Building a Performance Testing Strategy
Tie all your skills together into a repeatable strategy: define objectives, choose test types, set entry/exit criteria, and embed testing into the delivery lifecycle.
Why a Strategy?
Ad-hoc tests answer one-off questions. A performance testing strategy is a written plan that aligns testing with business goals, so effort is consistent, repeatable, and trusted across teams.
Start With Objectives
Begin from business and user needs. Objectives might be: support 10k concurrent users, keep checkout p95 under 800ms, or survive a 3x flash-sale spike. Everything else flows from these.
All lessons in this course
- Crafting Realistic Workloads
- Reporting to Stakeholders
- Scaling Performance Testing Efforts
- Building a Performance Testing Strategy