Tuesday, October 7, 2014

How Performance requirements gathering plays a major Role


Performance requirements gathering is an important phase in performance testing life cycle.With out proper requirements, there is no meaning of testing.

Firstly we should understand Why,What,How and When we are testing. Here are the details that should be taken into consideration.

Scope - What is the scope of performance testing/business flows/aspects to consider and Why should we test

SLAs - What are the SLAs defined.Pass/Fail criteria

Application - What application and What is it about

Environment - Which environment is available for Testing and is it replica of production

Architecture - What are different components of architecture and how is the communication

Metrics - What are different types of metrics to be captured.

Toolset- What are different tools available for testing/monitoring/Analysis/Reporting.

Timelines - When is the window for the engagement

PoC- Point of contacts from different teams

Sharepath - place holder for documents/scripts/results

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