The sequestration has hit a lot of organizations hard, and IT intensive programs aren’t ducking the proverbial bullet. In the decade since 9-11, organizations had more money and resources to give to development teams to fix their application’s performance issues. But now that the nation is trying to fix its fiscal woes, every day and dollar counts.
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How to Build the Best Action Plan for your Application
Applications are built on thousands, millions, maybe even tens of millions, lines of code. They are based on specific architecture gathering technologies, frameworks, and databases set up with their own specific architecture. If you have an action plan to improve your application on a specific issue, what will be your strategy? Do you select one problem related to quality or take the opportunity to refactor part of your application? You know about issues coming from end users, but how do you address those inside the structure of your application? I remember meeting with development teams and management who were trying to find the root cause of performance issues, as delays … Read More
Don’t Wait For Load Testing to Find Performance Issues
We all know testing is an essential step in the application development process. But sometimes testing can feel like your team is just throwing bricks against a wall and seeing when the wall breaks. Wouldn’t it make more sense to be measuring the integrity of the wall itself before chucking things at it? Consider load testing, where you synthesize a bunch of virtual users and throw them at the application. You’re looking to see how well the application deals with the elasticity and scalability demands. If your team is doing load testing without first testing the structural integrity of the application, however, they’re putting the cart before the horse. Before … Read More