A Cloudy Day in Performance Load Testing

Deploying websites on Cloud infrastructure may be a panacea for many but problems may still exists.

Nowadays it is rare for a website or web application to go live without passing pre-determined performance criteria that has been previously defined as necessary by the business.  This normally comes down to number of webpages or transactions per second all loaded within a specific download speed. Testing to prove the website against this type of performance criteria is necessary to ensure the end-user experience is as intended.

However as more websites move onto cloud infrastructures the benefits of cloud, such as the dynamic addition of infrastructure thr.....