The document is a presentation by Scott Barber on performance testing throughout the application life-cycle, emphasizing the importance of proactive engagement and personal experience over best practices. It outlines the key elements of performance testing, including speed, scalability, and stability, and distinguishes between performance and load testing. Barber advocates for collaborative learning and adaptation of strategies based on individual project contexts to enhance software performance.

1. Performance Testing:
Throughout the Application Life-Cycle
Created for:
By:
Scott Barber
Chief Technologist
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
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2. Performance Testing:
Throughout the Application Life-Cycle
Scott Barber
Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
sbarber@perftestplus.com
www.perftestplus.com
@sbarber
Co-Founder: Workshop On Performance and Reliability
www.performance-workshop.org
Author: Co-Author: Contributing Author:
Books: www.perftestplus.com/pubs About me: about.me/scott.barber
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3. Notes
This keynote is a sub-set of 7 days of instruction
(about the same as a 1 semester university course)
I do not believe in “Best Practices” (I believe in
problem solving via experience, experiment & education)
Everything in this keynote is based on personal
experience in *some* context (but not yours)
Adapt concepts to your situation/context
Do network with others who are here (I bet they have
great ideas too)
Follow–up with me (what works for you… or doesn’t)
I *like* questions!
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5. What is Performance?
System or application characteristics related to:
Speed:
- responsiveness
- user experience
Scalability:
- capacity
- load
- volume
Stability
- consistency
- reliability
- stress
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6. What is Performance Testing?
What mom tells people:
I help people make websites go fast.
What I tell people:
I help and/or teach individuals and organizations to
optimize software systems by balancing:
• Cost
• Time to market
• Capacity
while remaining focused on the quality of service
to system users.
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7. Performance vs. Load Testing?
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9. Who is Responsible?

10. Where Does it Fit?

12. To Prevent Poor Performance…
… don’t just react when it happens.

13. An Ounce of Prevention…

15. The Performance Lifecycle is:
Conception to Headstone
Not
Cradle to Grave

17. … Do you like Swim Lanes?

18. …Or maybe Circles?

19. …Or Annotated Pie Charts?
• Current Capacity • Single User
• Projections Responsiveness
• Resource Management
• Scalability Plan
Architects • Component-Level
• Reliability DevOps & Concurrency
Analysts &
Architects
Scrum
Prod Dev
Stage Test
Load Team Scrum &
• Prepare for Prod
& DevOps Load Team
• Tune/Optimize • Multi-User
• Predict Responsiveness
• Early Warning • Resource Trending
Identification • Limit Identification

20. …Relativistic Comparisons?

21. …How about Colors?

25. Application Delivery Activities

33. With:
A “Test-Driven” Application
Performance Management Model

35. The four T’s Units
Proactive
Micro & Macro
stand for… Stories
Tiers
Establish Goals Resources
Update Targets Goals
Dev & Prod
Times Assess
Resources Compare
Sizes Investigate
Frequencies Accept
Dashboard! Answer

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54. Load Testing Principles
Project context is central to successful testing.
Business, project, system, & user success criteria.
Identify system usage, and key metrics; plan and design tests.
Install and prepare environment, tools, & resource monitors.
Script the tests as designed.
Run and monitor tests. Validate tests, test data, and results.
Analyze the data individually and as a cross-functional team.
Consolidate and share results, customized by audience.
"Lather, rinse, repeat" as necessary.
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58. Unit-Level Testing Tools
(‘cause folks always ask)
FireBenchmarks; Performance testing addin for NUnit
JUnitPerf; a collection of JUnit test decorators for performance
Firefox Performance Tester's Pack
HTTPerf

60. Questions?

61. Preventing Poor Performance with
a little work…
every day…
from every one.

62. Contact Info
Scott Barber
Chief Technologist
PerfTestPlus, Inc
E-mail: Web Site:
sbarber@perftestplus.com www.PerfTestPlus.com
Blog: Twitter:
scott-barber.blogspot.com @sbarber
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63. Review & Questions
Did we learn anything?
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