Table of contents for Before You Walk in The Door to Performance Test
- Before You Walk in The Door to Performance Test (Knowing the Costs: Open-Source aka “Free” vs. Commercial): Part Seven of an Ongoing Series by Howard Clark
- Before You Walk in The Door to Performance Test (Knowing the Costs): Part Six of an Ongoing Series by Howard Clark
- Before You Walk in The Door to Performance Test (Developing a Performance Checklist): Part Five of an Ongoing Series by Howard Clark
- Before You Walk in The Door to Performance Test (Assessing Your Teammate’s and/or Client’s Ability to Deliver): Part Four of an Ongoing Series by Howard Clark
- Before You Walk in The Door to Performance Test (Evaluating Test Infrastructure): Part Three of an Ongoing Series by Howard Clark
- Before You Walk in The Door to Performance Test(Defining Performance Requirements): Part Two of an Ongoing Series by Howard Clark
- Before You Walk in The Door to Performance Test: Part One of an Ongoing Series by Howard Clark
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There are a lot of tasks that need to be executed before you press “Go”, here is a sample checklist to help you begin. It utilizes my AMEA framework, where the work breakdown is separated into four groups of Assessment, Modeling, Execution, and Analysis.
It’s important to get everyone who has an action item to sign off on the checklist and develop SLAs around when and how they will meet the requirements to begin testing. This is how you begin to normalize your test efforts between test runs. Be an advocate for automation and taking on as many of the these tasks as possible to reduce the dependencies. Performance testing should not be done ad-hoc without structure; the “a man is not an island” catch-phrase will serve you well in helping keep your sanity. It forces you to engage others and in the process you are bound to gain insight into other aspects of the infrastructure you may or may not have been aware of.
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