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The Daily Crash: a Reflection on Continuous Performance Testing

Authors:
Gururaj Maddodi
Slinger Jansen
Jan Pieter Guelen
Rolf de Jong

Keywords: Workload Generation; Performance Testing; Software Architecture

Abstract:
Software architects base their design tasks on experience mostly, when developing new architectures. The requirements that are placed on these architectures, such as high-availability and minimum performance requirements, are becoming more demanding continuously. In this paper, we reflect on a method for continuous performance testing, to provide architects with feedback on their design/implementation and prevent problems before they affect the users or other systems. If architects employ the method, they are no longer flying blind, and can continuously evaluate and improve their application. We illustrate the use of the method at a large software company and report on the outcomes of using continuous performance testing in the development of their upcoming enterprise resource planning application release that is going to be used by over a million users.

Pages: 100 to 107

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: August 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-498-5

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016