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True Performance: Moving Beyond Basic Load Testing
Basic load testing is valuable, but it's important to move past simplistic efforts. Here are some ways to gain more accurate metrics from your load tests.
Performance Testing Considerations in a Public Cloud Environment
Testing an application's performance in the cloud begins with understanding the infrastructure of your public cloud environment. Learn which elements to watch for and how to optimize your cloud-based performance testing environment.
Load Test Your Website Before Your Customers Do
When you release a website or web application, it’s going to face a lot of very public load testing. If it performs poorly, there’s a good chance that you’re going to lose a lot of customers. Colin Mason offers some tips for load testing in order to ensure a better customer experience.
Put a Load on It
Sustained system load may expose critical bugs that could really hurt business stakeholders. Yet, it’s standard practice in our industry to run functional testing and load testing of business systems as completely separate activities. Test manager and consultant Fiona Charles argues for a more holistic approach to testing that better simulates the real use that business systems will be subject to.

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The Top 13 Mistakes In Load Testing Applications

This is a no-holds-barred discussion of common load testing errors and consequences. Load testing can and should be done long before a system has a stable or complete user interface. One reason that people often schedule load testing as a final step in a test or development plan is the confusion linking load testing with functional testing.

Trade Secrets from a Web Testing Expert
If you oversee a mission-critical Web site, you want to be able to predict how many users you can handle within acceptable response times. Here are three fundamental load testing concepts you can't do without.
Avoiding Scalability Shock

Web application scalability tops the list of challenges for those designing and developing e-commerce sites. Here are five steps to managing the performance of e-business applications: architecture validation, performance benchmarking, performance regression testing, performance tuning and acceptance, and continuous performance monitoring.

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