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Lessons Learned in Performance, Stress, and Volume Testing

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Lessons Learned in Performance, Stress, and Volume Testing

Member Submitted Article by Jose Fajardo | Comments: (0) | Fri, 05/16/2003 - 18:20
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In this article, the author shares some of his insights from previous testing engagements. He hopes to help testing professionals make informed decisions before they initiate a performance test for capacity planning, measuring an application's response times, identifying degradation points, breaking points, and bottlenecks. Flawed testing techniques are also pointed out as lessons learned from several projects and a mitigation path for overcoming these flawed testing techniques is also explained.

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About The Author: Jose Fajardo

Jose Fajardo (PMP, M.S., and SAP certified) has worked as a test manager for various companies utilizing automated testing tools. He has written and published numerous articles on testing SAP and authored the book titled Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step by Step Guide. Throughout his career Jose has helped to create testing standards and test plans, mentor junior programmers, audit testing results, implement automated testing strategies, and managed test teams. Jose can be contacted at josefajardo@hotmail.com.

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