Software Performance Testing: Beyond Record and Playback

Predictable software performance is crucial to the success of almost every enterprise system and, in some cases, to the success of the company itself. Before deploying systems into production, management is demanding comprehensive performance testing and reliable test results. This has created significant pressure on development managers and performance test engineers. Alim Sharif guides you through the basic steps for planning, creating, executing, and reporting performance tests. He explains how to actively involve stakeholders-application developers, database administrators, network engineers, IT infrastructure groups, and senior managers-to identify and resolve performance issues. Alim discusses how to maintain the balance between these stakeholder interests during each step and demonstrates how to effectively lead the performance test effort. Avoid the wars that can break out between stakeholders and developers when they discover performance issues at the eleventh hour. Learn how to identify performance problems in the application code, database schema, network topology, and hardware environment before it's too late.