Performance Testing: Planning for a Successful Test
In today’s fast paced, ever changing world of software and technology, software performance testing is becoming essential to successful product implementation. To be successful, we must understand several fundamental factors about performance testing. Join Dale Perry as he examines these activities and identifies key issues, how they determine our level of success at implementing the necessary testing, and potential pitfalls. He addresses the tester’s role in performance testing, the performance test planning process, and integrating performance testing into the development process. Within the process, Dale discusses performance goals and objectives, the environment and architecture issues, operational profiles (load definitions) and their importance to performance testing, the various types of performance tests, and defining appropriate measurements to ensure success.
Dale Perry has over forty years of experience in information technology as a programmer/analyst, database administrator, project manager, development manager, tester, and test manager. Dale’s project experience includes large-system development and conversions, distributed systems, and both web-based and client/server applications. A professional instructor for more than twenty-six years, he has presented at numerous industry conferences on development and testing. With TechWell for twenty years, Dale has specialized in training and consulting on test design and planning, inspections and reviews, and other testing and quality-related topics.