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January 2, 2009
by j pimmel
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Unit performance testing tactics

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 … Continue reading

January 1, 2009
by j pimmel
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The curse of performance test automation?

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 … Continue reading

December 29, 2008
by j pimmel
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My experiences in app performance test automation

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 … Continue reading