Realizing Continuous Performance Management Best Practices

Author Steven Haines examines the ways in which development and QA can realistically achieve a state of continuous performance management by using:

• Test-driven development and continuous integration best practices
• Build-system integration and automated testing
• Quest solutions for unit, integration and system performance analysis

Steven dispels the myth that enabling this solution is risky and time consuming. The paper provides a step-by-step overview of how to implement continuous performance management and how it can help IT achieve performance goals early-on in the application lifecycle. Learn how to:

• Achieve shorter development cycles, faster triaging and improved confidence in application deployment
• Apply the principles of performance testing to the practice of continuous integration 
• Integrate performance analysis into unit testing including code, memory and test coverage
• Run performance diagnostics as part of integration and load simulation
• Identify and resolve performance issues earlier rather than later so they never get out of hand