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March 5, 2008 By Jack Vaughan
Agile development styles centred on continuous integration are leading to new ways of thinking about various parts of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Requirements gathering and project management have been affected. Now, the Agile emphasis on continuous processes is being heard more widely in performance testing and management. Continuous performance management -- or continuous performance testing -- applies the principles of performance testing to the practice of continuous integration, according to Steven Haines, Java domain expert at Quest Software. Quest and Haines have fashioned a tool kit, now in beta and available to the Quest community, that embodies some of the ideas of continuous performance management. Performance testing should be integrated into automated continuous integration builds, Haines and others advise. That means having tight test script incorporation within a continuous integration server. ... Test software vendors have discussed the need for a continuous form of validation of SOA applications, which constantly change. In addition, SOA tester Mindreef discusses a regimen of continuous validation that is part testing and part performance.... View Full Article |
