http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sat, 25 May 2013 04:34:09 -0400 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61511 Load and stress testing tools are like desktop publishing software. It is pretty easy to create a crappy newsletter. Your "Healthy Mistrust" blog highlights one of the downfalls possible. Your blog includes screen shots of performance results from one...]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:27:52 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:27:52 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:27:52 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 fcohen 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61511 Nearly all of the monitoring tools you mentioned are completely useless (high overhead, limited coverage,...) which proves my point that those building performance test tools should first learn how to performance engineer their own software and...]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:16:44 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:16:44 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:16:44 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 wlouth 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61511 Test tools that generate load against the front end of an application and then report the bumps have their usefulness. Sometimes the test surfaces a performance bottleneck. I am all for these kind of bump reports.

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