A set of guidelines for testers and performers to excel in modern times.

1. Performance & Beyond
More than just load automations

2. Who am I?
Leandro AKA Señor Performo
DevRel Perf @k6_io
Blog (www.srperf.com)
Social NW’s (@srperf)
Host of PerfBytes Español.
Perf youtuber
Public speaking
Book Author

3. Thank you

4. Content
•Perf. What? Why?
•Old Perf vs Assurance
•Roles n tasks
•Tips

5. Perf what?

6. WARNING!!!
Performance Testing ≠ Load testing
Performance ≠ automations

7. Performance testing is…
PERFORMANCE
• Efficiency and speed of an action
TESTING
• Validate, verify, and measure
PERFORMANCE TESTING
• ANY mean to validate, verify and
measure efficiency

8. Performance testing is NOT…
Only AUTOMATING
• Also, instrument, observe, organics
Always LOAD SLAMMING
• Leave it for extraordinary times
After-thought
• Just before releasing to production

9. Performance tri-force
Time Impact
Scenario

10. But Why?
•Slowfrustrated
• users/employees
•Bad sales/productivity
•No work/sales

11. No perf
•Lost revenue
•Lost clients
•Angry users
•Remedy cost
Good perf
•Happy users
•Lots of sales
•Loyalty
•Lower cost

12. No perf
•Lost revenue
•Lost clients
•Angry users
•Remedy cost
Good perf
•Happy users
•Lots of sales
•Loyalty
•Lower cost

13. Old Perf

14. Modern?
Digital transformations
(So 2000s)
Prod release 3-6 months
Handovers & Silos

15. Modern!
Agile/DevOps/Continuous
Cloud SaaS Paas IaaS
Services, Microservices, and…
more! … Meta?

16. Tradition-old
Waterfall  Load tests at the end
Waterfall  Perf once in a while
Measure perf through automations
Production is untouchable

17. • Bye old
• Welcome changes
• Evolve Production
•Everything is different… What can we do?

18. Da future
Omnipresent performance
Continuous sprints
Don’t wait 4 handovers
MVP already happened No time waste

19. Roles&Tasks

20. Only one thing
Like original Pokémons
Were hundreds!
Script & execute!

21. •Multi talent!
• 2, 3 or more
•Share tasks
•Small teams

22. No more scripting!
•PDD Performance
driven development
•QA’s not to automate
•QA’s (and perfs) mentor

23. Perf champions
No longer just scripters
Guides team to perf test
Involves others in perf
Jumps teams

24. Performerer supreme
Sets guidelines
Best practices
Mentors champions
CPO

25. More Tips

26. Early Performer
Perf from day -1
(infra, software, processes, reqs)
Not before release & just automate…
In the beginning 3 AMIGOS! (PO, Dev, PerfTest)
State best practices initially and continuosly
Reqs in tasks, dev standards, base performance

27. Have sight
•Observability
everywhere & every time
•APMs, telemetry, instrumentation.
•Integrate metrics on processes

28. Automate
wisely
The right
amounts
In the right
places

30. A tool for each
•No more ONE TOOL
•Every ring does something
•A tool for each level & type

31. • Not forbidden
• Release techniques
• Let others load test
• Observe, control, tune

32. USE BOTH!
Synthetics
Automations
Organics
People

33. Automated load test…
… the LAST step
Rarely!
SERIOUSLY!
Everything else
before that

34. That’s all folks
Time’s out.
Make it happen!

35. Thank You !
@SrPerf

36. Q & A