Now on MSDN: patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications

You can now find our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications on MSDN in HTML. It's the same guidance we hosted on CodePlex. CodePlex was our channel for agile release of the guidance. Once we baked the guidance, we ported it to MSDN. For some customers, MSDN is a trusted source, so being on MSDN is important. Additionally, MSDN provides some additional hooks and channels.

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patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications now available!!

Today we have released the final version of our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications. This guide provides an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing. Whether you're new to performance testing or looking for ways to improve your current performance-testing approach, you will gain insights that you can tailor to your specific scenarios. The main purpose of the guide is to be a relatively stable backdrop to capture, consolidate and share a methodology for performance testing. Even though the topics addressed apply to other types of applications, we focused on explaining from a Web application perspective to maintain consistency and to be relevant to the majority of our anticipated readers.

Purpose of the guide

• Consolidate real-world lessons learned around performance testing.
• Present a roadmap for end-to-end performance testing.
• Narrow the gap between state of the art and state of the practice.

Key Learnings from the Guide

• The core activities of performance testing.
• Values and benefits associated with each type of performance testing.
• How to map performance testing to agile
• How to map performance testing to CMMI
• How to identify and capture performance requirements and testing objectives based on the perspectives of system users, business owners of the system, and the project team, in addition to compliance expectations and technological considerations.
• How to apply principles of effective reporting to performance test data.
• How to construct realistic workload models for Web applications based on expectations, documentation, observation, log files, and other data available prior to the release of the application to production.

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Please provide feedback on the guide, so we can improve on any issues missed.

~Later

Performance Testing Guidance

Currently I am working on Performance Testing Guidance Project. Last week we did a major sweep through our existing performance testing guidance modules. We updated the existing modules with some key fixes and incorporated feedback from internal and external reviewers. You can go through the Completed Modules List and see all the available performance testing modules.

This week we have added following new How to modules.

How To : Consolidate Various Types of Performance Requirements and Testing Objectives

How To : Coordinate Performance Testing with an Iteration-Based Process

How To : Evaluate Systems to Improve Performance Testing Effectiveness

How To : Model Application Usage without Empirical Data

How To : Quantify End-User Response Time Goals

How To : Use Data Binding in Load Tests in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System