Agile Performance Testing

While it is definitely better to build-in performance during the design stage and continue performance-related activities through the whole software lifecycle, quite often performance testing happens just before going live with very short timeframe allocated for it. Still approaching performance testing formally, with rigid, step-by-step approach and narrow specialization often leads to missing performance problems altogether or to prolonged agony of performance troubleshooting. With small extra efforts, making the process more agile, efficiency of performance testing increases significantly – and these extra efforts usually pay off multi-fold even before the end of performance testing.