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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 [...]

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 [...]