02 Jan, 2009
Posted by: j pimmel In: agile| grails| linux| performance testing| technical
In my previous article on performance testing, I suggested that incremental and iterative development of performance unit tests was an essential part of your overall performance testing strategy. However, performance testing the parts of a system is vastly different from testing the whole and will require some careful thinking to avoid too much focus on [...]
01 Jan, 2009
Posted by: j pimmel In: agile| performance testing
In our last three projects we automated our performance testing extensively. This involved significant effort, which paid off for the 2 projects already delivered: meeting performance expectations owed a great deal to our performance improvements.
Interestingly after the bulk of those improvements were delivered and the product made live, the performance automation testing aspects fell slowly into [...]
29 Dec, 2008
Posted by: j pimmel In: agile| grails| java| performance testing
I’ve done a lot of performance analysis and improvement in my time although it’s only in my last 3 projects that we started automating it.
In all cases a developer check-in would trigger the execution of a battery of stress/concurrency tests against a fully integrated as-live environment. Soak tests were scheduled nightly or over weekends against [...]
