Here’s a great simple to follow book on performance testing we think you might want to add to your QA library.

The Art of Application Performance Testing provides a step-by-step approach to testing mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before they’re deployed. With it, you’ll learn the complete life cycle of the testing process, along with best practices to help you plan, gain approval for, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your applications.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Set realistic performance testing goals
• Implement an effective application performance testing strategy
• Interpret performance test results
• Cope with different application technologies and architectures
• Use automated performance testing tools
• Test traditional local applications, web-based applications, and web services (SOAs)
• Recognize and resolves issues that are often overlooked in performance tests

This book is also available on Amazon.com here.

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