Continuous Integration Gets Performance Testing Radar

As companies embrace continuous integration (CI) and fast release cycles, a serious problem has emerged in the development pipeline: Conventional performance testing is the new bottleneck. Every load testing environment is actually a highly complex simulation assumed to be a model of the intended production environment. System performance testing is so complex that the cost of modifying test scripts and hardware has become a liability for meeting CI schedules. One reaction to this situation is to treat performance testing as a checkbox item, but that exposes the new application to unknown performance idiosyncrasies in production.

In this webinar, Neil Gunther (Performance Dynamics Company) and Sai Subramanian (Cognizant Technology Solutions) will present a new type of model that is not a simulation, but instead acts like continuous radar that warns developers of potential performance and scalability issues during the CI process. This radar model corresponds to a virtual testing framework that precludes the need for developing performance test scripts or setting up a separate load testing environment. Far from being a mere idea, radar methodology is based on a strong analytic foundation that will be demonstrated by examining a successful case study.

Broadcast Date and Time: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, at 11 am Pacific