How To Test Software Performance
486What are the best types of software performance testing? What does the performance of a system really mean and how should we measure it? Performance testing is something of a black art. Performance testing tools aren’t enough alone to define a performance testing strategy.
In this episode, Dave Farley of Continuous Delivery offers some performance testing basics. Advice to guide your strategy and to guide you to adopt a stronger software engineering stance whatever your performance testing needs.
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