2nd in the "Rewriting the Rules of Perfomance Testing" series. Neil Gunther, leader in advance capacity planning and performance testing joins Dan Bartow to discuss why and how testing early, often, and with accurate data to transform is the only approach to optimal performance readiness.

1. SOASTA Webinar Series
CLOUD TESTING RULE 2:
Rewriting the Rules of Run More Tests and
Find More Issues
Performance Testing

2. Why Can’t We Test More?
We’ve Been Distracted
Process-mired, code-based test development
Sourcing, provisioning, &making-do with
marginal load generation infrastructure
Digging through big data
haystacks seeking information

3. Why Can’t We Test More?
We’ve Been Distracted
Time-consuming pre-and-post test activities result in projects like this
TEST BUILDING
HW Setup
TEST
ANALYZE
FIX
RETES
T
REPEAT?
TIME
Leading to missed deadlines and risky releases

4. Why Can’t We Test More?
Projects should focus on fixing issues found by actually testing
BUILD BUILD BUILD
TEST TEST TEST
ANALYZE ANALYZE ANALYZE
FIX FIX FIX
NEXT… NEXT… NEXT…
TIME
..and eliminate extraneous activities that interfere

5. Why Can’t We Test More?
OLD = It’s all about PREPARATION
Traditional Approaches
TEST BUILDING HW Setup TEST ANALYZE FIX RETEST REPEAT?
TIME
BUILD H
W
TEST H
W
TEST H
W
TEST H
W
TEST H
W
TEST
Extra
ANALYZE ANALYZE ANALYZE ANALYZE ANALYZE
S FIX S S S S
time!
FIX FIX FIX FIX
e e e e e
t t t t t
u u u u u
p p p p p
Eliminate constraints and TEST MORE, at SCALE, in LESS TIME
NEW = It’s all about RESULTS (lots of them)

6. Let’s Dig In…
Delivering more results may require a Mindset Reset
 Quickly build tests with a visual programming interface
 Leverage the cloud for testing at unlimited scale
 Run tests anytime on your schedule
And, (the really hard part)
Know what to do with the DATA (and there is a LOT)

7. Let’s Look at the NEW RULES
How to Transform Data Into Information
Dr. Neil Gunther

23. Q&A
Questions & Answers will post on CloudLink:
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Next “Changing the Rules” Webinar: Nov. 15
“Test On Your Schedule Across the Lifecycle”
with Matt Heusser
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