Now on MSDN: patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications

You can now find our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications on MSDN in HTML.  It's the same guidance we hosted on CodePlex.  CodePlex was our channel for agile release of the guidance.  Once we baked the guidance, we ported it to MSDN.

Contents at a Glance
Here's the

• Landing Page
• Foreword By Alberto Savoia
• Foreword By Rico Mariani
• Introduction

Chapters

• Chapter 1 – Fundamentals of Web Application Performance Testing
• Chapter 2 – Types of Performance Testing
• Chapter 3 – Risks Addressed Through Performance Testing
• Chapter 4 – Web Application Performance Testing Core Activities
• Chapter 5 – Coordinating Performance Testing with an Iteration-Based Process
• Chapter 6 – Managing an Agile Performance Test Cycle
• Chapter 7 – Managing the Performance Test Cycle in a Regulated (CMMI) Environment
• Chapter 8 – Evaluating Systems to Increase Performance-Testing Effectiveness
• Chapter 9 – Determining Performance Testing Objectives
• Chapter 10 – Quantifying End-User Response Time Goals
• Chapter 11 – Consolidating Various Types of Performance Acceptance Criteria
• Chapter 12 – Modeling Application Usage
• Chapter 13 – Determining Individual User Data and Variances
• Chapter 14 – Test Execution
• Chapter 15 – Key Mathematic Principles for Performance Testers
• Chapter 16 – Performance Test Reporting Fundamentals
• Chapter 17 – Load-Testing Web Applications
• Chapter 18 – Stress-Testing Web Applications

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