Early Performance Testing
Development and deployment contexts have changed considerably over the last few years. The discipline of performance testing has had difficulty keeping up with modern testing principles and software development and deployment processes.
Most people still see performance testing as a single experiment, run against a completely assembled, code-frozen, production-resourced system, with the “accuracy” of simulation and environment considered critical to the value of the data the test provides. But what can we do to provide actionable and timely information about performance and reliability when the software is not complete, when the system is not yet assembled, or when the software will be deployed in more than one environment? How can you effectively performance test in continuous integration to continually collect feedback on the project’s performance and scalability characteristics?
• Performance Test Strategies for Agile Performance Feedback
• Identifying Test Case
• Examining Realism in Performance Tests
Eric Proegler has worked in testing for 17 years, and specialized in performance and reliability testing for 13. He is the CloudTest Product Manager for SOASTA in Mountain View, California.
Eric is an Executive Board Member and the Treasurer for the Association for Software Testing, and an organizer for WOPR, the Workshop on Performance and Reliability, and a Community Advisory Board member for STPCon. He’s presented and facilitated at Agile2015, CAST, WOPR, PNSQC, STPCon, and STiFS.
In his free time, Eric spends time with family, enjoys a SF Book Club, sees a lot of stand-up comedy, seeks out street food from all over, collects growlers, plays video games, and follows professional basketball.