Performance Testing Guide Beta 1 is Available
Submitted by sbarber on Fri, 25/05/2007 - 18:13.
agile | context-driven testing | general software testing | non-functional testing | other online resources | performance testing
- Some of you have been wondering what I've been working on recently... well, here's the answer. I've been working with a crack MS team to create tool, process, vendor, religion, diet and gender agnostic guidance around the most common activities and challenges related to performance testing web applications in commercially driven environments. We've finally achieved a version that we believe is "good/done enough" to let all you testers out there shred it and provide your feedback. Beta 1 means what you think it does. There are known issues, unknown issues, and all that other stuff. That said, the other members of the team and I all, personally and collectively, stand behind the concepts in the guide (though in some places we are still trying to figure out the best way to express those concepts).
- The bottom line is this. If you do, might do, have ever done, or might be interested in Performance Testing, we'd love to have your thoughts/feedback. We're working on short revision cycles, so don't wait a month to send feedback... it might be too late by then! The "official" announcement is below:
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- Today we released our Beta 1 of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Guide. It shows you an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing, based on lessons learned from applied use in customer scenarios. Whether you're new to performance testing or looking for ways to improve your current approach, you'll find insights you can use.
- Contents at a Glance
- Part 1, Introduction to Performance Testing
- Part II, Exemplar Performance Testing Approaches
- Part III, Identify the Test Environment
- Part IV, Identify Performance Acceptance Criteria
- Part V, Plan and Design Tests
- Part VI, Execute Tests
- Part VII, Analyze Results and Report
- Part VIII, Performance Testing Techniques
- Chapters
- Introduction
- Fundamentals of Web Application Performance Testing
- Types of Performance Testing
- Risks Performance Testing Addresses
- Core Activities
- Managing an Agile Performance Test Cycle
- Coordinate Performance Testing with an Iteration-Based Process
- Managing the Performance Testing Cycle in a CMMI Environment
- Evaluating Systems to Improve Performance Testing
- Performance Testing Objectives
- Quantifying End User Response Time Goals
- Consolidate Various Types of Performance Acceptance Criteria
- Modeling Application Usage
- Modeling User Variances
- Test Execution
- Performance Testing Math
- Reporting Fundamentals
- Load Testing Web Applications
- Stress Testing Web Applications
- About Our Team
- J.D. Meier - J.D. is a master at bringing teams of technical experts together and getting them to generate high-quality, relevant, applicable content for the entire software world to share. Some examples include; Improving .NET Application Performance, Improving Web Application Security, and Building Secure ASP.NET Apps.
- Carlos Farre - Carlos is our performance and security specialist in patterns & practices. He helps make sure our patterns & practices code follows our performance and security guidance.
- Prashant Bansode - When Prashant is on a project, you can be sure he's ripping through the technical accuracy and improving the customer focus. This is the same Prashant from Guidance Explorer, Security Guidance, and VSTS Guidance.
- Scott Barber http://www.perftestplus.com/scott_blog.php - Scott brings his many years of performance testing experience to the table. If you do performance testing for a living, you probably know his name, his articles and the trails he's blazed. Scott’s worked with us previously on Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability.
- Dennis Rea - Dennis brings his years of editorial experience to the table. He worked with us previously on our Security Guidance.