There has always been something about performance testing that has bugged me over the years. It’s the standard approach of ramping up the amount of load on each test execution cycle.
The typical order of executions for a performance test is:
- Smoke Test
- 25% Load
- 50% Load
- 75% Load
- 100% Load
The flaw, as I see it, lies in the order of execution. I think we an improve on this concept by aiming to ramp down instead. Continue Reading…
