{"id":684,"date":"2015-09-01T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:01:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T01:01:11","slug":"5-load-testing-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/5-load-testing-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"#5 Load Testing Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Open Source Load Testing presentation\u00a0http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/richardfriedman\/open-source-load-testing<\/p>\n<p>Obligatory list of load failures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Visit Fail for Septa:\u00a0http:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2015\/07\/20\/septa-suspends-pope-pass-sales-technical-difficulties\/<\/li>\n<li>HealthCare.gov: too many links&#8230; here is a google search\u00a0https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=HealthCare.gov+fail<\/li>\n<li>Your story &#8211; we have all had one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And as we start the tick up towards holiday season and soon to start the code freeze\u00a0phase we are reminded work through our checklist. \u00a0In a good review post at <a href=\"http:\/\/gotgroove.com\/ecommerce-blog\/analysis-strategy\/ecommerce-holiday-preparation-prepping-your-online-store\/\">gotgroove.com<\/a>\u00a0#1 on that list should be stress testing.<\/p>\n<p>For most,\u00a0the priority of load testing falls to the bottom of the list of things to do. \u00a0Perhaps it is\u00a0in your plan, but as the last thing on the list, there is a good chance it will get a quick review instead of a deep analysis. \u00a0Underlying the majority of enterprise IT budgets is an upside-down triangle. \u00a0At the top our $$$ go to the operational wellness while at the bottom $ is the sunk cost of activities to push to production.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Investment in Operations and Development.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0Managing OpEx budgets, the biggest product spends come in running your day to day. \u00a0Load Tests\u00a0of large sizes are not daily operations. \u00a0There are many ways to dissect technical op-ex budgets, but at a gross level, I would say it flows People, Run (Systems and Services), Monitor (Systems\/Network\/Storage), Deploy (Continuous Delivery), Test (QA), Load Testing.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Invest as Needed.<\/strong> <\/em>\u00a0If we invest as needed then we will invest heavily in items that impact our day to day, less into the one-time activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a CTO and VP Engineering, I have yet to see load testing truly integrated into the agile process. \u00a0\u00a0Instead, it is more common to be integrated into the tail of the launch process.\u00a0\u00a0The common issue with late\u00a0phase integration as a\u00a0serious performance flaw becomes uncovered \u00a0we could have a major setback, and then very delayed projects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>After QA, During Beta Launch.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 It is 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