When is the Best Time to Start Software Performance Testing?
When taking into account the performance of existing systems or ones built from scratch, teams have to determine at what point in the development process they are going to benefit most from running performance tests. I’ve spoken about this topic at a couple of conferences, including the CMG imPACt Conference in La Jolla alongside Sofía Palamarchuk and I thought, “Why not summarize the talk in a post?”. So, the purpose of this post is to answer the question: Should we start performance testing at the beginning, alongside development (taking the agile approach) or at the end (the waterfall approach)? To begin with, a Quick Summary of what Functionality testing implies: A monitor performance is characterized by the quantity of valuable work accomplished by a laptop system compared to the full time spent and tools utilized. Remember, functionality will not just refer to speed. By way of instance, a system that is truly quickly that works by using 100 percent of the CPU ar