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Performance Testing: A Team Sport Putting together a good performance test team is essential to success. Many of the issues related to performance can be identified early through static methods, or performance engineering. If the key technical players are continuously involved in the testing process, conflicts can be avoided later. |
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When You Provide Good Service, Performance Metrics Are Your Friend Not all production support organizations have (or want) formal agreements describing the level of service they will provide to their customers. But if your organization generally provides good service, SLAs and the metrics they encourage can be excellent communication tools for your stakeholders. |
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Making a List, Checking It Twice: A Testing Strategy for the Holidays The holiday season means consumers will be doing a lot of shopping online. This poses immense challenges for the testers who have to ensure that all business channels, including mobile, offer a smooth, high-performance experience. This story gives some core components of a holiday testing strategy. |
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Successful Performance Testing Begins at Requirements Discovering performance issues in early builds allows more time to correct the design. By including critical performance-related features and elements earlier, we can take advantage of the incremental nature of the development process to avoid creating engineering in potential performance issues. |
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From Jeff Bezos—A Valuable Lesson on Competition Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently addressed a group of children at an elementary school. There was was one particularly interesting sound bite: "Who succeeds at Amazon? Explorers and pioneers. Who fails? Those who focus on killing our competitors." Here's why you shouldn't obsess over competition. |
