1. Performance Testing
“ Somebody that I used to know
- Gotye
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2. 10,000 hour rule
“The key to success in any field
is, to a large extent, a matter
of practicing a specific task for
a total of around 10,000 hours.
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3. My ‘time on the mainframe’
about 34 projects
multiplied by 3 months
each by 20 days per
month by 8 hours per
day at 20% efficiency
equals ...
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4. Knowledge vs. Time
K
How much you think you know
How much you actually know
t
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3,264 hours

5. 20% Efficiency?
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6. Mostly Effective
Most performance test efforts
are effective ...
“Testing was completed”
“NFRs were met”
“We survived go-live”
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7. Rarely Efficient
Performance test efforts are
rarely efficient ...
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8. Lossiness
(lossy) characterized by or
caused by dissipation of
energy.
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9. Tools
“We waste a LOT of energy on
tools and people to execute
the performance test effort.
1,000 VU license = enough to feed a village
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10. Why so Much?
Tools are driving the process!
We are suffering from market
distortion ...
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11. Perfect Competition
“Describes markets such that
no participants are large
enough to have the market
power to set the price of a
homogeneous product.
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12. Imperfectly Competitive
At first there were few sellers
and now there are many
sellers with highly
differentiated products ...
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13. At first there were few
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14. And now there are many
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15. Selenium vs. QTP
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16. JMeter vs. LoadRunner
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17. Cloud Impact?
Force Multiplier
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18. Biggest Drivers for Tools
Are costs, open and
ext endable languages,
integration with popular
test frameworks and
continuous delivery and or
deployment, access to high
level APIs, cross platform
and ease of use.
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19. How to select the right tool?
Effective & Efficient
Almost as important as the job itself.
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20. Think about the price
and cost effectiveness
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21. Think about the support
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22. Think about the integration
Everything from source
control, monitoring,
communications, alerting,
deployment and beyond.
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23. Think about the protocol
HTTP 1999
XHR 2008
WebSocket 2011
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24. Environments
We spend a LOT of time
waiting for test environments
to be provisioned, patched,
restarted or deployed.
environments {start|stop|restart}
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25. Increased Burn Rate
The rate at which hours
(allocated to a project) are
being used ...
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26. Increased Complexity
Solving for simultaneous equations
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27. Analysis Paralysis
“Are we writing scripts to
launch a space shuttle?
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28. Extinct by Instinct
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29. Trending Now
“Let’s be *more* agile and
promote an iterative cycle that
emphasizes working products
over product specifications ...
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30. In the Future
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31. Future is Now
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32. Fire Fighting in Production
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33. Replicating in Stage
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34. A DSL for Test Plans
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35. Scaled out in 5 minutes
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36. Results Shared in Real Time
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37. Short & Sharp Tests
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38. In 2013
“We have significantly
reduced performance test
costs and increased efficiency
of performance test efforts.
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39. Questions?
contact: Tim Koopmans
locate: Melbourne, Australia
email: tim@altentee.com
blog: altentee.com
follow: @90kts
Gridinit
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