Identification of Performance Objectives / Goals
Identification of performance objectives / goals It is found that most of the time, stakeholders are not aware or clear on what they want after the performance run. After performance run, every performance test engineer prepare the report containing many graphs, analysis and what not and share it to stakeholder. But stakeholder is confused or overwhelmed by viewing the big report. The main reason is he or she is not sure what answer they were expecting in the report and it becomes very difficult for performance tester to explain or walkthrough the report. Therefore, it is very important that before we conduct performance run(s), we set the expectation in the beginning that what question(s) will be answered after the run. Below are some of the questions, I ask before conducting a performance run and prepare test strategy and report accordingly. Client Side Goals Do you want to know if the application is able to support X number of concurrent users load? How yours most imp