (stress, load, capacity) as well as how to bake performance testing into your life cycle. We're also tackling how to use VS.NET 2005 for effective performance testing.

We're building our performance testing BOG (Body of Guidance) in three parts:

1. Methodologies
2. Techniques
3. VS.NET 2005 Performance Testing Guidance

This factoring let's us create both a focused set of timeless performance testing practices, as well as a set of very specific practices for getting the most out of the tool. You can pick the modules you need for your tasks at hand.

I'm pretty excited about this project and think there is a lot of great information being consolidated and usefully presented. I encourage you to check it out. I'd also like to encourage you to comment, if you are so moved, here, at the site or privately to me.

I hope you find the content valuable!

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Scott Barber
President & Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Executive Director, Association for Software Testing
www.perftestplus.com
www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org
sbarber@perftestplus.com

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