Talk:Software performance testing

Concerning placing your name inside an article
I assume that Brian.a.wilson is the author of several sections in this article. If so, I would just like to say that it is not necessary to place links to your profile within the article itself; a look at the article's history will suffice. I only mention this because it gives the impression that you are advertising, which I am sure that you are not. As such, I hope that you will not mind that I have taken the liberty to remove your name from the seemingly random places where it appears.

Thanks, Brian, and keep contributing!

Link Removed
The following link was no longer valid (404), so I removed it. Additionally, from the URL and title, this *appeared* to be marketing rather than informational, but it's impossible to be sure since the page is gone now.


 * Performance Testing Services

Hardware/software
It is claimed that: Performance testing almost invariably concludes that it is the software (rather than hardware) that contribute most to delays (bottlenecks) in processing data.

In my experience it's rare that redesigning the software is considered in the scope of the same project as redesigning the hardware. Therefore I'd like to know the basis for this claim. (Subtext: It's bogus.) Grotendeels Onschadelijk 03:29, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Since no one seems to be able to elucidate or substantiate this claim, I am removing it. Grotendeels Onschadelijk 00:51, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Maybe I should offer an explanation of why I think the above claim is false. I accept that in most cases where a performance problem in a system arises, this problem is solved by modifying the software. However, this is not necessarily caused by the fact that the software was designed poorly, but quite often by the fact that it is easier to modify software than to modify hardware. Therefore it is often cheaper to work around a hardware design problem in the software than to change the hardware design, particularly if the hardware design has already gone into production. Grotendeels Onschadelijk 01:17, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Microsoft advert?
There is probably too many reference to Microsoft and its services/software (links, processes), when this company is even not the leader in the performance testing area. It seems to me that the article is simply an advert for this company. This article should amended to be neutral. 14:45, 03 August 2009 (GMT) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Olauret (talk • contribs)

Much of the text of this article is lifted from the referenced Microsoft paper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ff1959 (talk • contribs) 09:39, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

nope — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.91.201.57 (talk) 10:18, 27 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Which portions of the text are lifted from which paper? --Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:37, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

What about this sentence? "Without such instrumentation one might have to have someone crouched over Windows Task Manager at the server to see how much CPU load the performance tests are generating (assuming a Windows system is under test)."Dominika Fabčinová (talk) 08:10, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Four years after the fact it's difficult to tell which of these came first. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:01, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Section for internet performance testing in types of performance testing
Internet performance testing is one of the emerging trends in the performance testing field. It is briefly discussed in the 'Performance specifications' section but I thought it would be good if its put in the types of testing section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Venkat sravan (talk • contribs) 09:36:07 2012-06-14 (UTC)

Revision as of 23:30, 14 December 2014 - Removed content from Overview
“It is, recording and reporting usage of available resources by a software application while performing an action in controlled conditions.” The statement better explains the idea of Software Performance TESTING, Testing being the key word here; The paragraph you are referring talks about building a software system with optimum performance; and that is certainly important. Anubhav Bansal 04:43, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Invalid external link
The link to Nitish Thakur's paper (reference #1) gets you redirected to a generic IBM page. Swartik (talk) 21:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)