Scalability and Performance Testing of Server Software

Summary:

To derive a good testing strategy out of scalability and performance testing, there needs to be testable and measurable requirements. Often they are ambiguous and there is a need to go with certain assumptions to perform testing. This paper explains those certain assumptions and explains the procedure for:

Choosing the right product configuration
Choosing the right resources
Utilizing the benchmarking and scalability results

About the author

Srinivasan Desikan

Srinivasan Desikan is the director of quality engineering at Siebel Systems, Inc., in Bangalore, India. Srinivasan has more than seventeen years experience in test automation, test management, test processes, and in setting up test teams from scratch. Srinivasan has delivered talks on testing at several international testing conferences, and delivers lectures and tutorials regularly at several universities and companies in India. Srinivasan has co-authored the book titled "Software Testing--Effective Methods, Tools and Techniques" published by Tata McGraw-Hill, India. He is currently co-authoring "Comprehensive guide to software Testing" to be published by Pearson Education in July 2005. Some of his interesting articles can be accessed at www.StickyMinds.com. Srinivasan holds a post-graduate degree in computer applications (MCA) from Pondicherry Engineering College and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Bharathidasan University.