My team has recently taken on the challenge of conducting performance testing for our product. Performance and web-app security testing have been both been put under the same umbrella. That’s great–lots of efficiencies to be gained from our different skills, but at the same time, I’m no expert in either field. I have a perf test engineer who is good with Empirix e-Load, and he’s teaching me how we do things. We have a couple of books (including this one), and we’ve received some tool-specific training, but none of it has been enough as yet to convince me that we’re doing everything we can to test page load times accurately.

This is also one of the reasons we haven’t been posting much. With new responsibility comes new drains on time. (more…)