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Create Tests to Identify Points of Failure and Bottlenecks

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Author: Scott
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Summary:

There are at least as many ways of identifying bottleneck suspects as there are people who’ve ever observed something being slow when working on a computer. It’s our job as performance testers to identify as many of those suspects as possible and then sort, categorize, verify, test, exploit, and potentially help resolve them. This How-To demonstrates some common methods to create tests that identify bottlenecks.

Objectives:

* Learn how to design bottleneck exploiting tests by eliminating ancillary activities
* Learn how to design bottleneck exploiting tests by modifying test data
* Learn how to design bottleneck exploiting tests by adding related activities
* Learn how to design bottleneck exploiting tests by changing navigation paths

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