The Performance Load Test Process

Performance load testing is vital to verifying that business outcomes can be achieved for online services. This article discusses a repeatable best practice approach to achieving this.

Following the performance load test process improves the accuracy and confidence of results together with objectivity of lessons that can be learned when conducting performance load testing on your websites and applications. 

Performance load testing (load testing) is an important and integral component of the development and maintenance of a website or web application (website). 

Its objective is to ensure that the key performance-based business criteria of the website and its environment platform can be achieved and benchmarks for futur.....

Exposing the vagaries of ORM in load testing

Taking a look at database issues and why an ORM-accessed RDBMS may cause web performance issues

After a long journey in design, development and functional testing, rarely is a new website or application completed without a performance load test as one of its final milestones. Project, and sometimes regulatory, sign-off is dependent on certain criteria being met so there is often much riding on the successful outcome of the load test. Because of this there can be considerable trepidation in the team as they start the load testing process as load testing is designed to exercise both the software and hardware configurations to their limits.

Although the .....

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.....